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THE DEMAND for lithium from large batteries designed to store and redistribute electricity from the grid could surge if a British pilot project proves a success. It involves building Europe’s largest lithium battery, at southern England’s Leighton Buzzard at a cost of British Pounds GBP13.2 million (USD20.4 million).…

THE WESTERN Balkans has long been considered as having weak money laundering controls. But, Croatia’s accession to the European Union (EU) on July 1 and tighter legislation in Serbia has focused criminals’ attention on a smaller number of looser jurisdictions – Montenegro is one of those.…

BRAZIL is an innovative technical textile producer, declares a report from a senior São Paulo’s business school the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV), despite the sector experiencing teething problems as it expands. Looking at the Brazilian textile sector as a whole, the study estimates that 77% of investment into the sector during 2012 was used to buy innovative machinery – and the technical textile sector especially has a lot of demand to meet.…

The 9.5MW J920 FleXtra gas engine formally installed in May this year by the municipal utility Stadtwerke Rosenheim, in Bavaria, Germany, ticks off a number of important innovations. The largest gas engine yet developed by the Austrian company GE Jenbacher, the unit is seen by the company as an illustration of the role distributed energy is now playing in Germany’s ‘Energiewende’ – the country’s policy to halt all nuclear power by 2022 and replace it with natural gas, renewable energy, and greater use of energy efficient technologies.…

THE NEGOTIATIONS for a free trade agreement (FTA) between the European Union (EU) and the United States, which started this month in Washington DC (July 8), could push the world towards a truly global vehicle regulatory system for the first time, according to EU sources close to the negotiations.…

WHILE the European Union’s (EU) auto sector is happy to see its trade imbalance with South Korea decreasing two years into the controversial free trade agreement (FTA) linking these two vehicle-making powerhouses, European car makers complain that they are still struggling to access the South Korean market.…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and the industry will invest an additional Euro EUR1.4 billion (USD1.8 billion) in the second phase of a public-private partnership meant to expand the use of clean and efficient technologies in transport and energy, according to an announcement made this week by the European Commission, the EU’s executive body.…

Chinese government plans to extend license plate purchase restrictions from major to smaller cities may have fallen at the first hurdle amid public anger and indignation amongst Chinese automakers, who fear the measures may significantly impact their sales.

Speaking at an industry forum in Beijing earlier in July (July 10), Shi Jianhua, deputy secretary general of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), said the plans to extend restrictions to Chengdu, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Shenzhen, Shijiazhuang, Tianjin and Wuhan, could result in his members losing 400,000 units of sales each year.…

THE CITY government in the Russian capital Moscow is planning to introduce a comprehensive traffic control system, with the aim of reducing stifling congestion. Government statistics say the number of private cars in the city is growing by 300,000 each year and is currently estimated at 4.5 million, out of an 11.9 million population.…

Several years ago Mexico City (population 21 million in the metropolitan area) was at a traffic control crisis point, with a road network unable to accommodate the 6 million cars in the city (not to mention the 600 new vehicles hitting the streets daily), according to EMBARQ, the centre for sustainable transport of the World Research Institute.…