Tag: sustainability
What’s happening in the US electric vehicle industry?
USAin electric vehicle As the industry faces lower-than-expected demand, leading battery manufacturers are reducing their investments in North America and starting to lay off workers. For example, LG Energy Solution…
Climate money is not dead
Berlin It is probably the height of anger over the possible industrial electricity price that emerged over the weekend. “Don’t be fucking serious,” mocked Fridays for Future activist Luisa Neubauer.…
In the Handelsblatt live stream: Circular Economy as a success factor
Dusseldorf The European Union wants to be climate neutral by 2050. In order to achieve this goal, the circular economy is essential. By recycling, repairing and reusing goods that have…
Natural gas tax increase is supported by all ministries
Natural gas is becoming more expensive again Natural gas refinery on the Persian Gulf: The usual VAT rate will be due again in Germany. (Photo: dpa) Berlin According to information…
Siemens Gamesa largely stops selling new turbines
Siemens Gamesa The turbine manufacturer is deep in crisis. (Photo: Siemens Gamesa) Husum, Munich At the Husum Wind trade fair in recent days, the major wind power manufacturers presented their…
Strategy paper warns EU against China dependence for batteries for electric cars
Battery recycling EU demand for lithium-ion batteries, fuel cells and electrolyzers needed in hydrogen technology will increase sharply in the coming years. (Photo: dpa) Madrid The Spanish EU Council Presidency…
Siemens Gamesa largely stops selling new turbines
Siemens Gamesa The turbine manufacturer is deep in crisis. (Photo: Siemens Gamesa) Husum, Munich At the Husum Wind trade fair in recent days, the major wind power manufacturers presented their…
Warsaw plans 79 small nuclear power plants by 2038
Illustration of GE Hitachi’s BWRX-300 nuclear power plant Poland wants to use modular reactors as an important part of its energy transition. (Photo: Hitachi) Frankfurt Oder Clean energy, independent of…
EU renovation obligation – new cost shock for homeowners?
Renovate or not? Many homeowners wonder what rules and costs they will incur. (Photo: imago images/Sabine Gudath) Brussels, Berlin The anger of some homeowners over the heating law recently passed…
Despite the crisis, Vattenfall wants to build a mega wind farm in the North Sea
Dusseldorf Far in the sea, north of the small island of Borkum, the Swedish energy company Vattenfall is building a wind farm at sea that will supply 1.7 million households…
Haniel boss Thomas Schmidt is leaving – the search for a successor is underway
Dusseldorf Haniel boss Thomas Schmidt will leave the Duisburg family company. The supervisory board and the manager, who has been in office since mid-2019, decided by “mutual agreement” not to…
Major strike at three US car manufacturers
Washington, New York In the USA, the auto industry is threatened with a large-scale strike, which the United Auto Workers (UAW) union has called for this Friday. Two years after…
Danger to Biden’s recovery? Three US car companies face a major strike
Washington, New York Two years after the supply chain crisis in which American car factories had to cut production, the industry is facing the next blow. The United Auto Workers…
German environmental aid criticizes the “mania for demolition” of buildings
Energy & Climate According to DUH, CO2 emissions are reduced by a third when a building is renovated compared to a new one. (Photos: Getty Images, Imago, dpa; Montage: Handelsblatt)…
This start-up wants to get aircraft powered by ships into the air
Frankfurt Almost all of the great inventions in aviation began with an initially bold vision. But Hans-Georg Kinsky and Markus Steinke have not yet lost their realism – despite all…
Prices for solar modules fall to record lows
Production by Meyer Burger in Freiberg European companies see themselves under pressure in the fight against Chinese competition. (Photo: IMAGO/Sylvio Dittrich) Dusseldorf The warning is drastic: “If nothing happens now,…
Prices for solar modules fall to record lows
Dusseldorf The warning is drastic: “If nothing happens now, there is a great risk that European solar producers will have massive problems in the next few months, and some will…
These specialists are in demand at top companies
Concept of the “New Class” from BMW at the IAA The new electric vehicles show how digitalization and electromobility are changing the automotive industry – and with it jobs. (Photo:…
Suppliers want to do business with the “perfect engine”.
Stuttgart, Munich At the beginning of the electric era, automotive suppliers were very happy. They landed a lot of prestigious contracts. For example, ZF equipped the EQC, the first electric…
Suppliers want to do business with the “perfect engine”.
Stuttgart, Munich At the beginning of the electric era, automotive suppliers were very happy. They landed a lot of prestigious contracts. For example, ZF equipped the EQC, the first electric…