$110 mln for the development of an extraordinary energy storage

The Japanese investment fund SoftBank VisionFund, which in the past has already invested in start-ups such as Uber, Slack and WeWork, has recently invested USD 110 million in the Swiss Energy Vault start-up from the field of energy storage. The idea of the Swiss is based on the use of composite blocks and their potential […]

Tesla eats into market share of premium diesel cars in Norway

Sales of certain diesel models are in free-fall as Norwegians turn to Tesla and other makers of premium electric vehicles (EV), Rystad Energy finds. Norway is leading the global shift towards private EV transportation, with the highest EV ownership per capita in the world. More than one in two new cars sold in country this […]

Study: Fridays for Future will leave its mark

The Fridays for Future student climate protest movement will leave its mark on society, independent of its eventual duration, according to a working paper by the Institute for Social Movement Studies. The movement politicises and mobilises many young people that have had little contact with politics until now.

OSW: New US sanctions on Russia

On 2 August, the US Department of State informed that a second round of US sanctions had been imposed on Russia due to the Russian chemical attacks on the Skripal family in Salisbury in the United Kingdom in March 2018 – writes Marek Menkiszak, analyst of Center for Eastern Studies (OSW).

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