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The Fuse | Critical Minerals Emerge as Key Area for Collaboration in U.S.-Japan-Philippines Summit - The Fuse
The recent U.S.-Japan-Philippines summit signifies a crucial step in fortifying regional stability amidst escalating challenges posed by China. While the summit agenda highlighted cooperation on emerging technologies, clean energy, and regional security, these discussions are only the start of U.S.-Japan-Philippines coordination on critical minerals in the modern era.
The Fuse | A Pony with Multiple Tricks: Why Transmission is America’s Energy Security Secret Advantage - The Fuse
America is amidst an energy revolution, and we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to control our destiny and realize an energy independent economy. One piece of overlooked infrastructure holds the key: high-voltage electric transmission.
The Fuse | Watch: Untangling the U.S. Government’s Many Critical Minerals and Materials Lists - The Fuse
Watch the SAFE Center for Critical Minerals Strategy's recent webinar which convened experts from the Department of the Interior, Energy, and Defense for a webinar examining the U.S. government’s many critical minerals and materials lists to get clarity about how various departments determine what gets included on these lists and how the different methodologies may change in the future.
The Fuse | Leader to Laggard with One Bad Bill: California Must Stay the Course on Safer, Cleaner Trucks - The Fuse
A bill that threatens to dramatically slow—and potentially halt—nearly a decade of innovation in autonomous trucking passed in the California Senate last night and will soon go to the Governor's desk for signing. Its ramifications extend far beyond California and the trucking industry.
The Fuse | One Year Later, The IRA Is Working - The Fuse
The Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law by President Biden on August 16, 2022, was the most significant signal of support for the transition to electric vehicles by the federal government. It serves as a critical part of the effort to achieve the Biden Administration’s goal that 50 percent of all new vehicles sold in 2030 are electric—an essential step toward reducing the United States’ dependence on oil.
The Fuse | Deep-Sea Mining: State of Play - The Fuse
Lying on the abyssal plains of oceans at depths of 3,500-6,000 meters, polymetallic nodules contain essential minerals used in the electric vehicle batteries fueling the energy transition. Enriched in manganese, nickel, copper, and cobalt, nodule fields of interest have been identified in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), Penrhyn Basin, and Peru Basin of the Pacific Ocean as well as in the north Indian Ocean. Reserves of certain critical minerals found in the CCZ alone have been estimated to surpass global terrestrial reserves.
The Fuse | Illinois Can Help Lead the Transportation Revolution - The Fuse
A transportation revolution is underway around the globe. The most significant shift in how people move from point A to point B since the transition from horse and buggy to Model T is beginning in earnest, bringing significant opportunities for Illinois and the Midwest.
The Fuse | Why Aluminum Matters to the Green Transition - The Fuse
By Joe Quinn Aluminum is one of the foundational industrial materials of modern society, integral to everything from passenger airplanes to kitchen appliances. Recent U.S. legislative incentives – lead by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) – to produce more solar panels, EVs, electrical charging infrastructure, and other clean energy transition products will increase the demand for […]
The Fuse | Data Holds the Key to a Lower Cost Energy Transition Across the Freight Sector - The Fuse
One of the most transformative roles freight data can play is to accelerate the sector’s energy transition. By bringing digital technologies to scale and leveraging digitalization, we can bridge the efficiency gaps in supply chains and optimize freight movement while achieving broader sustainability goals.
The Fuse | Germany’s Nationwide Transit Pass is a Model for Expanding Travel Freedom Throughout Europe - The Fuse
Germany is betting that making access to transit convenient and affordable will make it a more attractive mobility option and encourage people to shed their cars for most trips. And in doing so, is showing the way for the rest of Europe to transform their transit systems.
The Fuse | Rural EV Charging: Road Trip Reflections - The Fuse
With the heightened focus on rural EV charging networks following the announcement of the $2.5 billion Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) grant program, we would like to share this timely piece written by EC Director of Technical Services Matt Stephens-Rich about a road trip in his 2015 Nissan Leaf, and the lessons he learned about the state of rural EV charging in the United States.
The Fuse | Paris Bids Adieu to Shared E-Scooters, Giving Up Important Accessible, Sustainable Transportation Progress - The Fuse
Less than 8% of eligible Parisian voters showed up at the polls, voting to ban the popular—especially with younger people—transportation option which some have come to see as a nuisance. The use of a referendum to determine the fate of this mode of transportation was controversial, and certainly seems a blunt way to navigate a complex and evolving ecosystem of new mobility options.
The Fuse | Funding Roadwork Without Penalizing EVs - The Fuse
Transportation experts have eyed mileage-based user fees (MBUFs) for all vehicles on the road as an alternative to the gasoline tax. It would be fairer and more accurate than the flat annual fee some experts have proposed. With federal gas taxes static since 1993, road usage charges have been considered since 2005. Two decades and dozens of pilots later, policymakers are closer than ever before to identifying the best practices that can create a replacement policy for the gas tax.
The Fuse | Shifting Policymakers’ Perspectives: Transportation’s Vital Role in Society - The Fuse
A promising trend is taking shape among policymakers around the future of mobility. It’s a shift in perspective to better understand how inextricably linked transportation policies are to people’s lives and to the vitality of society’s long-term economic, equity, and sustainability goals.
The Fuse | Canada Invests in Supply Chain Digitalization, the U.S. Should Take Notice - The Fuse
Two weeks ago, Canada announced a C$50 million ($37 million in U.S. dollars) investment in supply chain digitalization that promises to significantly improve efficiency in the movement of goods, a strategy that the U.S. should take note of.
The Fuse | Critical Minerals, Critical Constraints - The Fuse
The Theory of Constraints was developed in 1984 by Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt, an Israeli business management consultant. Goldratt’s key insight was that every process has at any time one key constraint that limits production flow. Once the constraint is identified and resolved (through a combination of quick fix and more structural improvements), the next constraint becomes apparent and can be similarly attacked. The Theory of Constraints (ToC) has since become a powerful management tool frequently used in supply chain and manufacturing. ToC can also provide insight into the policy maker actions required to hit aggressive regulatory and production targets for EV sales.
The Fuse | 5 Trends That Could Transform How People Get Around Their Communities - The Fuse
Improving battery technology, innovative vehicle design, increased infrastructure connectivity, and changing attitudes toward transportation have all laid the groundwork for a potential revolution in how people get around the places they live and work. These five trends could transform how people get to jobs, shop, meet up with friends, and get their kids to school. But only if policymakers choose to support these trends and allow for greater innovation that increases the mobility choices people have when planning their trips.
The Fuse | More Electricity Production Key to EU’s Green Future - The Fuse
Most fears around Europe’s energy crisis have dissipated thanks to a warm winter and emergency measures adopted by the European Union (EU) and its members. EU countries seem to have some breathing room as they implement their ambitious plan to speed up the deployment of renewables and zero-emission vehicles
The Fuse | The UK Brings Its Shipping Rules Out of the Victorian Era and into the Digital Age - The Fuse
Lawmakers in the United Kingdom will soon bring much-needed change to trade laws that have remained largely the same since Queen Victoria sat on the throne, bringing the U.K.’s shipping rules into the electronic age and paving the way for the digital transformation of global trade.