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A CLOSCA chegou a Portugal. 

The bike helmet for smart citizens!

Xkuty One - Electric Bike

The new sustainable mobility! 

No noise, No fuel, No emissions!

This is the dawning of the Age of Lithium Lithium is ‘the new gasoline’, it’s impossible to ignore this versatile metal’s potential as a game-changer for the global transportation sector.

EVs account for 25 per cent of annual lithium ion battery production — up from 14 per cent two years earlier — and that’s projected by Deutsche Bank to jump to 38 per cent by 2025.

“Welcome to the Lithium-ion Age,” forecasts demand for EV batteries will increase fivefold over the next decade — and global lithium demand will increase from 181 kilotonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent to 535 kilotonnes by 2025.

“Electricity storage”

Lithium ion batteries containing 3x the energy of those first batteries. Moreover, costs have collapsed particularly over the last five years during which batteyr pack prices have fallen from $1,300 per kWh in 2011 to below $250/kWh today, noting that General Motors is buying batteries from LG Chem for the all electric Chevy Bolt at an amazingly low price of $147/kWh!

Further technology improvements our coming our way as well as a clear cost roadmap towards $100/kWh by 2020. At these levels, lithium-ion will play a massively important role in our lives. 

Let’s not forget the annual market for lead acid batteries (starter motors for combustion engines, backup power, etc) at 350GWh per year is 5x greater than lithium-ion at 70GWh per annum, so the opportunity is enormous!

That all said the real growth opportunity for lithium ion batteries is not the replacement of lead-acid batteries for starter motors in the automobile or even the hybridization of the automobile but instead its full electrification. The Toyota Prius’ battery is 4.4kWh in size as opposed to the Tesla S100D which has a 100kWh battery. That said the average electric vehicle (EV) uses 40kWh and it looks like this year some 700,000 EVs will be sold worldwide this year. That is close to 30GWh of new lithium ion batteries going into EVs this year. And the market for EVs is going to expand quickly. How quickly we do not know but what is clear is that technology advances such as sprinkling silicon on the anode side of the battery will continue to improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries and with a whole range of exciting new EVs coming to the market in the next years it looks like a very bright future ahead for lithium-ion batteries.

Car-Free Streets!

This is a big trend for cities.

“Paris, Mexico City, Madrid and Athens to ban diesel vehicles by 2025

Four world cities make radical commitment at C40 Mayors Summit in Mexico City in a bid to combat urban air pollution

Mayors from Paris, Madrid and Athens have said they will ban diesel vehicles from their cities' roads by 2025 in a bid to drive down urban air pollution. In a commitment announced yesterday at the C40…”

Autolib Paris é um bom exemplo do novo paradigma da mobilidade sustentável. 

A economia da partilha ao serviço de todos com menos custos para todos, sem combustível e sem emissões.

Aqui está um exemplo para reduzirmos consideravelmente o nosso défice comercial na importação de energia. Mais de 60% do nosso défice comercial é importação de energia. Dá que pensar, não dá?! Se reduzirmos para metade a importação de energia, conseguimos com essa poupança sustentar o pagamento de mais de metade do valor dos juros da nossa dívida pública.

De que estamos á espera?

O que é a norma Euro 6?

Os congestionamentos de trânsito roubam-nos anos de vida. Provocam uma poluição enorme que nos mata aos bocadinhos…

Está na hora de mudarmos a nossa mentalidade. Acabar com os congestionamentos depende somente da nossa atitude. As infra estruturas não aguentam a acumulação de tanto carro nas nossas cidades. A solução passa pela utilização dos transportes públicos sustentáveis e transportes partilhados sustentáveis. As frotas de autocarros convencionais devem ser substituídas por autocarros eléctricos. Precisamos de maior eficiência energética nos nossos transportes.

No doubt. 

Change is on the way.

Paris officials have announced ambitious air quality improvement plans which involve removing many polluting diesel-powered vehicles from city streets.

No Combustion-Engine Cars Sold in Germany After 2030, Parliament Says...

At the current 2016 Paris Auto Show, virtually every major auto manufacturer is showcasing new electric vehicles. PARIS — For perhaps the first time at a major international auto salon, the stars of the Paris Motor Show are electric cars.