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Holcim orders 1000 Mercedes-Benz battery-powered trucks

26 January 2024, Published under Cement News

Holcim will deploy a total of 1000 units of Mercedes-Benz Trucks’ new eActros 600 battery-powered electric truck, which premiered in October 2023, to its European fleet. This enlargement of its electric truck fleet will contribute to Holcim’s 2030 goal of reducing by 24 per cent its scope 3 downstream transportation emissions per tonne of material transported versus a 2020 baseline. Holcim aims for 30 per cent of its heavy-duty truck purchases or contracts to be zero-emission by 2030. Kar...

Siam Cement receives world's largest battery production facility

28 June 2023, Published under Cement News

Rondo Energy, in partnership with Siam Cement Group (SCG),has announced plans for the world's largest battery production facility of any kind at 90GWh/year, with 2.4GWh/year already online. This is a game-changer in the world of decarbonisation technologies, resulting in carbon savings equivalent to removing 4m cars from the road each year (or adding 2m EVs), claims Rondo Energy. "Rondo Energy, developer of the Rondo Heat Battery, announced it has partnered with Siam Cement Group to ...