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Unravelling of relationship between gold and real interest rates could be a paradigm shift.

Spain presented a compromise text that would keep Euro 6 test conditions and emissions limits for cars and vans, but they will be lower for heavy trucks and buses.

Indians will probably sell a record amount of used gold jewelry this year to take advantage of a surge in domestic prices of the precious metal, according to the World Gold Council.

Renault's chief executive said on Friday the European Union's proposed Euro 7 emissions rules for vehicles would distract the auto industry from its path to electrification and thanked the Italian government for opposing them.

• Many of Britain’s auto manufacturers and importers railed against the government’s decision to return the ban on the sale of new gasoline and diesel vehicles to 2035 from 2030, but Toyota welcomed the move.
• The decision announced by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Wednesday brings the U.K. back into line with the European Union and other global markets like the U.S.
• The industry’s indignation ...

TANAKA Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. (Head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Group CEO: Koichiro Tanaka), which operates an industrial precimetals business as a core company of TANAKA PreciMetals, announced today that it has signed a technical assistance agreement with Chengdu Guangming Paite PreciMetal Co., Ltd., an affiliated company in China, in the area of fuel cell electrode catalyst manufacturing ...

Bosch is aiming to buy back and recycle its fuel cell stacks at the end of their service life. The technology group is primarily targeting the recovery of so-called platinum group metals (PGMs) that are processed in fuel cells.

South Africa quadrupled its solar PV imports from China in the first half of 2023.
A new report shows that 3.4GW of solar panels were imported – which, at peak production, is equivalent to the generation capacity of Duvha or Matla power stations.
South Africa saw the second-largest percentage increase in imports, after Europe.

China's woes are weighing on critical metals, said Matt Watson, founder of Precious Metals Commodity Management.

“In real-world terms, this means that we can have a more durable fuel cell that will provide high fuel economy over a longer lifetime,” said Jacob Spendelow, a scientist with the Los Alamos National Laboratory team that described its results in the journal Advanced Materials. “This work demonstrates that we can get rid of conventional carbon-based catalyst supports, eliminating the degradation ...