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The continued drop in price of lithium batteries means that more than 40% of container ships could be battery-powered by 2030. Credit: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg/Getty
The global shipping industry could cut carbon dioxide emissions and levels of other air pollutants by powering ships with batteries rather than fuel oil1.
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01973-9
Kersey, J., Popovich, N. D. & Phadke, A. A. Nature Energy https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-022-01065-y (2022).
Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
University of Notre Dame (ND)
NOTRE DAME, IN, United States
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