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ECS announces 2023-2024 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship recipients

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Yaocai Bai and Yuzhang Li have received the 2023–2024 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowships for projects in green energy technology. Through the ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship, Dr. Bai will address binder removal, the key challenge associated with direct recycling of battery materials today.

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2016 Toyota Mirai Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car: First Photos From Test Drive

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The 2016 Toyota Mirai is getting a major launch just before this week''s Los Angeles Auto Show. It''s clear Toyota considers this a vehicle every bit as seminal as its very first Prius hybrid of 1997.

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ECS and Toyota North America announce 2016-2017 Fellowship winners for projects in green energy technology

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The ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship Selection Committee has selected three recipients who will receive a minimum of $50,000 each for fellowships for projects in green energy technology. They will also receive a one-year complimentary ECS membership as well as the opportunity to present and/or publish their research with ECS.

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Toyota moves to expand mass-production of fuel cell stacks and hydrogen tanks towards ten-fold increase post-2020

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Toyota projects that global sales of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) will increase significantly after 2020 to at least 30,000 per year from today’s 3,000. This is one of the initiatives for the Plant Zero CO 2 Emissions Challenge in the Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050 announced in October 2015. Expanding sales.

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Toyota details design of fuel cell system in Mirai; work on electrode catalysts

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At the 2015 CES, Toyota announced royalty-free use of approximately 5,680 fuel-cell-related patents held globally, including critical technologies developed for the Mirai fuel cell vehicle. Toyota Fuel Cell System (TFCS). The 2016 paper by Hasegawa et al. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Earlier post.) FC Boost Converter.

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Applications open for ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship for innovative electrochemical research; alignment with Toyota’s needs

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ECS (The Electrochemical Society), in partnership with the Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA), a division of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. Winners will also receive a one-year complimentary ECS membership as well as the opportunity to present and publish their research with ECS.

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Wolfspeed wins 2016 R&D 100 Award for wide bandgap underhood inverter for HEVs/EVs

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Wolfspeed, A Cree Company, a leading global supplier of silicon carbide (SiC) power products, won a 2016 R&D 100 Award for its high-temperature, wide-bandgap (WBG) underhood inverter for hybrid and electric vehicles. The product operates by taking a two-level high and low input DC voltage (i.e.,

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