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California cap-and-trade spending doubles to $1.4 billion in 2018; xEV rebates, affordable housing, wildfire prevention, public transit

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billion in new funding last year went to projects across all of California’s 58 counties—almost double the $720 million spent in 2017. An annual ' tracking the progress of California Climate Investments, released by the California Air Resources Board and the California Department of Finance, finds that nearly $1.4 Planting more than 3.6

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UCSD, South 8 team report improved liquefied-gas electrolytes for Li-metal batteries

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Improvements to a class of battery electrolyte first introduced in 2017—liquefied gas electrolytes—could pave the way to replacing the graphite anode with a lithium-metal anode. cycling efficiency reported in the 2017 Science paper, and an 85% cycling efficiency for lithium metal anodes with a conventional (liquid) electrolyte.

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California Energy Commission approves plans to invest nearly $500M in electricity R&D and alternative fuels

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This is the second EPIC investment plan and covers the years 2015-2017. Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric Co. million grant to the Center for Transportation and the Environment to develop and deploy fuel cell hybrid electric walk-in delivery vans. EPIC plans must be approved every three years.

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Learn About the Candidates Running for 2023 President-Elect

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Tom Coughlin Harry Who Photography Coughlin is founder and president of Coughlin Associates , in San Jose, Calif., He has been granted six patents. She served as the 2017–2018 director of IEEE Region 6 and was the 2019–2021 IEEE secretary. Senior Member Kathleen Kramer Nominated by the IEEE Board of Directors.

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New EVA officers for a new year

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She has also served as president of the Electric Vehicle Association of San Diego , now the largest EVA chapter in the country. “I Kirsch joined Electric Car Insider in 2017 as the Managing Tour Director, now Vice President of Business Development, for the Electric Car Guest Drive national tour.

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ARB report: 1,600 fuel cell vehicles in California, 29 stations active; need to accelerate station deployment

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The report also identified 29 currently Open-Retail hydrogen fueling stations from as far south as San Diego, to the coastline in Santa Barbara, and as far to the northeast as Truckee. ARB expects continued expansion of the fueling market, and corresponding growth in deployed FCEVs, to continue throughout the rest of 2017 and beyond.

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DOE releases three reports showing strong growth in US fuel cell and hydrogen market

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Daimler, Ford, and Nissan joined forces to develop a common fuel cell system and launch commercial FCEVs as early as 2017. Several major automakers, including Honda, Toyota, and Hyundai, are committed to producing commercial quantities in the 2015-2017 timeframe and reaffirmed those commitments in 2012. Light duty vehicles.

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