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DOE awarding $19.4M to 22 advanced vehicle technologies projects; Mercedes-Benz, GM Li-S battery projects

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These projects enable smaller, safer, lighter weight, and less expensive battery packs that ultimately will make electric vehicles more affordable. General Motors LLC. Research highly loaded sulfur cathodes and conductive carbon coated separators that enable high energy batteries. Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station.

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PNNL joins H2USA consortium on hydrogen infrastructure

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Toyota Motor North America, Mercedes-Benz USA, and other national laboratories such as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Argonne and Sandia. Participants in H 2 USA are working together to create ways to deliver affordable hydrogen fuel safely. That project is taking place with grocery chains in Texas, California and New York.

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DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

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Most of the projects will support the goals of EV Everywhere, an Energy Department program that aims to make PEVs as affordable and convenient as gasoline-powered vehicles by 2022. Demonstrate the joining of steel to aluminum and aluminum to carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites using the existing spot welding infrastructure.

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Visio.M partners present new lightweight EV; 13.5 kWh pack delivers ~100 mile range

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With only a 15 kW motor, the vehicle reaches a maximum speed of 120 km/h (75 mph). The electric motor in Visio.M The passenger compartment consists of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic, while aluminum is used in the front, rear and room frame. We wanted a car that is affordable and fun while driving. million (US$13.7

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ARPA-E selects 13 projects for $30M in awards to advance natural gas vehicle technologies

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MOVE projects aim to engineer light-weight, affordable natural gas tanks for vehicles as well as to develop natural gas compressors that can efficiently fuel a natural gas vehicle at home. Topping the award list is Ford Motor Company, with a $5.5-million Electromechanics - University of Texas at Austin. Ford Motor.

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Studying Climate Change with an Ice Radar Drone

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institutions— the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics and the Center for Remote Sensing and Integrated Systems (CReSIS) at the University of Kansas—had been developing improved IPR instruments, so IPR was ready to get on board. At the time, two U.S. Chris Philpot Here’s where Peregrine comes in.