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Alliance AutoGas launches 5300-mile, 12-city Coast-to-Coast Clean Air Ride with converted F-150

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The converted F-150 will travel across the country from Kansas City to Seattle, WA, and back through the US, stopping along the way, to complete its journey in Jacksonville, FL, on 18 May, followed by a Homecoming event in Asheville, NC, on 23 May. Alliance’s new Engineered Conversion System, installed on a Bi-Fuel 2016 3.5-liter

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Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

Cars That Think

Leading the boom is the photovoltaic (PV) panel, which converts sunlight into electricity using semiconductors. Global solar energy supplies are growing rapidly, with nearly 10 times as much solar capacity installed today as there was a decade ago. The first utility-scale solar-thermal plants were built in the 1980s.

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Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

Cars That Think

Leading the boom is the photovoltaic (PV) panel, which converts sunlight into electricity using semiconductors. Global solar energy supplies are growing rapidly, with nearly 10 times as much solar capacity installed today as there was a decade ago. The first utility-scale solar-thermal plants were built in the 1980s.

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A closer look at why heat pumps are dominating EV HVAC systems

Charged EVs

If you want to heat up a space that is cold, there are a number of options, from burning a fuel to directly converting electricity into heat (i.e. cyclopentane), a potent greenhouse gas (e.g. To convert between the two, the ratio is 1 W = 3.412 BTU / hr. CFCs, or chlorofluorocarbons), or toxic (e.g.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Hot Shot Coanda-Stabilized Free Stream Gas Atomization (Hot CoSA) of Powders of Refractory Multi-Principle Element Alloys (RMPEA) for Extreme Environments, $250,000. High Efficiency Power-to-Gas in a Modular Hybrid Electrobioreactor, $1,000,000. Array Technologies (Albuquerque, New Mexico). Bunting-Dubois (Dubois, Pennsylvania).

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Audi takes one-two win at Le Mans with its diesel hybrids, Toyota third; 13th success for Audi in 16 runs

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For the first time, the engine’s turbocharger is linked to an electrical machine, which makes it possible to convert the thermal energy of the exhaust gas flow into electric energy—e.g., The second hybrid system is a motor on the front axle utilizing brake recuperation to convert kinetic energy into electric energy.

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