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Letting in the Light

Electric Auto Association

Chasing EVs for 50 years Smith, who grew up on a family farm in Maryland, began working on bicycles when he was a child, and built his own ebike at 14. “I It was like the early days of the automobile industry when everything was so scattered,” Smith explained. LEV manufacturing and distribution were very disorganized back then.

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DOE awards $25M to improve natural gas operations

Green Car Congress

The automobile industry deploys low-cost MPE sensors today to measure tailpipe emissions. University of Maryland plans to develop a process-intensified catalyst for thermochemical DHA to produce one or more of the aromatic hydrocarbons BTX. DOE Funding: $999,971; Non-DOE Funding: $256,220; Total Value: $1,256,191.

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