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Delaware adopting California’s ZEV regulations

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Delaware will join 13 other states in adopting California’s Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) regulations. Managed by the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control ( DNREC ), the ZEV program is designed to accelerate the commercialization of battery-electric, plug-in hybrid and fuel cell electric vehicles.

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Proterra launches cloud-based EV fleet charging software platform with Delaware Transit Corporation

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Proterra announced the Delaware Transit Corporation (DTC), operator of DART transit services, as its first customer to operate Proterra’s new fully-integrated fleet and energy management software platform, Valence. Valence is a cloud-based, software-as-a-service platform designed to optimize commercial electric vehicle fleet deployments.

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U Delaware team develops prototype efficient direct ammonia fuel cell for transportation

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A team at the University of Delaware has demonstrated a direct ammonia fuel cell (DAFC) prototype with a peak power density of 135 mW cm -2 at 80 ?C. However, most air transport, military, shipping, and long-distance freight applications remain challenging for batteries because of their limited energy density.

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Univ. of Delaware and state partner on EV charging station project to support longer electric trips

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Faster charging stations for electric vehicles will be strategically placed at key locations in Delaware to enable long trips in the state by next year, through a new collaborative research agreement between the University of Delaware (UD) and the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC).

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Nikola turns to Delaware legislation to backup finance hydrogen pivot

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Nikola mentioned previous this year that it had delivered 111 battery-electric vehicles however will now withdraw from that industry to pay attention to gasoline mobile vehicles and the hydrogen distribution industry. The post Nikola turns to Delaware legislation to backup finance hydrogen pivot appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News.

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Chinese company reportedly seeks to invest $10B in Afghanistan’s lithium mining sector

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Acting minister for Mine and Petroleum, Shahabuddin Delawar, said that the investment would create 120,000 direct and a million indirect jobs in the country. Geologists have long thought that Afghanistan could have massive, untapped stores of critical minerals—ranging from trillions of dollars.

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U. Delaware and NRG Energy vehicle-to-grid project selling power to PJM

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A vehicle-to-grid (V2G) project between the University of Delaware and NRG Energy has begun selling power to PJM Interconnection for the power grid. Earlier post.). We knew that by doing so would attract innovation and would find potential for energy storage or other technologies.

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