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Oregon State partnering with Daimler on fuel-cell electric Class 8 truck for SuperTruck 3

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million awarded by the Department of Energy to Daimler Trucks North America, headquartered in Portland, and $199 million awarded overall by the DOE to fund 25 projects geared toward putting cleaner cars and trucks on America’s roads and improving the nation’s electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The work by Oregon State is part of $25.8

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DOE to award up to $156M for applied R&D projects to drive industrial decarbonization

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Rooted in the principles identified in the 2022 Industrial Decarbonization Roadmap , this investment is part of the innovation pipeline DOE is building to accelerate the development and adoption of industrial decarbonization technologies. Topic 8: Decarbonizing Forest Products.

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Daimler Trucks E-Mobility Group starts global initiative for electric-truck charging infrastructure

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The sooner and more exactly the energy suppliers and power grid operators know what customers’ infrastructure requirements will be, the faster and more efficiently they can build them up. The initiative’s measures therefore include the development of standard concepts that cover common charging profiles.

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Daimler Trucks North America unveils two Freightliner electric vehicle models and Electric Innovation Fleet

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Freightliner Trucks premiered two fully electrified commercial vehicles—a Freightliner eCascadia heavy-duty truck and a Freightliner eM2 106 medium-duty truck—during the Daimler Trucks Capital Market and Technology Day in Portland. The eCascadia has up to 730 peak horsepower.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif.

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Columbus, Ohio wins $40M DOT Smart City Challenge; $10M more from Vulcan, $90M from private partners

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These partnerships illustrated the private-sector enthusiasm to help build an inclusive transportation system of the future. In addition, these seven cities were able to leverage US DOT’s $40 million grant to raise approximately $500 million more in funding—a vast majority of which comes from a diverse group of more than 150 partners.

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The Future @ Smart Garage

Revenge of the Electric Car

A couple weeks ago, I read about the Rocky Mountain Institute’s gathering of EV interests in Portland for “Smart Garage.&# They may still harbor love for the concept, but the realities of the marketplace have proven that technology a non-starter. Amory Lovins. But the key problem remains the lack of cars in the showroom.

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