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California Energy Commission awards Sierra Northern Railway team nearly $4M to demonstrate hydrogen switching locomotive; H2RAM

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The California Energy Commission has awarded GTI and Sierra Northern Railway nearly $4,000,000 to fund the design, integration, and demonstration of a hydrogen fuel cell switching locomotive to support the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Demonstrations in Rail and Marine Applications at Ports (H2RAM) initiative.

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Best speakers ever

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Electric Auto Association Silicon Valley (EAASV), established in 1967 as the original Electric Auto (now Vehicle) Association, has a long history of attracting members and presenting speakers who have gone on to become tech and transportation luminaries. More recently, Gage became the CEO of EVGrid , working on Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tech.

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Cruise announces staff reduction efforts that affect 24% of employees

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Following an incident when one of the company’s self-driving robotaxis crashed into a firetruck, however, the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) advised Cruise to cut its fleet in the city by 50%. By late October, the California DMV advised Cruise to halt all its operations in San Francisco.

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ARPA-E announces $98M in funding for 40 OPEN projects; two opposed-piston engines projects receive $10M total

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Georgia Tech Research Corporation. Georgia Tech will develop a new approach to internally cool permanent magnet motors. Developments from the project may be useful for other energy conversion technologies, such as ammonia production and high-temperature direct liquid fuel cells. University of California, San Diego.

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Bloom Energy Debuts SOFC Fuel Cell System for Distributed Generation

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Bloom Energy Corporation staged a high-profile event announcing the availability of the Bloom Energy Server, a patented solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology for distributed power generation. Solid State Energy Conversion Alliance (SECA). The event was hosted at eBay Inc.,

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DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

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The plant will operate under realistic conditions at a California oil field for at least two months of continuous steady-state testing. Field testing will be conducted at a renewable power generation site in California to capture operational data on the novel process and material combination under real conditions.

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

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Sunnyvale, California). Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. De Nora Tech, LLC (Concord, Ohio). Bright Silicon Technologies (San Francisco, California). Kairos Power (Alameda, California). Northrup Grumman Corporation (Elkton, Maryland). Madison, Wisconsin).