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New startup Romeo Power to develop and manufacture optimized EV battery packs

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Romeo Power , a Santa Monica, California -based startup will design and manufacture electric vehicle battery packs that the company says will outperform any battery systems on the EV market today. The company was launched this month by tech innovators Michael Patterson and Porter Harris.

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San Francisco Bay Area leaders announce formation of “EV Strategic Council” and $5M+ for EV infrastructure

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Led by the region’s big city Mayors, regional officials and clean tech industry executives, the Bay Area EV Strategic Council aims to develop the infrastructure needed for an influx of new electric vehicles (EVs). million from the California Energy Commission, supplemented by $2.5 Publication of Ready, Set, Charge, California!

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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Wearable devices, like nearly every other piece of tech, need energy. The best-known wearable energy-harvesting tech today is, of course, solar, which pulls down electrons from sunlight or ambient light. Wei Gao/Caltech California Institute of Technology’s Wei Gao developed a self-powering “electronic skin.”

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Cadillac Escalade IQ, 2024 BMW 4-Order, Rivian will get Tesla rate port: Lately’s Automobile Information

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Cadillac Escalade IQ debuts Aug.

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Lightning Eyes 10-Minute Charging for its Motorbikes

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That SuperBike topped every internal combustion engine motorcycle en route to a Pikes Peak International Hill Climb win in 2013, on the Colorado gantlet that’s among the world’s highest-profile tech challenges for cars and motorcycles alike. That’s closer to a 50 percent recharge than the company’s 60 percent (from 20-to-80 percent) claim.

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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. Novel Polymer-enhanced Rechargeable Aluminum-Alkaline Battery Technology – $2,000,000. University of California, San Diego. Ionic Materials, Inc.

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Taiwanese smartphone giant Foxconn reveals electric ute, global sales planned

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Better known as Foxconn, manufacturer of the iPhone on behalf of Apple, Hon Hai showed off its Foxtron Model V dual-cab ute at its annual tech day this week. drag coefficient and 450km range between recharges. Yet another electric ute has been unveiled, this time by Taiwanese industrial giant Hon Hai. long hatch has 2.8m It boasts a 3.8

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