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DOE announces $59M to accelerate advanced vehicle technologies research

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Through this topic area, the DOE Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) will select “seedling” projects for innovative, new ideas that accelerate the development of advanced motor designs and materials in support of the goals of the Electric Drive Technologies (EDT) Consortium, a multi-disciplinary team of national labs and universities.

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ARPA-E issues $5M funding opportunity to support upcoming grid optimization competition

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To enable broader diversity in team domain expertise, i.e., to encourage teams to participate that do not traditionally focus on the particular problems that are targeted but otherwise have innovative approaches for this class of mathematical programs.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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As The Wall Street Journal noted in a July 2023 profile , Jenkins has played an “outsized role” in determining where federal cash can have the biggest impact, and politicos like White House clean-energy advisor John Podesta name-drop the professor and his numbers to sell their ideas. Back to top Until recently, energy modeling by the U.S.

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Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

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Researchers at Harvard have demonstrated a metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery—a quinone–bromide flow battery (QBFB)—as an example of a class of energy storage materials that exploits the favorable chemical and electrochemical properties of a family of molecules known as quinones. Click to enlarge. —Michael J.

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The Lucid Air Dream Edition R’s first in-depth review reveals the car is a stunner

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Lucid frontman Peter Rawlinson has spent plenty of years in the electric vehicle realm, so he definitely has an idea of what goes into creating a fast, luxurious, and effective electric car. I drove it to class in college, and Lord, I hated that thing.). However, it is much more pleasing to the eye, in my opinion. Credit: MotorTrend.

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President Obama announces two new public-private manufacturing innovation institutes; new manufacturing innovation institute competition

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The integrated design, development, and production of highly complex systems, leveraging software, can speed ideas from the lab into commercial production, reduce costs, and shorten production lifecycles. In the wind energy industry, doubling the length of a turbine blade can quadruple the amount of electricity generated.

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Flea-Sized Robots Walk a Coin-Edge-Sized Path

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This class of materials undergoes a phase transition at a certain temperature, triggering a shape change. “So His lab has developed tiny structures resembling worms and beetles, and even a winged microchip that moves through the air passively, using the same principles as the wind dispersal of seeds.

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