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EU Innovation Fund grants €108M to RWE’s waste-to-hydrogen project FUREC

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For comparison: This is equivalent to the output of a 700-megawatt offshore wind farm with coupled electrolyzers. The CO 2 released during the hydrogen production is captured and can be stored or possibly used as a raw material by industry in the future. The plant is expected to produce 54,000 tonnes of hydrogen per year.

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U Toronto and Fujitsu team use quantum-inspired computing to discover improved catalyst for hydrogen production

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Scaling up the production of what we call green hydrogen is a priority for researchers around the world because it offers a carbon-free way to store electricity from any source. DA is designed to solve fully connected quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problems and is implemented on CMOS hardware. Choubisa et al.

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Sandia team puts power into local grid with supercritical CO2 closed-loop Brayton-cycle turbine

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In comparison, the Brayton cycle has a theoretical conversion efficiency upwards of 50%. We’ve been striving to get here for a number of years, and to be able to demonstrate that we can connect our system through a commercial device to the grid is the first bridge to more efficient electricity generation.

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Rivian filings hint at $10k autonomous driving option, software subscription details

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The Rivian user experience is built around personalization, seamless connectivity and a platform that will constantly evolve thanks to over-the-air updates. Here’s Brennan Boblett, Director of UX Design, sharing just a few of the features we have in store. pic.twitter.com/MtLElNeQVv — Rivian (@Rivian) September 27, 2021.

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“Charging Station” — Is That the Location or the “Charger”?

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believe it means the individual connection / charger / port / hardware. For one, clarity and consistency is critical for sharing statistics and making comparisons. If we are going to make comparisons between EV charging and gas station infrastructure then we need to at least compare apples to apples. Well actually no.

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Audi to introduce entry-level e-tron model with smaller battery pack, less range

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By comparison, the 55 quattro features a 95 kWh battery with up to 255.4 These store up to 71 kWh of energy, which is delivered via a newly calibrated drivetrain and a high voltage system featuring additional optimisations for this application, and facilitate a range of up to 186 miles in the WLTP cycle.

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Penn State team devises new control strategy to enhance EV battery performance when driving in cold temperatures

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Comparison of energy balance between the “Battery Heating While Driving” case and the base case during simulated US06 drive cycle tests at −40 °C. The two pieces of nickel foil are connected in parallel with their total resistance of 39 milliOhm at 20 °C. Zhang et al. Click to enlarge. —Zhang et al. Ah and weighed 210 g.

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