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Kia prepping Washington and Oregon for Soul EV launch; dealers and charging network w/ fast-chargers

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Of the 20 dealers in the region, 12 will be located in Washington and eight in Oregon. The Soul EV earned an EPA-estimated range rating of 93 miles (150 km) when the 27 kWh, 360 V, 192-cell lithium-ion polymer battery is fully charged. The 2016 Soul EV is Kia’s first all-electric car to be sold in the US.

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DOE awards Group14 Technologies $3.96M as Energy Storage Grand Challenge winner; nano-silicon within an engineered carbon scaffold

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Group14’s technology applies complex polymer chemistries to create high-performance silicon-carbon nanocomposites. In the meantime, Group14 is working toward completing its new North American commercial facility in Washington.

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Power Of One Solar Car Reaches Los Angeles After Breaking World Distance Record, Heading to Washington, DC

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However, according to the project website, communities in Alaska and Washington invited the solar car to visit them and so it did. Marcelo, a former flight attendant for Air Canada, is preparing to leave Los Angeles en route to Washington DC. The actual drive began in Buffalo, NY. The three-wheel vehicle (two-front, one-rear) is 5.0

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WUSTL team develops high-power direct borohydride fuel cells; double the voltage of conventional H2 fuel cells

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Engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. V compared to state-of-the-art polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) that typically operate at 0.75 Their research was published in an open-access paper in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science. DBFCs fulfilling these criteria provide a 2.4

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PNNL biocrude-to-diesel demo passes 2,000-hour catalyst stability milestone

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—John Holladay, PNNL scientist and co-director of the joint Bioproducts Institute, a collaboration between PNNL and Washington State University. It addresses the need to convert biocrude, a mixture of carbon-based polymers, into biofuels. campus of Washington State University Tri-Cities.

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LANL and WSU researchers develop high-performance anion exchange membrane water electrolyzer with nickel-iron catalyst

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A collaborative research team, including scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Washington State University (WSU), has developed a nickel-iron (NiFe)-based catalyst, which is much less expensive, but which delivers comparable performance. They describe the advance in a paper published in Nature Energy.

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SGL Group inaugurates carbon fiber precursor line in Portugal

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Precursor is a polymer-based fiber which is used as the main raw material for the production of carbon fibers. SGL Group has inaugurated the production line for carbon-fiber precursor at its FISIPE site in Lavradio, near Lisbon in Portugal.