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EV Fun Run!

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EVA members can qualify for the ‘Best EV’ and ‘Best Conversion EV’ awards, Martinson continued. The “Mother Road,” as John Steinbeck coined it in his classic 1939 novel, The Grapes of Wrath , winds from Chicago to Los Angeles, passing through Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel. Johnson Matthey will investigate the catalytic conversion of this microbial biodiesel into additional fuel molecules, most importantly jet fuel. Hydrogen-Dependent Conversion of Carbon Dioxide To Liquid Electrofuels By Extremely Thermophilic Archaea.

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DOE reports progress on development of hydrogen storage technologies

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Related to this, DOE seeks by 2020 to develop novel precursors and conversion processes capable of reducing the high-volume cost of high-strength carbon fiber by 25% from $13 per pound to ~$9 per pound. The program made three new awards in FY 2014: HRL Laboratories, with partners SNL and University of Missouri-St. kWh/kg system (5.5

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DOE Critical Materials Institute selects four projects to support critical materials supply chain innovation

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For example, rare earth elements are essential for the manufacturing of high strength magnets used in EV motors and offshore wind turbine generators. Project Title: Unlocking Missouri’s Cobalt Potential. The Doe Run Resources Company, in collaboration with Missouri University of Science and Technology and OLI Systems, Inc.,

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Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

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on a path to reducing emissions more than 40% below 2005 levels, per a Princeton University analysis of the measure’s impacts : expanded tax credits for EVs, batteries, solar panels and wind turbines. On a broad level, the IRA enacts the following climate change-mitigation measures which, taken together, put the U.S.