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JANUARY 20, 2010

Orocobre Limited , an Australian minerals exploration company with a focus on developing “best of class” Lithium, Potash and Boron resources in Argentina, and a Toyota Group Company, Toyota Tsusho Corporation, will establish a joint venture to develop Orocobre’s flagship Salar de Olaroz Lithium-Potash Project in Argentina.

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MAY 31, 2022

and Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) are partnering to establish a mobile retail business that uses a fuel cell vehicle in specified reconstruction and revitalization bases. Futaba Town, Namie Town, AEON TOHOKU Co., Fukushima Hydrogen Energy Research Field (FH2R).

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MAY 8, 2022

Livent Corporation agreed to double its ownership interest ( earlier post ) to 50% in Nemaska Lithium , a fully integrated lithium hydroxide development project located in Québec, Canada. Whabouchi represents a large and competitive spodumene resource, and has access to existing infrastructure and renewable hydroelectric power.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Nikola Corporation and KeyState Natural Gas Synthesis , a clean hydrogen and chemicals production facility under development, are working together to create Pennsylvania’s first low-carbon hydrogen production value chain, which includes full integration of commercial carbon capture and storage.

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MAY 9, 2019

It’s the first high-volume production CNG Type-C school bus engine certified to California Air Resources Board’s optional low nitrogen oxide (NO x ) emissions standard of 0.02 —Phil Horlock, president and CEO of Blue Bird Corporation. ROUSH CleanTech developed the technology using Ford’s 6.8L V10 engine.

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OCTOBER 11, 2009

CIRI), an Alaska Native corporation, is proposing an underground coal gasification (UCG) project that would use the resulting syngas to fuel a new 100 MW combined cycle power plant. CIRI has begun the permitting process to start resource assessment testing. Source: CIRI. Click to enlarge. Cook Inlet Region Inc. CIRI UCG Presentation.

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JANUARY 17, 2018

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has developed what it believes to be the industry’s highest performing automotive camera technology. The computational visual-cognition model’s relatively simple algorithms free up system resources for real-time performance, even in on-board systems.

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MARCH 5, 2021

The estimated resource on the seafloor in the exploration contract areas held by the company’s subsidiaries is sufficient for 280 million EVs—a quarter of the global passenger car fleet. DeepGreen Metals Inc., The transaction represents a pro forma equity value of US$2.9 and operate as The Metals Company upon closing. Source: DeepGreen.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

Toyota Motor Corporation and Panasonic Corporation have concluded a business-integration contract and a joint-venture contract toward the establishment of a new joint venture related to the automotive prismatic battery business by the end of 2020 (pending approval from the competition-law authorities in the countries and regions concerned).

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APRIL 30, 2022

Lead: Cnem Corporation; Partners: Talon Metals Services Inc., Palcan Energy Corporation. Cnem Corporation and partners Talon Metals Services Inc., and Palcan Energy Corporation will develop a new recycling process to process EV battery black mass using an environmentally friendly approach.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Bank of America has joined Stanford University’s Global Climate & Energy Project (GCEP), a collaboration of academic and business experts that identifies and supports new avenues of research to make environmentally sustainable, low-cost energy available to everyone.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Toyota Motor Corporation has developed the world’s first neodymium-reduced, heat-resistant magnet. A portion of the neodymium has been replaced with lanthanum (La) and cerium (Ce), which are low-cost rare earths, reducing the amount of neodymium used in the magnet. Source: Toyota.

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DECEMBER 2, 2014

Low-head sites, which operate with a change in elevation between 2 and 20 meters, include waterways at existing non-powered dams, canals, and conduits. According to Energy Department assessments, there is a technical resource potential of more than 50 gigawatts of potential capacity at these low-head sites.

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DECEMBER 2, 2018

a developer of low-cost, high-performance polymers for electrochemical applications, announced its selection by the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for an award that will support the continued development of its alkaline exchange ionomers and membranes. Ecolectro Inc., Kristina M.

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JANUARY 15, 2018

With a market value of $1,500 to $2,400 per ton, abundant low-cost feedstock supplies, and robust multi-sector offset demand, Attis’ new ABL Resin product has the potential to make a significant and valuable contribution to reducing US dependence on petroleum-derived chemicals and fuels.

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JUNE 15, 2023

In its last briefing session, Toyota Motor Corporation set ambitious electric vehicle (EV) goals. With the resources we earn, we will improve our product appeal to exceed customer expectations and secure earnings,” stated Toyota.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Nickel offers relatively low cost, wide availability and low toxicity compared to other key battery materials, such as cobalt. (Image courtesy of Jie Xiao | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory). Researchers are working on ways to store more energy in the cathode materials by increasing nickel content.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

million Series A financing with proceeds from Flint Hills Resources, a privately held company based in Kansas, Life Technologies Corporation, a biotechnology tools company based in Carlsbad, Calif., SG Biofuels, Inc., a bioenergy crop company developing and producing elite seeds of Jatropha, has completed a $9.4-million

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JANUARY 9, 2015

IACMI is dedicated to overcoming these barriers by developing low-cost, high-production, energy-efficient manufacturing and recycling processes for composites applications. In the wind energy industry, advances in low-cost composite materials will help manufacturers build longer, lighter and stronger blades to create more energy.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

The Department of Energy (DOE) has selected nine projects to receive approximately $4 million in cost-shared federal funding to improve the technical, environmental, and economic performance of new and existing technologies that extract, separate, and recover rare earth elements (REEs) from domestic US coal and coal by-products.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Georgia Tech Research Corporation. Ecolectro is developing alkaline exchange ionomers (AEIs) to enable low-cost fuel cell and electrolyzer technologies. Drop-In Replacement Materials from Abundant Resources to Double Energy in EV Batteries – $3,100,000. Superstrong, Low-cost Wood for Lightweight Vehicles – $3,600,000.

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APRIL 25, 2010

Shanghai Diesel Engine Company is owned by Shanghai Automotive Industrial Corporation (SAIC), one of the top three automotive corporations in China. Dimethyl ether is a diesel fuel replacement that can be produced from abundant resources including natural gas, landfill methane, coal and biomass.

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MAY 15, 2015

kW/kg (gravimetric), while being engineered for low-cost, high-volume series production. Intelligent Energy has an existing collaboration with Suzuki Motor Corporation. The company’s unique stack technology offers leading power densities of 3.5 kW/l (volumetric) and 3.0 100kW automotive fuel cell. Warburton, A., Burslem, B.,

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JANUARY 17, 2012

SGB will use the proceeds to expand research and development, advance commercialization efforts and scale global operations.

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APRIL 1, 2011

China Energy, a Hong Kong-based limited liability corporation, has been formed by Zhongjixuan Investment Management Ltd. ZJX will assist SES in the development of new joint venture businesses to deliver energy based on lower cost/lower grade coals such as lignite. Gasification company Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Mitsubishi Corporation will invest approximately C$2.9 The Partnership holds about 409,000 net acres of Encana’s undeveloped Montney-formation natural gas lands in the company’s Cutbank Ridge resource play in northeast British Columbia. billion for a 40% interest in the Cutbank Ridge Partnership.

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APRIL 25, 2016

NEC Corporation, NEC TOKIN Corporation and TOHOKU UNIVERSITY have jointly created a thermoelectric (TE) device using the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) with conversion efficiency 10 times higher than a test module that was produced based on a multi-layered SSE technology published by the Tohoku University group in 2015.

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APRIL 17, 2010

IGCC and carbon capture technologies have been commercially demonstrated and will need to be widely deployed to enable low cost power generation from domestic fossil energy resources, while at the same time achieving significant reductions in carbon dioxide emissions globally.

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DECEMBER 5, 2014

million in development funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to support research aimed at significantly reducing the current costs of electrical vehicle (EV) chargers and developing “smart” charging capabilities that support power grid efficiency and consumer demand. In 2012, Siemens was awarded $1.6

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

The company is in the business of owning and operating mid-scale energy facilities (XTLH refineries) that convert a wide range of low-cost, carbon-rich feedstock into fuels.

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JANUARY 13, 2010

SG Biofuels, a plant science company specializing in the development of Jatropha as a low-cost, sustainably produced source of oil ( earlier post ), has entered a strategic alliance with Life Technologies Corporation, a provider of innovative life science solutions, to advance the development of Jatropha as a sustainable biofuel.

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MARCH 22, 2012

The newly funded projects are: Low Platinum PEM Fuel Cells. This project is led by Steven Holdcroft, Simon Fraser University, in partnership with Automotive Fuel Cell Corporation, Ballard Power Systems, Hyteon Inc., Long-Lived, High-Energy-Density and Low-Cost Lithium-Ion Batteries for Automotive, Grid Energy and Medical.

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) is licensing its GRAS-Di (Genotyping by Random Amplicon Sequencing-Direct) DNA analysis technology that can dramatically accelerate selective breeding to Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Eurofins Genomics K.K., and GeneBay Inc. Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 20, 2015

IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) and its subsidiary Axens have formed a strategic alliance to develop and to commercialize a new technology for the low cost production of bio-based benzene, toluene and paraxylene using Anellotech’s process of Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis (CFP) of non-food biomass. Anellotech Inc., Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 18, 2011

Collaboration between our two companies in this joint venture will create a gasification technology business in China with significant local presence, focus, resources and expertise. —Zhang Xiwu, chairman of Shenhua Group Corporation Ltd.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Improved energy storage technologies will allow for expanded integration of renewable energy resources like wind and photovoltaic systems and will improve frequency regulation and peak energy management. DOE funding $10,403,570, total project value including cost share $24,656,485). NSTAR Electric & Gas Corporation (MA).

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AUGUST 30, 2016

LeMond Composites, founded by three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond, has licensed a low-cost, high-volume carbon fiber manufacturing process developed at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). In the USA, the demand is being driven by the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards.

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