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American Battery Technology Company receives $2M USABC award to demo integrated Li-ion battery recycling technologies

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The contract award, which includes a 75% cost-share, funds a 30-month project that began in October 2021. The program’s focus is to demonstrate that battery-grade metals can be manufactured from recycled materials at lower cost, lower environmental impact, and with higher domestic US sourced content than conventional virgin sourced metals.

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US DOE awards more than $175M to 40 projects for advanced vehicle research and development

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This project will develop a new process that enables low-cost, domestic manufacturing of magnesium. This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber. Zoltek Companies, Inc. 10,000,000.

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AVL Concept Turbohybrid Mild Hybrid System Approaches Full Hybrid Fuel Savings at Lower Cost; Improved Driveability

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Comparison of Fuel Consumption, Fun to Drive and System Cost of the different powertrain concepts. In testing on a BMW demo 3-Series vehicle, a 1.6-liter In testing on a BMW demo 3-Series vehicle, a 1.6-liter The demo Turbohybrid powertrain. Click to enlarge. naturally aspirated baseline; a 1.6L The Turbohybrid system.

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Volvo Car Corporation to Introduce Diesel Plug-in Hybrid in Europe in 2012

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kWh Li-ion battery pack, of which 8 kWh is usable. Volvo Car Corporation has selected lithium-ion battery systems designed and produced by Ener1, Inc. for the plug-in demo cars. These will combine a front-wheel drive diesel engine with a rear-wheel drive electric motor, powered by an 11.3 Earlier post.)

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StoreDot extreme fast-charging batteries

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In 2019, they gave a live demo to audiences and successfully charged a 60 km range battery pack in just 5 minutes 5 seconds. Some of the battery challenges are driving range, battery cost and weight, but charging time remains the major obstacle to the mass adoption of EVs. StoreDot extreme fast-charging batteries.

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Store DotStoreDot extreme fast-charging batteries

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In 2019, they gave a live demo to audiences and successfully charged a 60 km range battery pack in just 5 minutes 5 seconds. Some of the battery challenges are driving range, battery cost and weight, but charging time remains the major obstacle to the mass adoption of EVs. StoreDot extreme fast-charging batteries.

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