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Profiteering Hampers U.S. Grid Expansion

Cars That Think

The deficit is driving up electricity prices, reducing grid reliability, and hobbling renewable energy deployment. As we increasingly electrify our homes, transportation, and factories, utility companies’ choices about transmission will have huge consequences for the nation’s economy and well-being. Their grip over the backbone of U.S.

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DOE announces finalists of Geothermal Lithium Extraction Prize

Green Car Congress

Demand for lithium—a critical material used in batteries for electric vehicles, grid-scale electricity storage, phones, and laptops—has grown rapidly in recent years, with global demand expected to increase 500% by 2050. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – Team SelectPureLi: “A Redox Membrane for LiOH Extraction”.

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Rivian makes huge investment into renewables to power operations

Teslarati

Rivian has signed a power purchase agreement with Apex Clean Energy to supply their Normal, Illinois, manufacturing facility with wind power. Now, Rivian will invest an undisclosed amount of money into 50MW of wind energy that will supply the company’s operations in Normal, Illinois.

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What does record investment in EVs mean for job growth?

Plug in America

Startup automakers such as Rivian, Lucid Motors, VinFast, and Karma Automotive are either currently building, or have plans to build vehicles in Illinois, Georgia, North Carolina, and Arizona. Legacy automakers such as Ford, GM, and Toyota are beginning to revamp and build factories in states across the nation.

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Transportation Electrification Accord sets out multi-sector roadmap to electrified future

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Advanced Energy Economy, Energy Foundation, Illinois Citizen Utility Board, Natural Resources Defense Council, Plug-in America and Sierra Club worked with diverse stakeholder and business interests to draft the Accord. —Chris King, chief policy officer, Siemens Digital Grid. Context And Guiding Principles.

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DOE announces $139M in funding for 55 projects to advance innovative vehicle technologies

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e-Mosaic: Electrification Mosaic Platform for Grid- Informed Smart Charging Management. Utility Managed Smart Charging for Consumer and Grid Benefits. Improving Network-wide Fuel Economy and Enabling Traffic Signal Optimization Using Infrastructure and Vehicle-based Sensing and Connectivity. Dream Team Co LLC. 399,999.

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Fighting Climate Change with Clean Energy

EV Match

At EVmatch , we envision a distributed, equitable, and carbon-free clean energy economy that connects and elevates all people. would like to do more to contribute to a clean energy economy – for example, investing in solar power for their homes – but cannot do so due to living in a rental property or apartment building.