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ClearFlame Engine Technologies hits multiple manufacturing, customer pilot, and fueling milestones

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and their successful integration of ClearFlame’s technology into a Class-8 truck, validating the ability to seamlessly bring ClearFlame’s technology to scale using existing transportation solution providers and supply chains. These announcements include: Signed Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with Reviva and Vander Haag’s, Inc.

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New Flyer introduces first 60-foot hydrogen fuel cell bus in North America

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Representatives from two major transit Authorities—Alameda County Transit (AC Transit) of California, and Metro Transit of Minneapolis, Minnesota—participated in the vehicle’s debut and demonstration. New Flyer of America, a subsidiary of New Flyer Industries Inc., and Siemens to develop the propulsion system.

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Who Will Free EV Motors from the Rare Earth Monopoly?

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As the world builds more and more electric cars and trucks—and electrifies other modes of transit—a race is underway to build the ideal, mean-and-green motor. Electric vehicles on the market today typically have motors with power densities between 1.1 The translucent tubes contain red-colored oil circulated to cool the motor.

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Cummins Demonstrates Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Auxiliary Power System

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The Cummins APU incorporated hybrid power electronics, system controls, and balance-of-plant components combined with SOFC modules supplied by Protonex Technology Corporation. The SOFC sub-system efficiently converts chemical energy in the ULSD fuel directly into useful electrical power. Earlier post.).

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The EV Transition Explained: Can the Grid Cope?

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There have been vigorous debates pro and con in the United States and elsewhere over whether electric grids can support EVs at scale. Palo Alto’s electrical distribution system was built for the electric loads of the 1950s and 1960s , when household heating, water, and cooking were running mainly on natural gas.

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What is Tesla’s Mystery Magnet?

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These magnets are weak and, more important, the world supply of cobalt is so fraught that they make up less than 2 percent of the permanent-magnet market. If the magnet really manages to combine all those attributes (a big if), it would be very well suited for use in the traction motors of electric vehicles.

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L. Frank Baum’s Cautionary Tale About the Gifts of Electricity

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Nowhere is that more evident than in his 1901 novel The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale, Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity and the Optimism of Its Devotees. Both boys, real and fictional, were enthusiastic electrical experimenters. And so the Baums witnessed the electrical transformation of Chicago.

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