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The EV Transition Explained: Battery Challenges

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Stiff Competition for Engineering Talent One critical area of resource competition is over the limited supply of software and systems engineers with mechatronics and robotics expertise needed for EVs. For example, output from the only nickel mine in the US, the Eagle mine in Minnesota, is sent to Canada for smelting.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. (DOE The University of Minnesota and BioCee, Inc. Wave Disk Engine.

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