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ARPA-E awards $32M to 10 new projects to improve connected and automated vehicle efficiency

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Connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technology utilizes on-board or cloud-based sensors, data and computational capabilities to help a vehicle better process and react to its surrounding environment. Currently, CAV technologies predominantly improve upon vehicle safety and add driving convenience. The Pennsylvania State University.

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Two Studies on Regional Options for Reducing GHG Highlight Need for Reduction in Travel Intensity

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Projected GHG emissions in Minnesota with different reduction wedges and wedge portfolios, in million metric tons of CO 2 equivalent. The team from the Ecosystem Science and Sustainability Initiative, University of Minnesota examined the potential for policies and technologies to effect GHG reductions across all sectors in the state.

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Summer Update

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Fleet Orders · Minnesota Department of Natural Resources – 1,800 · City of Chicago - 850 vehicles · Shohomish County, WA - 300 · City of Seattle - 410 · Kansas City, MO - 120 · Capital Metro (Transit agency in Austin) - 165 · ABC Lawn and Pest Control (Austin) - 150 Cities Cities continue to join the Plug-In Partners coalition.

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Profile: Li-ion Provider Compact Power, Inc. Focusing on the Automotive and Vehicle Markets

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but as PHEVs proliferate there will be a need for fast charging at service stations and highway rest stops then the anode will play a role. For a PHEV CPI expects ten to twenty cells to make up a module and ten to twenty modules make up the pack. it would bring down the neighborhood. Mini-cells” Source: LG Chem, ALBAA 2008.

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Gas War: U.S. House Suggests Ending California Emissions Authority, White House Says Nope

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While this has created an incredibly hazy regulatory environment at both the federal and state level under the Trump administration, Biden’s doesn’t seem to care due to being in broad alignment with the policies pushed by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). That proportion will rise to 68 percent by 2030 and 100 [percent] by 2035.