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ORNL to lead new EFRC focused on polymer electrolytes for energy storage

Green Car Congress

ORNL has partnered with six universities on FaCT including The Pennsylvania State University; the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Texas A&M University; the University of California, Santa Barbara; the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; and Georgia State University.

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DOE awards $60M to 24 R&D projects to accelerate advancements in zero-emissions vehicles

Green Car Congress

Extending the operating range and safety of Lithium-ion batteries with new fluorinated electrolytes. University of Illinois at Chicago. Scalable Ultra Power-Dense Extended Range (SUPER) Inverter. Fluorinated Ester Local High Concentration Electrolytes For Operation of Lithium-ion Batteries Under Extreme Conditions.

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Ford, Volkswagen, and GM Explore EV-Powered Houses

Cars That Think

And plenty of technology remains left to be worked out: including the complex supporting infrastructure, business models, and various forms of electric plugs and chargers, alongside their sometimes confounding range of pin configurations. The pickup boasts 563 horsepower, does zero to 60 in four seconds and wields 1050 Newton-meters (775 lb.

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Behind the Wheel, Under the Hood of Rivian's R1T

Cars That Think

An optional 180-kilowatt-hour battery (for $10,000) extends range past 400 miles. Rivian also plans to offer a more affordable 105-kilowatt-hour pack with a roughly 230-mile range. The latter figure beats the $112,595 GMC Hummer EV that’s set to reach showrooms in early 2022.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

At these prices, people are buying the "environmental feature" -- they want to be among the first owners of the worlds cleanest extended-range vehicles. Today youd do it to be one of the first to drive the worlds cleanest extended range vehicle; in the future, youll do it because its an obvious and affordable win!

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