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BMW i Ventures makes strategic investment in parking services company ZIRX

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ZIRX intends to eliminate the frustration that drivers face in parking in major urban markets such as New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington D.C. The company has operations in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and Washington, D.C.

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Magnetic eCVT could replace conventional hybrid mechanical eCVT with likely 1-2% fuel economy improvement and other benefits

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million) was provided by IP Group which was matched by Finance Yorkshire. This electrical energy is either transiently stored or directed back to the drive train via a second traction motor. MAGSPLIT is intended to replace mechanical eCVTs with a combination motor/magnetic gear. Source: Magnomatics. Click to enlarge. million (US$4.1

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V2G company Nuvve participating in California’s wholesale energy markets to help balance the grid

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Nuvve Corporation, a San Diego-based vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology company, is participating in a program to deliver resource adequacy to local utility San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and California’s electrical grid using a large stationary battery located on the University of California San Diego’s (UC San Diego’s) campus microgrid.

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More details about California’s proposal requiring bidirectional charging capabilities for all EVs

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The idea of vehicle-to-grid is that you are storing energy at the end of the distribution system, so you can absorb those peaks. I think we have 22 or 24 buses in the San Diego area, and we have another deployment underway in the Los Angeles Unified School District, where we are initially deploying 24 as well.

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BoostEV is an on-demand mobile EV charging network, like UberEats for hungry EVs

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In February, the company officially launched its new BoostEV platform in select cities—it’s now available in Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York City, Raleigh, Richmond, San Diego, San Francisco and Santa Cruz. For example, with Instacart, my grocery store now lives on my phone. Do I buy the equipment?

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DOE will award up to $25M to reduce costs of algal biofuels to less than $5/gge by 2019

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Algae utilize a diversity of carbon concentrating mechanisms to maintain adequate carbon stores for photosynthesis. Enhancing transfer efficiency could enhance productivity through ensuring adequate intracellular carbon stores, as well as lower operating costs through more efficient utilization of carbon sources.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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Portland General Electric was also involved with the West Coast Clean Transit Corridor (WCCC), which is a movement towards getting truck and bus charging stations like Electric Island built from Vancouver down to San Diego so that you could move goods and freight all up and down the West coast, at 50-mile intervals.

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