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DOE announces EcoCAR 2; focus on electric drive technology

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Established by the DOE and General Motors, EcoCAR 2 is a three-year competition that. EcoCAR 2 requires students to explore a variety of powertrain architectures focusing on electric drive vehicle technology. Pennsylvania State University (University Park, Pennsylvania). The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio).

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US DOE awards more than $175M to 40 projects for advanced vehicle research and development

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Advanced cells and design technology for electric drive batteries : Twelve projects awarded to develop high energy or high power batteries for electric vehicles that should significantly exceed existing state-of-the-art technologies in terms of performance and/or cost. Advanced cells and design technology for electric drive batteries.

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Ohio State team wins EcoCAR2 competition with E85 series-parallel plug-in hybrid Malibu

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The US Department of Energy and General Motors Co. kWh battery pack used with an 80 kW peak electric machine on the rear axle to provide power to the rear wheels through a single-speed gearbox. The OSU team’s design achieved 50 miles per gallon gas equivalent (MPGGE) (4.7 l/100 km), while using 315 Wh/mile of electricity.

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DOE awards $54M to 13 projects for transformational manufacturing technologies and materials; top two awards go to carbon fiber materials and electrodes for next-gen batteries

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The selected projects range from improving manufacturing processes that reduce the energy needed to make components for aircraft and vehicles, to lowering the production costs of carbon fiber for a wide range of clean energy products. process could reduce production costs by 20% and total carbon dioxide emissions by 50%.

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

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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. Earlier post.) DOE grant: $7,200,000). DOE grant: $6,949,624). DOE grant:$5,349,932). DOE Grant: $4,000,000).

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