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Utah-based Energy Fuels to enter commercial rare earth business in Q1-2021

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REEs are the building-blocks of a wide array of clean energy and advanced technologies, including wind turbines, electric vehicles, cell phones, computers, flat panel displays, advanced optics, catalysts, medicine, and national defense applications. —Mark S. Chalmers, President and CEO of Energy Fuels.

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DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

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Powder River Basin (Montana and Wyoming): University of Wyoming aims to provide an economic benefit to the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana by stimulating new resource development around the nation’s largest coal mines. DOE Funding: $1,499,817. DOE Funding: $1,500,000.

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Lightning Motorcycles electric bike with Remy motor cracks 200 mph

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Using a Remy propulsion electric motor, Lightning Motorcycles, LLC. In a 14 August SCTA (Southern California Timing Association)-sanctioned run at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, Lightning—the 2010 land speed record holder—achieved 206.079 mph, topping its 2010 speed of 176 mph.

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Neo Performance Materials and Energy Fuels launching US-European rare earth production initiative

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Energy Fuels will process the monazite sands into a mixed rare earth carbonate (RE Carbonate) in Utah for use as feed material for Neo’s value-added separated rare earth production plant in Europe. Energy Fuels is also continuing to evaluate developing additional value-added US rare earth production capabilities in Utah in the future.

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Raser Technologies and Hyundai Heavy Industries To Collaborate on Development of Renewable Energy and Extended Range Electric Vehicles

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The H3 EREV uses a 200 kW Raser Symetron traction motor mated to a 4–speed automatic transmission. The proposed solar power project will be built at Raser’s Thermo site in southern Utah, using photovoltaic (PV) solar panels and transmission equipment manufactured by HHI. Earlier post.). Solar project.

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Flash Drive: 2023 Genesis GV70 EV AWD

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A slick performance Silent Propulsion The all-wheel drive GV70 EV comes with twin electric motors, front and rear, each producing 160 kilowatts (kW) of power. These motors produce a combined 429 horsepower (hp) and 483 pound-feet of torque. Ready for a fast boost Range can also be added through powerful motor regeneration.

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Road Test: 2023 Genesis GV60 EV

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Additional charging is also through powerful motor regeneration. The Advance AWD model has a total of 314 horsepower (hp) through 74 kW front and 160 kW rear motors. Step-up to the Performance AWD, the model Clean Fleet Report drove, and those numbers increase to 429 hp with twin 160 kW motors front and rear.