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NREL publishes online collection of case studies in EV deployment

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NREL developed the online resource for DOE’s Clean Cities initiative, which works to reduce petroleum consumption in transportation. The other locations featured in Deployment Case Studies include Raleigh, NC; Houston, Texas; and Los Angeles, California.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Ultra-Fast and - Thick Boriding of Geothermal Casing to Enhance Reliability, $150,000 Controlled Thermal Resources Inc., Raleigh, N.C. Deploying Intra-hour Uncertainty Analysis Tools to ABB's GridView, $500,000 ABB Power Consulting, Raleigh, N.C. El Centro, Calif. Idaho National Laboratory. Louisville, Colo. Niskayuna, N.Y.

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DOE announces EcoCAR 2; focus on electric drive technology

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North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina). In addition to GM, other sponsors include Natural Resources Canada, MathWorks, California Air Resources Board, Clean Cities, dSPACE, A123 Systems, Freescale Semiconductor, AVL Powertrain Engineering, Snap-On Tools, Robert Bosch, Siemens PLM, CD-Adapco, and Vector CANtech.

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President Obama announces new $140M public-private manufacturing innovation institute focused on power electronics

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In last year’s State of the Union address, the President proposed a series of three new manufacturing institutes that the Administration can create using existing resources—this is the first of those institutes.

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First $300M tranche of VW National ZEV investment targets charging infrastructure; 150kW+ fast charging on highway network

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Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. In aggregate, the Electrify America first cycle investment will aim to establish a network of approximately 2500+ non-proprietary chargers across 450+ individual stations.

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President Obama announces two new public-private manufacturing innovation institutes; new manufacturing innovation institute competition

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The two new DOD-led manufacturing institutes fulfill the President’s pledge in his 2013 State of the Union to establish three new manufacturing innovation institutes from existing resources. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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A Dab of Sunscreen Key To Solar Windows That Last Decades

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The team included engineers at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, as well as Tianjin University and Zhejiang University in China. In lab experiments, the organic cell's efficiency fell to less than 40 percent of its initial value within 12 weeks, when exposed to one sun's worth of illumination.

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