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U Alberta spin-off Forge Hydrocarbons commercializing pyrolytic lipids-to-hydrocarbons process

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A University of Alberta spinoff company, Forge Hydrocarbons, is commercializing a patented lipids-to-hydrocarbons (LTH) process developed by David Bressler, a researcher in the Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences. Bressler made his initial discovery in 2004 with funding from an NSERC Discovery grant.

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Opposed-piston engine company Achates Power raises $35.2M in Series C Financing; new industry advisory board

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The company also announced the formation of a new Industry Advisory Board, and its selection as a semi-finalist in the Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) Energy Security Prize. The Series C financing follows a $19-million Series B round in 2009 and brings the total raised by Achates Power to nearly $90 million since its 2004 founding.

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Colorado State University Spinoff to Commercialize 3D Li-ion Battery Technology for Higher-Capacity, Longer-Life Cells

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In a 2004 paper in the ACS journal Chemical Reviews , Long et al. Prieto, who is the chief scientific officer for the new company, expects to demonstrate the first prototype of the battery by early next year. —has supplied the first round of funding for the new company. —Long et al.

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GM Ventures invests in battery-electric bus company Proterra

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a leading maker of battery-electric commercial transit buses. While this investment will help Proterra commercialize its electric bus and fast-charging technology, it also helps to address the future challenges of urban mobility. was founded in 2004 and is currently manufacturing buses in a temporary plant in Greenville, S.C.

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MIT Professor’s IoT Sensors Make Roads Safer

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Hari Balakrishnan Employer MIT Title Professor Member grade Fellow Alma maters Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and the University of California, Berkeley He and his research team at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory developed CarTel, short for car telematics. We showed that it could work at scale. “I

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University of Glamorgan and Atraverda to Partner on Bi-Polar Lead-Acid Batteries; Potential Application in Hybrid and Electric Vehicles

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The University of Glamorgan (Wales) and Atraverda, an advanced material company that owns the intellectual property rights to a conductive ceramic known as Ebonex, are collaborating to produce a commercially viable bi-polar lead-acid battery. Journal of Power Sources. Volume 136, Issue 2, Pages 366-371 doi: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2004.03.025.

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Ford embeds researchers in new U-M robotics lab to accelerate autonomous vehicle research

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Ford and the University of Michigan are teaming up to accelerate autonomous vehicle research and development with a first-time arrangement that embeds Ford researchers and engineers into a new state-of-the-art robotics laboratory on U-M’s Ann Arbor campus. Autonomous vehicles are part of Ford’s expansion to be an auto and a mobility company.

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