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ICCT assesses factors driving EV market in US cities

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A new white paper from a team at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) assesses the growing US electric vehicle market and the factors that are driving it, with a focus on the 50 most populous US metropolitan areas. Electric vehicle share of new 2016 vehicle registrations by metropolitan area. Source: The ICCT.

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USC team uses mixed conduction membranes to suppress polysulfide shuttle in Li-S batteries

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Because of the rapidity of lithium ion transport in the MCM, the internal resistance of the battery is not higher than that of a conventional lithium-sulfur battery. The authors presented this paper earlier at the Honolulu, Hawaii, Meeting of the Electrochemical Society in October 2016. Derek Moy and S. Electrochem.

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Revealed: Jupiter’s Secret Power Source

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Now, an international team led by James O'Donoghue of JAXA , the Japanese space agency, says they've found an answer. They used the 10-meter Keck II telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii, one of the five largest in the world, to take spectrographic readings of the planet on two nights: 14 April 2016 and 25 January 2017.

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Solar Impulse 2 used Kokam Ultra High Energy NMC batteries in round-the-world solar flight

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What was critical was to get the lightest and most energy efficient solution, and we consequently selected Kokam’s Ultra High Energy NMC batteries, which has been our battery solution since the first flight of Solar Impulse 1 in December 2009 until the final leg landing of Solar Impulse 2 in Abu Dhabi in July 2016. Source: Kokam.

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Study finds rising emissions of ozone-depleting CFC-11, banned by Montreal Protocol

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Emissions of one of the chemicals most responsible for the Antarctic ozone hole are on the rise, despite an international treaty that required an end to its production in 2010, a new study by researchers at NOAA and their colleagues shows. Measurements from Hawaii indicate the sources of the increasing emissions are likely in eastern Asia.

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SAE World Congress panel highlights progress on H2 infrastructure and fuel cell vehicle commercialization

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These three geographical areas will each have approximately 50 stations by 2016 and plans to expand this cumulatively to a multiple hundreds by 2020 and thousands in the decade thereafter. When the competition is 150+-year-old internal combustion engine technology, rapid learning cycles are a critical success tool for fuel cell powertrains.

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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These three leading international energy markets illustrate how progress is being made in other major energy-intensive nations, but they are not alone. mpg by 2016. cents/ kWh in Hawaii to 5.61 Even ruling Hawaii out as an outlier, the cost of electricity in Connecticut was 17.79 EIA projections of renewables penetration.

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