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New partnership to advance high-temperature PEM fuel cells; focus on heavy-duty applications

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Traditional PEM fuel cells have a relatively low operating temperature, which makes for a low tolerance to hydrogen fuel impurities and makes waste-heat rejection a challenge for vehicles. —Yu Seung Kim, a Los Alamos scientist who started an automotive HT-PEM fuel cells project in 2017.

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Cambridge team demonstrates light-driven photoreforming of unprocessed biomass to H2 at room temperature

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The system operates under visible light, is stable beyond six days and is even able to reform unprocessed lignocellulose, such as wood and paper, under solar irradiation at room temperature, presenting an inexpensive route to drive aqueous proton reduction to H 2 through waste biomass oxidation. Wakerley, Moritz F. Kuehnel, Katherine L.

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EV Everywhere Blueprint outlines DOE technical and development goals for EVs for 2022

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President Obama announced the DOE “Clean Energy Grand Challenge” in March 2012 with the goal of enabling US companies to be the first in the world to produce plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) that are as affordable and convenient for the average American family as today’s gasoline-powered vehicles within the next 10 years. Earlier post.).

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Peugeot E-Expert walk around and first drive

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I personally love this distinctive grid at the front, it really looks like it means business. Leasing, on the other hand, is more affordable, you can finance the vehicle with a fixed monthly cost and also include things like service and maintenance so that’s all taken care of enabling you to plan ahead financially. Lease vs buy.

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Is Elon Musk Back In “Production Hell” With Tesla’s 4680 Battery?

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Any whisper of production bottlenecks at Tesla inevitably recalls the Model 3's troubled launch in 2017 and 2018 , the one that had Musk sleeping in his office. Each jelly-roll cell packs in more active battery material, and less wasted space in metal casing. Stamped grid plates on top will bring power back to terminals.

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How Do EVs Compare To Gas Cars?

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Are EVs as affordable as gasoline cars? However, EVs are now much cheaper to buy and usually more affordable in the long-run. However, the process of obtaining raw materials and manufacturing lithium-ion batteries does generate waste and harmful emissions. Is our grid ready for a full transition to EVs?

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Audi highlights its range of electrification efforts; Q7 diesel PHEV, A7 fuel cell PHEV, BEV, 48V and more; 750 Wh/l by 2025

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This makes it possible for the waste heat from the electrical drive components to be made available to the interior of the Q7 e-tron quattro. That is making electric mobility affordable for more and more customers. A first test setup located near Ingolstadt recently started supplying the grid.

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