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DOE awarding $72M in 73 Phase II SBIR/STTR grants

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Production of C 5 hydrocarbons from waste biomass. Obtaining sustainable sources of chemicals and processing organic waste in an environmentally responsible manner remains a challenge. This proposal aims to solve these problems by converting organic waste into chemicals with widespread use in polymer and transportation industries.

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ARENA awards A$22.1M to 16 projects to accelerate exporting renewable hydrogen

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In December 2017, ARENA announced the funding round into hydrogen R&D. Monash University low-cost robust, high-activity water splitting electrodes – $1,054,209. The University of Melbourne (UOM) enabling efficient, affordable and robust use of renewable hydrogen in transport and power generation – $2,594,747.

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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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New Pd-based nanomaterial catalyst breaks down formic acid to H2; boost for practical chemical H2 storage

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Particularly noteworthy is that FA has a high volumetric hydrogen density of 53 g L –1 , which exceeds the 2017 target of 40 g L –1 for on-board hydrogen storage updated recently by the US Department of Energy (DOE). The catalyst is believed to give a tremendous boost to the practical application of FA for chemical hydrogen storage.

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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. Yet this "bigger can" brings big benefits.

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Tesla Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript: April 23, 2024

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These new vehicles, including more affordable models, will use aspects of the next-generation platform as well as aspects of our current platforms and will be able to be produced on the same manufacturing lines as our current vehicle lineup. That seems like it would be a waste not to use it. I think we’re, now with 12.3,

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