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This funding will accelerate the path to commercialization through developing a next-generation electrolyte, automating manual processes to assemble more cells, and perform pre-FEED studies ahead of investing in the next scale of manufacturing facilities. Solid-state sodium-ion battery company LiNa Energy has closed out a £3-million (US$3.4-million)

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million in a Series A funding round co-led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Eni Next, with participation from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and AP Ventures. C-Zero Inc., a pioneer in natural gas decarbonization, recently raised $11.5 Background. cal/mol H 2 ) is slightly (. The catalyst plays a crucial role in this process. Resources.

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—James Turner, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clean Combustion Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). A study of a 2017 Toyota Mirai fuel cell by Argonne National Laboratory found fuel cell stack efficiency below 50% and fuel cell system efficiency dropping below 40% at high loads.

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Johnson Matthey (JM), Echion Technologies , (Echion), Britishvolt (BV) and University College London (UCL) are grant recipients in the latest round (Round 4) of the Faraday Battery Challenge in the UK. Echion is a high-growth company spun-out of Cambridge University in 2017 to commercialize niobium oxide-based materials for anodes.

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This funding will enable the company to advance their technology through expanding their laboratory facilities, stepping-up recruitment and buying new equipment which will accelerate their commercialization plan and ultimately when they are market-ready. —Dr Gene Lewis, CEO of LiNa Energy.

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Super Cruise, GM’s semi-automated driving technology, will come to market in a new 2017 Cadillac vehicle. If we expect our industry to thrive well into the future, we have to provide solutions. GM and Carnegie Mellon University demonstrated this when the “Boss,” our fully autonomous Chevy Tahoe, won the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007.

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This is also considerable in context of how much energy and effort is put into the food industry. The duo selected food waste as a microbial feedstock after interviewing 80 customers across waste-to-hydrogen industries while participating in DOE’s Energy I-Corps, a program that helps accelerate commercialization efforts at DOE laboratories.

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The governing boards of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach unanimously approved the 2017 Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) Update , ushering in a new era of aggressive clean air strategies for moving cargo through the nation’s busiest container port complex. The approval launches the process for developing and refining specific programs.

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ExxonMobil expects to increase annual earnings potential by more than 140% and double potential annual cash flow from operations by 2025 from 2017 adjusted earnings, assuming a 2017 oil price of $60 per barrel adjusted for inflation and based on 2017 margins. —Darren Woods.

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a startup founded by former Stanford University researchers developing next-generation battery technology for potential aerospace and industrial applications. In September 2017, CalSEED awarded Cuberg $150,000 in Phase I grant funding. In December 2017, NSF SBIR awarded Cuberg $225,000 in Phase I grant funding.

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To support the planned commercial launch of fuel cell electric vehicles by automakers in 2015 (FCEVs), California needs 68 hydrogen fueling stations in five clusters in which most early adopters are expected, according to a new report issued by the California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP). Source: CaFCP. Click to enlarge.

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The proposed plant would take more than 500,000 tonnes each year of non-recyclable everyday household and commercial solid waste destined for landfill or incineration such as meal packaging, diapers and takeaway coffee cups and convert it into more than 60 million liters (15.85

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This project will expand Anovion’s existing manufacturing capacity in Sanborn, NY—notably the only qualified US source of battery-grade synthetic graphite commercially shipping product today. NOVONIX Anode Materials LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NOVONIX Limited, was formed in 2017. Li 2 O spodumene concentrate.

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Accelerate the commercialization of electric mobility technologies and services. Conduct advanced research, development and demonstration projects that can be quickly commercialized for worldwide adoption of electric mobility. PEM Motion and EnerTech Capital are key industry partners supporting the Center.

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An international collaboration led by Cranfield University will examine the potential for the low-carbon production of hydrogen from natural gas. MW th pilot plant at Cranfield University to test the innovative hydrogen production technology that substantially reduces greenhouse gas emissions. The proposed maximum output of 1.5

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GWh in 2017—making it Nº 1 globally. CATL will invest €240 million by 2022 in the German plant, which will be located on a 70-hectare site in the industrial area Erfurt Cross. With an annual supply of 12 GWh in 2017, CATL is number one in the global automotive battery industry.

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We began tracking the first technology, nanosheet transistors , in 2017. You’d expect the three companies DARPA funded to come up with a chip, though there was no guarantee they’d commercialize it,” says Moore, who wrote “ Chips to Compute With Encrypted Data Are Coming.” “But Forrest was a founder of Universal Display Corp.,

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As such, this industry has an urgent need to reduce its environmental impact. Mærsk and Wallenius Wilhelmsen have teamed up with the University of Copenhagen and major customers including BMW Group, H&M Group, Levi Strauss & Co. Neither lignin nor ethanol separately are currently major biofuel options for the shipping industry.

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JULY 10, 2018

GWh in 2017—making it Nº 1 globally. CATL will invest €240 million by 2022 in the German plant, which will be located on a 70-hectare site in the industrial area Erfurt Cross. With an annual supply of 12 GWh in 2017, CATL is number one in the global automotive battery industry.

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At CeBIT 2017 in Hanover, Volkswagen and D-Wave will be announcing their strategic cooperation and, as a world premiere, demonstrating a software program that optimizes traffic flow on a quantum computer. Earlier this month, IBM announced an industry-first initiative to build commercially available universal quantum computing systems.

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Researchers have demonstrated how to create a super-strong aluminum alloy (nanotwinned Al-Fe) that rivals the strength of stainless steel, an advance with potential applications in the automotive and aerospace industries. The microprojectile tests were performed by a research group at Rice University, led by professor Edwin L.

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Researchers at Feng Chia University in Taiwan have engineered the bacterium Escherichia coli to produce n-butanol from crude glycerol—a byproduct of the production of biodiesel. Overall, the team concluded, the technology platform may be useful for the economic viability of glycerol-related industries. g/L/h, respectively.

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In a 2010 paper published in the ACS journal Nano Letters , researchers from Nanotek Instruments, Ångström Materials and Dalian University of Technology (China) observed that graphene is an outstanding candidate electrode material for supercapacitors. Jorgensen served as Technical Fellow in General Motors R&D labs until July 2017.

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In November 2017, Enerkem received approval from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to sell cellulosic ethanol produced at its Edmonton facility under the US Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS). Enerkem operates a full-scale commercial facility in Alberta as well as an innovation centre in Québec. Earlier post.).

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Researchers at Purdue University have created a new type of non-liquid lubricant—a novel graphene-zinc oxide composite—that has been shown to reduce friction and wear significantly under the extreme conditions found in various applications, from air compressors to missile systems. Purdue University image/ Abdullah A.

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The move has been welcomed by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy as a significant step forward in the UK’s contribution to reducing carbon emissions. What will be the UK’s largest independent vehicle battery manufacturer will open in early 2019 in Coventry.

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Christopher Davis Codeveloper of a lunar retroreflector Life Fellow, 78; died 1 April Davis taught engineering at the University of Maryland in College Park for 48 years. He left two years later and joined the faculty in the University of Maryland’s electrical and computer engineering department.

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Previously, robot development focused primarily on industrial robots in factories and other workplaces fulfilling tasks in place of humans. In 2015, Toyota established the HSR Developers’ Community in collaboration with multiple universities and research institutes.

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The 30 MW wind park is currently under construction and start of electricity production is expected in late 2017. The pilot in Scotland will provide a technological and commercial foundation for the implementation of Batwind in full-scale offshore wind farms, opening new commercial opportunities in a growing market.

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where UPS will validate its design and core performance requirements by testing it on the street starting the third quarter of 2017. The challenge we face with fuel cell technology is to ensure the design can meet the unique operational demands of our delivery vehicles on a commercial scale.

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The Peloton project, led by Purdue University ( earlier post ) will apply next-generation truck platooning technology and concepts for smart, cloud-connected powertrains to achieve 20% fuel savings for tractor-trailers. Our first truck platooning system is coming to market in 2017.

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Once completed in 2019, the scale-up and research facility will be used to develop, test and industrialize lithium-ion battery cells before large-scale production. Northvolt has entered into strategic industrial partnerships with ABB, Vestas and Scania. During the past 12 months it has made progress towards achieving the goal.

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The commercial impact of solving quantum systems is in chemistry, material science, and pharma.” But a recent study suggests that quantum computers will be able to simulate quantum phenomena of interest to several industries well before they can make headway in those other applications. One alternative to cobalt is nickel.

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They have patented and scaled-up the process in lab demonstrations and are working with ORNL’s licensee Momentum Technologies to scale the process further to produce commercial batches of rare earth oxides. No commercialized process currently recycles pure rare earth elements from electronic-waste magnets. —Ramesh Bhave.

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Projects selected through this solicitation will complement DOE’s Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) research started in FY 2017. The technical targets of the project include demonstrating a 10% improvement in cycle average and peak brake thermal efficiency over the current commercially available product; maintaining 0.02

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A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge has reported the light-driven photoreforming of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin to H 2 using semiconducting cadmium sulfide quantum dots in alkaline aqueous solution. Wakerley, Moritz F. Wakerley, Moritz F. Kuehnel, Katherine L. Orchard, Khoa H. Ly, Timothy E. 2017.21.

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The UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) have awarded £598,000 (US$980,000) to micro-bead hydrogen storage company Cella Energy ( earlier post ) and its partners MIRA, Coventry University and Productiv to develop a hydrogen generation system to extend the range of battery electric vehicles.

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