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NASA selects four university teams for aviation projects; eliminating emissions and autonomy research

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NASA has selected four university-led teams for potential awards in the agency’s University Leadership Initiative (ULI) that will have them spend up to five years exploring novel ideas for improving aviation, including eliminating emissions and autonomy research in support of Advanced Air Mobility. Florida State University.

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GM and SAE International select 8 NA universities for new autonomous vehicle competition; Bolt EV the platform

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At WCX 17: SAE World Congress Experience, SAE International and General Motors announced the eight North American universities which will compete in the upcoming AutoDrive Challenge. The participating universities are: Kettering University. Michigan State University. Michigan Tech. North Carolina A&T University.

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BMW opens new Shanghai R&D center; focus on human-machine interaction and hardware-software integration

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Today, more than 3,200 designers and engineers, NEV and software specialists are creating leading-edge innovations in close collaboration with Chinese tech players, start-ups, local partners as well as academia. The BMW Group established its first battery center outside of Germany with full battery capabilities in China in 2017.

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ion Ventures and LiNa Energy conclude successful test of solid-state sodium-nickel battery platform

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E4Tech, a London-based clean-tech specialist consultancy, performed an independent, strategic scoping study of stationary grid storage application based upon LiNa’s technology. LiNa Energy was formed in the summer of 2017 as a spin-out of Lancaster University.

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DOE Lab, partners find high concentrations of rare earth elements in American coal basins

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The discovery was made in partnership with West Virginia University (WVU), the University of Kentucky (UK), Tetra Tech, and the XLight Corporation. These recovery projects began in October 2017 and will use materials from the high-REE containing coal basins as feedstocks. —US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry.

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DENSO partners with and invests in FLOSFIA to develop next-gen gallium oxide power semiconductor devices for electrified vehicles

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a tech startup spun out from Kyoto University, are partnering to develop a next-generation power semiconductor device expected to reduce the energy loss, cost, size and weight of inverters used in electrified vehicles (EVs). Kentaro Kaneko, Masaya Oda, Toshimi Hitora, Shizuo Fujita (2017) “Corundum-structured ?-Ga

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E.ON to provide 10MW battery storage unit to Tucson Electric

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The Iron Horse Battery Energy Storage Project will be located adjacent to the University of Arizona Science and Technology Park southeast of Tucson. The project is expected to be completed in the first half of 2017. MW Tech Park Solar and 13.2 In addition to supplementing TEP’s grid management, E.ON

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