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

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The substantial early activity in fuel cell vehicles has led up to the broad goal of providing FCEVs to the general public in a mass scale starting from 2018; Hyundai is looking to have approximately 10,000 units in place (cumulative) in Korea alone (and more elsewhere) around 2025. This is planned to increase in the future.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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Juneau, the Capital City of Alaska, has a clean, renewable source of energy, local hydropower. AVTA is committed to having an all electric fleet by 2018. CUMTD will produce hydrogen on-site partially from renewable sources. South Carolina Department of Transportation. State of Colorado Department of Transportation.

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University at Buffalo-led team reports viable Mn-based catalyst for PEM fuel cells

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Additional authors come from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Oregon State University, University of Pittsburgh, University of South Carolina, Giner Inc. The research was supported the UB RENEW Institute, the US National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy.

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How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

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grid-scale batteries and pumped-hydro facilities, to hold the excess renewable power being generated, and interconnecting that storage with high-voltage transmission lines, so that supply can meet demand across the grid. Packetized energy management (PEM) allows the power grid to flexibly handle a varying supply of renewable energy.

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Scientists use machine learning and HiTp to speed discovery of metallic glasses by 200 times; approach applicable to other materials

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In addition to SLAC, NIST and Northwestern, scientists contributing to this study came from the University of Chicago’s Computation Institute, the University of South Carolina and the University of New South Wales in Australia. The CAMERA project at Berkeley Lab is supported by the DOE Office of Science.

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