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Sparkz to begin construction of gigafactory in West Virginia this year; cobalt-free battery

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Sparkz, a battery startup with exclusive licenses from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to produce domestic cobalt-free lithium batteries ( earlier post ), will begin construction in 2022 of a Gigafactory in West Virginia to commercialize its zero-cobalt battery. Sparkz was founded in late 2019. Earlier post.).

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Daimler Trucks’ Autonomous Technology Group adding testing center in New Mexico

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Daimler Trucks and Torc started their collaboration in spring 2019. Initial public road testing on highways began in September in southwest Virginia, where Torc is headquartered. Daimler Trucks has dozens of years of experience in testing and validating the durability, reliability and safety of commercial vehicles around the world.

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Zero-cobalt Li-ion battery maker SPARKZ announces site for W Va gigafactory

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SPARKZ, a battery startup with exclusive licenses from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to produce domestic cobalt-free lithium batteries, will begin manufacturing its zero-cobalt battery in Taylor County, West Virginia, eventually employing 350 workers. SPARKZ was founded in late 2019 and has been in innovation mode.

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2019 Keeling Curve Prize winners include Opus 12; conversion of CO2 into fuels and chemicals

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The Keeling Curve Prize (KCP) has selected 10 winners for 2019, among them Opus 12 (Berkeley, California) which is developing a device that recycles CO? It’s a capital-light solution that takes advantage of technology that has been commercialized for decades. into cost-competitive chemicals and fuels. Earlier post.).

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Battery startup Sparkz, United Mine Workers of America announce labor-management agreement for W Va Gigafactory

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Sparkz announced in March it will begin construction in 2022 of a Gigafactory in West Virginia to commercialize their zero-cobalt battery which will initially employ 350 workers and could grow to as many as 3,000. We have lost thousands of mining jobs over the last decade in West Virginia. Earlier post.).

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Daimler Trucks and Torc Robotics expand public road testing in the US for automated truck technology

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Initial public road testing started in southwest Virginia last year, where Torc is headquartered. The Autonomous Technology Group will continue to test the next generation of automated driving software in Virginia and will add the upcoming new routes to the data collecting. and in Stuttgart, Germany.

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Mitsubishi Power & Texas Brine partner on large-scale salt cavern storage for hydrogen to support decarbonization efforts in the eastern US

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The nation’s largest brine producer, Texas Brine, and its affiliates have salt positions in New York, Virginia, Texas and Louisiana that will enable access to major load centers in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and the Gulf Coast. Texas Brine gas storage cavern wellhead. Credit: Texas Brine Company). Texas Brine caerns available for storage.