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DOE awards $875k Early Career Research Award to UMD professor; advancing alternative fuels research

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The highly competitive five-year grant, awarded through the DOE’s Gas Phase Chemical Physics program, recognizes rising stars in science. The grant supports researchers who show great promise and will be instrumental in meeting big scientific challenges.

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Biden Administration opens applications for $2.5B program funding the growth of EV charging infrastructure

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billion program, funding the expansion of battery electric vehicle charging stations and alternative fuel infrastructure in the United States. Department of Transportation is the “Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Discretionary Grant Program. The Biden-Harris Administration opened applications for its $2.5

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SunLine Transit receives $12.5M for five H2-powered buses, H2 generating station in Coachella Valley

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million grant to SunLine Transit Agency for five new zero-emission New Flyer hydrogen fuel cell buses. The grant also supports the development of the largest hydrogen fueling station in the US of its kind, from Hydrogenics, using electricity and renewable energy to generate clean hydrogen. million riders.

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DOE awarding $7.4M to 7 projects for medium-and heavy-duty EV and hydrogen corridor infrastructure plans

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Additionally, in coordination with the US Department of Transportation through the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, DOE announced its intent to release funding to address barriers to a cleaner, safer, more affordable, and more reliable Made in America EV charging network.

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DOE awards $1.1M to Penn State project to develop protective, self-healing layers for Li metal anodes

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million grant to develop a new lithium-ion conductor for the protection of lithium metal used in next-generation battery technologies for electric vehicles. The US Department of Energy Vehicle Technologies Office has awarded Donghai Wang, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, a $1.1-million Earlier post.).

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California state fleet reduces petroleum consumption 13% compared to 2003

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Key to this reduction has been the development and implementation of a plan that has improved the State fleet’s overall use of alternative fuels, the reduction of unneeded fleet vehicles, and reducing unnecessary vehicle miles traveled. This affords the State a better opportunity to manage fuel consumption and control costs.

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DEED advertising pays off

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We had a few donations from the community, but most of our funds came from a $3000 grant from Electrify America’s Normal Now.” A significant portion of the grant money went to printing 23,000 inserts that went out with city utility bills, with one side in English and one side in Spanish, Atherton explained.

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