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NASA adds 14 new partners to Advanced Air Mobility project’s National Campaign; urban air mobility

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Thirteen companies and one university have signed agreements with NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) project’s National Campaign to continue work towards integrating air taxis, cargo delivery aircraft and other new air vehicle concepts into the national airspace system. SkyGrid, and The University of North Texas. Background.

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$50M Battery500 consortium targeting battery pack with specific energy of 500 Wh/kg

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The multi-disciplinary consortium includes leaders from DOE national labs, universities and industry, all of which are working together to make smaller, lighter and less expensive batteries that can be adopted by manufacturers. Binghamton University (State University of New York). Stanford University.

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OSU study finds varied impact of pandemic on public transit use across US

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A study by researchers at The Ohio State University suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic had varying effects on demand for public transit in US cities. Fitted curve and key parameters for an example public transit agency (Capital Metro in Austin, Texas). We need to build our public transit systems to serve these people.

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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 Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute awards ~$10M to 10 projects

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The selected organizations (and project descriptions) from this first call selection are: University of Connecticut. Penn State University. The proposed idea is to build a small scale process simulator, with both machinery and software components, which mimics aspects of a smart manufacturing system for educational purposes.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. The best we can do is to build tools that allow us to explore possible futures.”

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Hydro-Québec, Université de Montréal, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Süd-Chemie create entity for sublicensing of lithium iron phosphate battery materials; 4 new sublicensees

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LFP material was discovered at the University of Texas in Austin in 1995 and licensed to Hydro-Québec. The latter has undertaken to build and operate an industrial-size manufacturing plant in the province of Québec, Canada. —and two Taiwanese entities—Tatung Fine Chemicals Co. Ltd (ALEEES).

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