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DOE’s BETO holding four alternative fuel workshops over next three weeks

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The Demonstration and Deployment Strategy Workshop will be held 12–13 March at Argonne National Laboratory’s Advanced Photon Source conference center outside of Chicago, Illinois.

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Tesla’s Elon Musk sounds alarm on Lucid Motors: “They are not long for this world”

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Musk responded to the news then, noting that Rivian should first get its first plant at Normal, Illinois, working and optimized. . It’s insanely difficult to reach volume production at affordable unit cost,” Musk wrote. . “I’d recommend they get their first plant working.

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This Electric Fiat Spider Carries A $140,000 Price Tag

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Like many car enthusiasts, I spend more than my fair share of time idly perusing my local classifieds and hoping that I might — just might — one day find that perfect example of my dream car at a shockingly affordable price. Maybe some other poor bastard died and his widow is selling his 1991 […].

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Unraveling Electric Car Insurance Costs in 2023

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North Carolina takes the lead in affordability, with the cost difference between insuring an EV and a non-EV being a mere $11 per month. Mississippi, conversely, presents the largest gap, with an extra $79 per month on average required to insure an EV over a traditional vehicle.

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Transportation Electrification Accord sets out multi-sector roadmap to electrified future

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Fortune 100 companies, including automakers and utilities, have joined labor groups, consumer advocates, environmental organizations and others to sign the Transportation Electrification Accord — a written set of principles meant to inspire and continue the conversation around electrified transportation.

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DOE selects 9 universities for about $2.7M in advanced coal technologies research awards

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Southern Illinois University will partner with the Gas Technology Institute to verify the novel use of titanium carbide and titanium diboride powders as coatings for enhanced corrosion protection on (AUSC) boiler and turbine components. DOE Share: $300,000). Improved Structural Materials. University of Toledo.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to help catalyze the agency’s research, development, demonstration, and deployment efforts into affordable, market-ready energy solutions, by strengthening partnerships between DOE’s National Labs and American entrepreneurs. Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois).