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

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For the most part, Elon Musk is supportive of other electric cars from fellow automakers. 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. .

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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).

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. At that point, we expect the aftermarket companies prices to have come down sufficiently so that their conversions will be attractive to owners of hundreds of thousands of hybrids already on the road. So far, most start as hybrids.

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Video Friday: Robots at Night

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Fraunhofer IPA ] This choreorobotics dance is part atavistic ceremony, part celestial conjuring, and part ecstatic romping. Illinois ] Thanks, Sheng! They need to be affordable enough to allow widespread access and adoption. I don’t know what your robots do at night, but at Fraunhofer, this is what they get up to.

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Electrifying Chicago’s Urban Residential Neighborhoods: 3 New Community Chargers

EV Match

It is exciting to see the variety and affordability of electric vehicles growing at the rate that they are, but we know it’s not enough. That’s why part of our mission at EVmatch is to make charging easy, reliable, and accessible to all. Illinois is all in. Clean Energy in Irving Park. Investment: from stakeholders to people.

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ARPA-E awards $55M to 18 projects in two new programs: TERRA for transportation energy and GENSETS for distributed generation

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The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $55 million in funding for 18 innovative projects as part of ARPA-E’s two newest programs: Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture (TERRA) and GENerators for Small Electrical and Thermal Systems (GENSETS).