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DOE to award more than $7M to four projects to advance hydrogen storage

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The US Department of Energy is awarding more than $7 million to fund four 3-year projects in California, Washington and Oregon to advance hydrogen storage technologies to be used in fuel-cell-electric vehicles. The project will focus on improving carbon fiber composite materials and the design and manufacture of hydrogen storage tanks.

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DOE awards nearly $55M to advance fuel efficient vehicle technologies in support of EV Everywhere and SuperTruck

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding nearly $55 million for 24 projects to develop and deploy advanced vehicle technologies, supporting the Energy Department’s EV Everywhere Grand Challenge to make plug-in electric vehicles as affordable to own and operate as today’s gasoline-powered vehicles by 2022. General Motors.

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Tesla Offers ‘Sport’ Model…0-60 in 3.7 seconds!

Revenge of the Electric Car

Roadster Sport with optional clear-coat carbon fiber top. When I was a kid in Arab, Alabama, in 1965, I discovered slot cars. I remember the really fast cars had “re-wound&# motors, whatever that was. It’s re-wound motors again! Roadster Sport with optional clear-coat carbon fiber top.

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