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DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

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Williston Basin (Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota): University of North Dakota plans to lead a coalition to drive the expansion and transformation of coal and coal-based resource usage within the Williston Basin to extract rare earth elements and critical minerals and produce non-fuel carbon-based products. DOE Funding: $1,499,999.

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

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DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in collaboration with Ford Motor Company, Lincoln Composites, Toray Carbon Fibers America, Inc. The project will focus on improving carbon fiber composite materials and the design and manufacture of hydrogen storage tanks. and AOC Inc., University of Oregon, up to $2.0

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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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General Motors. This project will utilize a systems approach to design and demonstrate an ultra-lightweight carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites door assembly through the integration of unique designs, novel materials, and manufacturing technologies and joining/assembly of subsystems. Ford Motor. Description.

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

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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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