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DOE awards $17M for vehicle technologies; batteries, PEEM, engines, materials, fuel

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University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Micro-Jet Enhanced Ignition for High Efficiency Lean-Burn Combustion This project will develop and test a micro-jet enhanced fuel injection and combustion system. Fuels and lubricants (Area of Interest 5). Alternative Fuel Ignition. . $1,450,000. RMX Technologies.

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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 new investments will go toward a wide range of research, development, and demonstration projects that aim to reduce the price and improve the efficiency of plug-in electric, alternative fuel, and conventional vehicles. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Area of Interest 3). 684,236 (jointly funded).

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DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

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SuperTruck II builds on the successful SuperTruck I program, which has already led to more than twenty fuel saving technologies that have reached the commercial market, said Acting Assistant Secretary David Friedman. Illinois Institute of Technology. The Department of the Army is contributing an additional $2.2 Drive Oregon.

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