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United announces investment in, commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy; CO2-to-SAF

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United and United Airlines Ventures (UAV) announced an investment in and commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy. Under the commercial agreement, United has agreed to purchase at least 300 million gallons of SAF over 20 years from Dimensional. The company began construction on a CO 2 -to-fuels demo in Tucson, Arizona in 2021.

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Nikola and Republic Services end collaboration on electric refuse truck; 2,500-unit order cancelled

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After considerable collaboration and review, both companies determined that the combination of the various new technologies and design concepts would result in longer than expected development time, and unexpected costs. Nikola is also planning to break ground on its first commercial hydrogen station in 2021.

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DARPA selects 3 university teams to investigate small-footprint recycling of critical elements in e-waste; RPOD

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The teams will develop novel extraction chemistries and explore practical limits of yield, extraction efficiency, and purity to recover a selective list of critical elements from a feedstock representative of commercial and Department of Defense (DoD) e-waste. —Vishnu Sundaresan, RPOD program manager in DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office.

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DOE awards Nikola $1.7M to advance fuel cell membrane electrode assembly (MEA) development

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The joint grant was funded by the US Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Transportation Office under the recently announced FY19 Commercial Trucks and Off-Road Applications FOA. Testing will begin on Arizona roads this year with full production expected in late 2022. Younan Xia.

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DOE awards $15M to ASU-led Algae Testbed Public-Private Partnership; data for scale-up of algal fuels

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The US Department of Energy will award $15 million to the Arizona State University-led Algae Testbed Public-Private Partnership (ATP 3 ) for its Advancements in Sustainable Algal Production opportunity. Testbed facilities for the partnership are physically located in Arizona, Hawaii, California, Ohio and Georgia.

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EV Charger Manufacturing in the U.S… Why Does It Matter?

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billion in EV charging, $10 billion in clean transportation, and over $7 billion in EV battery components, critical minerals, and materials, t he surging growth in the EV industry is the perfect opportunity to put the Buy America concept into practice. facility in Tempe, Arizona.

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Heliostat Consortium announces 7 projects to receive combined $3.5M in funding; DOE launches Heliostat Prize

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The University of Arizona will integrate a DOE Small Innovative Projects in Solar (SIPS)-type reflector with a high-accuracy mount and tracking camera to demonstrate an accurately focused and centered image of the solar disc. Competitors are encouraged to form diverse, multidisciplinary teams while developing their concepts.

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