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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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The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $19 million for 13 projects in traditionally fossil-fuel-producing communities across the country to support production of rare earth elements and critical minerals essential to the manufacturing of batteries, magnets, and other components important to the clean energy economy.

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LLNL-led team to use microorganisms to separate and purify rare-earth elements; biomining

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Rare earths bearing core sample drilled at La Paz, Arizona. The team will leverage advances in microbial and biomolecular engineering to develop a scalable bio-based separation and purification strategy for rare-earth elements (REEs) using under-developed domestic sources. Image courtesy of American Rare Earths Ltd/ photographer Dane Rhys.

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Delphi Technologies invests in innovative capacitor start-up PolyCharge

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Package space is at a premium in today’s vehicles and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) face challenges with space, weight and cost in tight engine compartments. All of this happens in one production machine—eliminating the need for extruded films, film metallization, and capacitor winding.

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Lucid faces difficult Q1 income questions later gradual gross sales

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The business newcomer delivered simply 1,406 automobiles within the January-March duration, neatly shy of the occasion had to meet its full-year forecast of between 10,000 and 14,000 Breeze sedans from its Arizona manufacturing unit. Within the wind-up to Monday’s income name, traders submitted questions for attention. .”

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The unique role some Tribal nations are taking in the EV transition

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As an example, Northern Arapaho member Patrick Lawson has been leading an effort to install EV chargers at the Wind River Reservation and other areas of Wyoming with his Wild West EV company. The benefits that Tribal communities bring to the clean transportation movement are not limited to access to EVs and EV charging infrastructure alone.

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11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023

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The station, called Fengning and located about 200 kilometers north of Beijing, will store up to 40 gigawatt-hours of energy, and help keep the grid on clean energy when the wind isn’t blowing or the sun’s not shining. United States’ Wind on the Wire The largest renewable-energy infrastructure project in U.S.

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Maxwell Technologies to double ultracap electrode production capacity by year end

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The new electrode plant will be housed in a 123,000 square-foot facility the company has leased in Peoria, Arizona, near Phoenix. A third contract manufacturer assembles Maxwell’s HC family of small cell products, which range from one to 150 farads, and are used mainly in industrial electronics applications.

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