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UK chooses to axe electric vehicle grant programs as popularity skyrockets

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Effective immediately, the United Kingdom has announced it will no longer supply EV grants for most consumer purchases. The grant system, launched in 2011 as part of a system to kick start the EV sector in the UK, has ended for most consumers, only leaving grants available for vehicles in niche and commercial uses.

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8 Reasons Government Grants Should Include Funding for Level 1 Charging Infrastructure

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As we wait for Congress to fully return from their recess and vote on various legislation, I continue to be extremely concerned about how as much as $10 billion in federal government grants will be be spent on EV charging infrastructure. But as I outlined in my recent article, How Many EV Charging Stations Will $10 Billion Buy for America? ,

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ECS announces 2023-2024 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship recipients

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Yaocai Bai is an R&D Associate Staff Scientist pursuing postdoctoral research at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) under the supervision of Dr Ilias Belharouak in the Emerging and Solid-State Batteries Group. He is the author of 56 articles with an h-index of 42 and holds three patents.

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Computational first-principles approach identifies dozens of new platinum-group alloys

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The platinum-group metals (PGMs)—osmium, iridium, ruthenium, rhodium, platinum, and palladium—play essential roles in a wide variety of industrial applications. The study appears in the American Physical Society journal Physical Review X and is highlighted in a Viewpoint article in the journal Physics. N00014-13-1-0635, No.

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Aptera acquires funding to start production

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But they might have secured nearly half of that funding via a California state grant. Aptera applied for a grant from the California Energy Commission earlier this year. What do you think of the article? Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns? Shoot me an email at william@teslarati.com.

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Tesla Giga Berlin critics are taking another stand with some new legal action

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This time, the environmental groups are complaining that their grievances against the EV maker’s facility were not given sufficient hearing by the higher court. Unfortunately for the two groups, the Berlin-Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court (OVG) deemed their urgent motion inadmissible.

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Arizona State Students Develop a Solar-Powered Air Filtration System

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The project was done through the Fulton Engineering Projects in Community Service in IEEE group. EPICS in IEEE provided a US $10,000 grant in July 2022 to deploy the systems. The students launched the initiative in 2020 after reading an article about the city’s air pollution in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization.

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