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Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

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Deep below the Louisville, Ky., A series of three preliminary circuit events would give teams experience with each environment. Six months later, at the Urban Circuit event, held at an unfinished nuclear power station in Satsop, Wash., zoo lies a network of enormous caverns carved out of limestone. The caverns are dark.

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ARPA-E awarding $36M to 22 projects in RANGE program for transformative EV storage

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Some of the projects selected will focus on developing robust battery chemistries and architectures that would improve vehicle driving range and overall battery robustness. For example, Solid Power located in Louisville, CO will receive approximately $3.5 Multifunctional Battery Chassis Systems. 3,459,250.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", Batteries powerful enough to achieve that would fill up the trunk of a car, he said. Detroit News ).

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