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

Green Car Congress

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 University of Houston. Princeton University.

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Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

Cars That Think

Deep below the Louisville, Ky., Six months later, at the Urban Circuit event, held at an unfinished nuclear power station in Satsop, Wash., By the time teams reached the SubT Final Event in the Louisville Mega Cavern, the focus was on autonomy rather than communications. The caverns are dark. They’re dusty. They’re humid.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The advanced technology vehicle would have an extended driving range on battery power alone and would also have a diesel or gasoline engine that could power the car when the battery was low. Batteries powerful enough to achieve that would fill up the trunk of a car, he said. 11/11/06 General Motors Corp.

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