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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Louisville, Colo. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Catalyst Leaching Resistance for the Oxidative Production of Biobased Chemicals, $335,000 Forge Nano, Louisville, Colo. Combustion Research & Flow Technology Inc.,

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National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries Opts for Kentucky Site for Li-ion Plant

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The National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries (NAATBatt) ( earlier post ) has selected a site in Hardin County, Kentucky to build a more than $600-million automotive lithium-ion battery plant. Tags: Batteries. Kentucky was selected over Texas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina.

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DARPA SubT Finals: Meet the Teams

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This week, we're at the DARPA SubTerranean Challenge Finals in Louisville KY, where more than two dozen Systems Track and Virtual Track teams will compete for millions of dollars in prize money and being able to say "we won a DARPA challenge," which is of course priceless. University of Nevada, Reno. University of California, Berkeley.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities. A 350 kW charging system could charge a 200-mile range battery in less than 10 minutes.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Batteries not ready. Hyundai Partnering with Korean battery companies for hybrids. 2010 Prius designed to be manufactured with NiMH or Lithium batteries.

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