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South Dakota School of Mines & Technology vying to establish international center for solid-state batteries

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The South Dakota School of Mines & Technology is vying to establish an international center to develop solid-state batteries which will be safer, cheaper, smaller and more efficient than lithium ion batteries. Each university received $15,000 of the planning grant.

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J.D. Power: US growing increasingly divided on EV adoption

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Meanwhile, the states with the lowest levels of EV adoption—Michigan, Iowa, Kansas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Wyoming, Louisiana, South Dakota, West Virginia and North Dakota—have gone in the opposite direction, with adoption rates declining on average in the first half of 2023.

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BP selects Tesla batteries for pilot storage project at US wind farm

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BP Wind Energy, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Rolling Thunder I Power Partners LLC, has signed a purchase agreement to install a high-storage battery at its Titan 1 Wind Farm in South Dakota. The battery storage project is expected to launch at the site during the second half of 2018.

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Carbon emissions from generating electricity for electric vehicles vary greatly across the individual US states

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by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research The overall advantage of battery electric over gasoline vehicles, in terms of well-to-wheels emissions of greenhouse gases, has been well documented. 47 South Dakota 25.3 The entries are on the same scale as in the table above.) 2 Kentucky 143.1 3 Missouri 139.2 4 Hawaii 137.1

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Beneficial Electrification League launches rural electric school bus initiative

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Sioux Valley Energy (representing South Dakota co-op consumer-members). New Hampshire Electric Cooperative (representing New Hampshire co-op consumer-members). Roanoke Electric Cooperative (representing North Carolina co-op consumer-members). Trico Electric Cooperative, Inc. representing Arizona co-op consumer-members).

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Georgia Tech team develops AI to read EV charging station reviews to find infrastructure gaps

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These communities are mostly located in states in the West and Midwest, such as Oregon, Utah, South Dakota, and Nebraska, along with Hawaii. They also found that micropolitan areas, where the population is between 10,000 and 50,000 people, may be underserved, with more frequent reports of station availability issues.

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DOT and DOE announce nearly $5B over 5 years for new national EV charging network; $615M in FY2022

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North Dakota. South Carolina. South Dakota. 20,739,853. Pennsylvania. 25,386,631. Puerto Rico. Rhode Island. 10,360,855. 13,074,884. 60,356,706. 15,745,244. Washington. 10,489,110. West Virginia. 11,642,061.