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Xcel Energy wants 1.5M EVs in its service areas by 2030; 30x increase from today

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Xcel services customers in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North and South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. Our new, ambitious EV vision builds on this work as we continue to lead the clean energy transition and enhance the customer experience while keeping bills low.

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DOE awarding $71M to 20 RD&D projects to cut GHG emissions, expand EV infrastructure; $5M to Achates for opposed-piston 2-stroke hybrid

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Rural Reimagined: Building an EV Ecosystem and Green Economy for Transforming Lives in Economically Distressed Appalachia. A Solid State Technology Enabled Compact, Modular Design to Reduce DC Fast Charging Cost and Footprint. University of Wisconsin- Madison. . $5,222,326. Native Sun Community Power Development. 1,994,690.

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DOE selects 15 projects for $32M to advance lower-cost fusion concepts; ARPA-E BETHE

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Fusion energy technology holds great potential to be a safe, clean, reliable energy source, but research and development of fusion technology is often constrained by prohibitive costs. Winning BETHE projects are: Category A: Development of Lower-Cost Concepts. University of Wisconsin-Madison. University of Washington.

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ARPA-E awards $16M to 8 projects developing distributed generation systems; solid-oxide fuel-cell/engine hybrids

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The INTEGRATE program seeks to achieve this unprecedented efficiency level at an attractive cost by developing fuel cell and engine hybrid system concepts and enabling technologies. These systems could ultimately be used by both commercial and industrial end users—including hospitals, hotels, office buildings, factories, and others.

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Xcel Energy launches EV smart charging pilot in Colorado; Transportation Electrification Plan for New Mexico approved

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Xcel Energy provides the energy that powers millions of homes and businesses across eight Western and Midwestern states: Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. Xcel Energy will also build, own, and operate a limited number of public fast charging stations where gaps are identified.

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President Obama announces two new public-private manufacturing innovation institutes; new manufacturing innovation institute competition

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Obama also launched a competition for a new manufacturing innovation institute to build US strength in manufacturing advanced composites, the first of four new competitions to be launched this year. Low-cost advanced composites are also needed to make the storage tanks for vehicles that run on hydrogen and natural gas.

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US DOE awards more than $175M to 40 projects for advanced vehicle research and development

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This project will identify fuel properties that can be used to enable novel combustion strategies with low emissions of nitrogen oxides in an engine, and enhance existing models to capture the effect of additional key fuel properties on combustion. Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants LLC. Metal Oxygen Separation Technologies Inc.