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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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To help California mitigate its ever-growing wildfires, this year CalSEED has included companies that are innovating in technologies that will build wildfire resiliency into the grid. EV Life, LLC is building the first online platform that gives drivers everything they need to switch from gas to an electric car.

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Can Flow Batteries Finally Beat Lithium?

Cars That Think

An example, she says, is the task of balancing energy flows in the power grid. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) to build a prototype 1 kilowatt-hour nanoelectrofuel battery. and an expert in flow batteries. Their energy density is as little as 10 percent that of lithium-ion batteries.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The electric car features three different battery options, two different Lithium-based (LI) systems – A123Systems and Enerdel as well as a Sodium-Nickel battery Zebra (Mes-Dea). Creature comforts include air conditioning, power steering, sunroof, and electric windows and mirrors. safety requirements.