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DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

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million through the Advanced Vehicle Power Technology Alliance to support projects specifically focused on advanced high-voltage electrolytes for batteries and advanced engine and powertrain technologies to improve vehicle fuel efficiency. Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. West Virginia University Research Corporation.

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Ferrari’s Plug-in Hybrid One-Ups the Combustion Engine

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Our electric power trains are not there just to counter regulations but also to improve performance in a way which would not have been possible by using ICE power trains only.”. Spinning at up to 25,000 rpm, two permanent-magnet motors independently power the front wheels, or regenerate energy from braking to recharge the batteries.

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