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DOE announces Stage 1 CABLE Conductor Manufacturing Prize Winners

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These conductivity-enhanced materials have the potential to lower the costs and impacts of adding renewables and electric cars to the grid, maximize next-generation energy storage technologies, and support electrification for energy-intensive sectors. Advanced Manufacturing Office.?.

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DOE announces up to $64M to advance H2@Scale in new markets

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Hydrogen can add value to industrial sectors such as steel and ammonia production, spur baseload power sources such as nuclear, and accelerate the integration of renewables in the energy system. Opportunities also exist in large-energy use applications for mobility, such as trucks, rail and marine, as well as in energy storage.

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DOE issues $10M incubator FOA for batteries, power electronics, engines, materials, fuels and lubricants

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The FOA will give equal consideration to all proposals submitted, including submissions that address the following Areas of Interest: Energy Storage R&D. As described in multiple DOE reports, the main barriers to widespread PEV commercialization are the cost; performance and life; and abuse tolerance of high?

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DOE awards $17M for vehicle technologies; batteries, PEEM, engines, materials, fuel

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The newly selected projects are in five areas: energy storage; power electronics and electric motors (PEEM); advanced combustion engines; materials technologies, and fuels and lubricant technologies. Energy storage (Area of Interest 1). Power electronics and electric motors (Area of Interest 2). Technology.

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DOE to issue $47M FY17 Vehicle Technologies program-wide funding opportunity

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Analysis suggests that cost parity between electric drive and internal combustion vehicles is possible under certain scenarios when battery pack costs fall below $125/kWh (useable energy). kW/kilogram; power density of ≥4.0 DOE is putting particular emphasis on meeting the cost target. Battery500 Seedling Projects.

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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 enable diesel-like efficiency and increased maximum power output in a gasoline engine by using a secondary fuel to suppress engine knock under high load. This project will develop a new process that enables low-cost, domestic manufacturing of magnesium. Plasan Carbon Composites. UChicago Argonne LLC.

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$3M Award Supports Production of New Multi-tasking Fuzzy Fiber Nanomaterial; Energy Applications

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Nicknamed “fuzzy fiber” by its inventor at UDRI, Nano Adaptive Hybrid Fabric (NAHF-XTM) is the first tailored nanomaterial capable of being produced in sizes and quantities large enough to make them affordable and viable for large-scale commercial use. Everybody is growing carbon nanotubes on substrates. Khalid Lafdi. Brian Rice.