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Amazon begins deploying its Rivian electric delivery vehicles

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Amazon has begun deploying its custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian for package delivery, with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities.

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Rivian’s Amazon EV delivery van will drop packages in 100 cities by end of 2022

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by the end of the year, including Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities,” the e-commerce giant said. Rivian builds its vehicles in Normal, Illinois. Along with the EDV, it builds the R1T , an all-electric truck, and R1S, an all-electric SUV.

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USDA and DOE award $12.2M to 10 research projects to accelerate bioenergy crop production and spur economic impact

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The 10 projects are located in California, Colorado, Illinois, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Virginia: Association Mapping of Cell Wall Synthesis Regulatory Genes and Cell Wall Quality in Switchgrass. Mockler, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Sacks, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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PNNL-led team designs highly active cobalt-based PGM-free catalyst for fuel cells

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The new catalyst contains cobalt interspersed with nitrogen and carbon. Here we report an atomically dispersed Co and N co-doped carbon (Co–N–C) catalyst with a high catalytic oxygen reduction reaction activity comparable to that of a similarly synthesized Fe–N–C catalyst but with a four-time enhanced durability. —Yuyan Shao.

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DOE awards $100M in 2nd funding round for 32 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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The centers selected for the second round of funding will help lay the scientific groundwork for fundamental advances in solar energy, electrical energy storage, carbon capture and sequestration, materials and chemistry by design, biosciences, and extreme environments. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. FY 2014 EFRC Awards.

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The Tailwinds Behind Massive Growth of EV Charging

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EV Connect is proud to call California home, as the state continues to lead the way as a global proponent of vehicle electrification, including a statewide Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) carbon credit program. Louis and Boston to Florida and Illinois. Already, the U.S.