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DOE labs study on costs and benefits of new transportation technologies the most comprehensive to date

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The report covers light-duty passenger vehicles as well as medium-/heavy-duty commercial vehicles: semi-tractors; medium-duty vans and pickups; transit buses; box, utility aerial and dump trucks; and garbage trucks. The study finds, for example, that battery electric vehicles have maintenance costs 40% lower than ICE vehicles.

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NREL report finds electrified heavy-duty vehicle powertrains could provide lower total cost of ownership than diesel under certain conditions

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A new total cost of ownership (TCO) study from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) finds that battery-electric and fuel-cell electric commercial trucks could be economically competitive with conventional diesel trucks by 2025 in some operating scenarios. —Chad Hunter, lead author of the report and former NREL researcher.

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The Race for the Next-Gen Space Station

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And who will lead the charge? million to three aerospace consortiums to develop a new “commercial low Earth orbit destination.” Northrop Grumman Keeping It Simple Starlab, from Nanoracks, Voyager Space, and Lockheed Martin, is a free-flying commercial space station concept. So what might a new station look like?

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Ioxus Introduces 1,000-, 3,000- and 5,000-Farad Ultracapacitor Cells with Higher Power Densities

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launched a new family of large cell prismatic electrochemical double layer capacitors (EDLC) for transportation and utility applications that are lower in cost for the overall system design. Chad Hall, Ioxus COO. Ioxus, Inc. Earlier post.). The ESR is the same as that of higher capacitance products.

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XALT Energy, HED develop XBV telematics system for battery-electric powertrains

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As commercial vehicle manufacturers and fleet owners transition to battery-electric powertrains, they must manage a new set of mobility variables. Fleet owners needed performance data about how battery-electric vehicles were being charged and driven; XALT decided to provide complete telematics service to its customers in a bid to help.

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Ioxus Developing Higher Power Density Ultracapacitors

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Ioxus , a young (2006) ultracapacitor spin-off from Custom Electronics, an established supplier of high-reliability capacitors to commercial and military clients since 1964, is targeting the development of higher power density, compact ultracapacitors, applied in a full range of applications spanning military, industrial and automotive needs.

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Yissum offering novel high-performance anode for sodium-ion batteries; antimony sulphide nanoparticle-coated graphene

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However, low capacity and poor rate capability of existing anodes have been major obstacles to the commercialization of NIBs. The material provides more than two times the capacity of hard carbon, retains its charge capacity even at high current rates, and exhibits a charge and discharge time of 10 minutes. Yu, Petr V.

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