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

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Hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles will reach cost parity with conventional vehicles as the price of hydrogen falls. Battery electric vehicles, meanwhile, will reach cost parity as battery prices drop. Overall, hybrid electric vehicles tend to be the lowest-cost powertrain. —David Gohlke.

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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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Chad Hunter, lead author of the report and former NREL researcher. Understanding these indirect costs is critical to understanding the full economic implications of a shift toward zero-emission transportation. —Hunter et al.

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Nth Cycle says its electroextraction tech significantly reduces transportation costs for Li-ion battery recycling

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Charged spoke with Megan O’Connor, the founder and CEO of Nth Cycle, about the company’s process and how it fits into the recycling industry. My co-founder Chad Vecitis, who’s now our VP of R&D, was a full-time professor at Harvard and actually developed this technology over 10 years ago.

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The Race for the Next-Gen Space Station

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And who will lead the charge? It said that without a working station, “the nascent low Earth orbit commercial space economy would likely collapse, causing cascading impacts to commercial space transportation capabilities, in-space manufacturing, and microgravity research.” So what might a new station look like? What is that? $50

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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. ultracapacitors - $62.

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US indicts 7 individuals and 3 companies in alleged $100M biodiesel RINs fraud in Indiana

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An additional defendant was charged by federal information and has petitioned the court to enter a plea of guilty and cooperate with investigators. In some cases, the biodiesel was transported from fuel terminals to the E-Biofuels facility in Middletown where it was unloaded into a holding tank. The defendants. The process.

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

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Factors such as the battery system’s state-of-charge (SOC), overall health, driving range and charging times are critical considerations in optimizing urban and long-haul transportation networks that rely upon this alternate fuel option. —Chad Repp, Business Development Manager, Telematics, HED. —Chad Repp.

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