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

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Levelized cost of driving (LCOD) across powertrains for light-duty SUV, MY 2025. 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.

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Argonne study finds BEVs can have lowest scheduled maintenance costs, but highest cost of driving

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Among the many findings was that the estimated scheduled maintenance cost for a light-duty battery-electric vehicle (BEV) totals 6.1 LCOD across powertrains for light-duty SUV, MY2025. —Burnham et al. cents per mile, while a conventional internal combustion engine vehicle (ICEV) totals 10.1 cents per mile. Burnham et al.

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Northwestern team develops new approach to catalyst design using SPBCL and DFT; new HER catalyst 7x more active than Pt

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Currently, platinum-based (Pt) catalysts are the most effective and commonly used to facilitate a hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), which is, in part, the basis for how fuel cells are used to generate energy. —Professor Chad A. Mirkin, co-corresponding author. The global catalysis market is expected to reach $34.3 1800884115.

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Big Science tools for clean transportation: neutron scattering at ORNL

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Neutrons (along with protons) are fundamental particles that constitute the nucleus of most atoms (hydrogen being the exception). Another major difference is that the intensity of x-ray scattering increases with the electron density of a material; light elements such as hydrogen and lithium thus make very little contribution to scattering.