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QM Power and University of Kentucky demonstrate 50 kW/liter electric motor; DOE 2025 power density goal

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The announcement was made at the 2021 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE) by the joint team of researchers including Dr. Madhav Manjrekar, SMIEEE, of QM Power, who also holds a tenured faculty position at University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and Dr. Dan M. Ionel, FIEEE, who serves as the inaugural L. —Madhav Manjrekar.

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Fontaine Modification offers refrigerated trailer electrification through new strategic alliance with eNow

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The company’s expert technicians will install the systems at its facilities in Charlotte and Statesville, North Carolina; Springfield, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Dublin, Virginia; and Mineral Wells, West Virginia. In addition to environmental benefits, using eTRU technology reduces fuel and maintenance costs.

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Albemarle to build $180M lithium materials research facility in N Carolina

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The company also anticipates that enhanced process technologies developed at the ATP will unlock new lithium resources, increase sustainability by reducing energy and water use, and enable lithium recovery at end-of-life through cost-effective recycling.

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Camber Ridge opening $60M tire testing facility with 0.5-mile oval indoor track

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The new facility is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the midst of the region’s growing automotive research and manufacturing cluster. The facility aims to offer all the advantages of testing real tires on real surfaces, but with the precision, environmental control and repeatability of a laboratory environment.

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It’s too late to China-proof the lithium supply chain – ET Auto

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the Charlotte, North Carolina-based miner whose processing plant Yellen visited during her trip to Chile. Of the country’s two operating mines, one is owned by Beijing-based Sinomine Resource Group Co., Australia’s Liontown Resources Ltd. Take Albemarle Corp., Even in Canada, Chinese money has been crucial.

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Alabama Injection Project Aimed at Enhanced Oil Recovery, Testing Important Geologic CO2 Storage

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A recent study by Advanced Resources International of Arlington, Va., Denbury Resources Inc. and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, N.C.). estimates that approximately 64 million additional barrels of oil could be recovered from the Citronelle Field by using this tertiary recovery method.

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SLAC, Stanford team develops new catalyst for water-splitting for renewable fuels production; 100x more efficient than other acid-stable catalysts

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The researchers still don’t know exactly why this surface layer is so active, although the theorists, including SUNCAT graduate students Colin Dickens and Charlotte Kirk, have provided some ideas. Dickens, Kazunori Nishio, Yasuyuki Hikita, Joseph Montoya, Andrew Doyle, Charlotte Kirk, Aleksandra Vojvodic, Harold Y. Seitz, Colin F.

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