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Biden administration announces $1B fund to support EV automakers

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The Biden Administration announced a joint initiative with Monroe Capital LLC to launch a $1 billion fund to help small to medium-sized auto suppliers shift from gasoline-powered to electric vehicles. The White House and Monroe are calling their joint initiative the Drive Forward Fund.

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Lux Research: despite cheap oil, niche plug-in vehicle sales will be resilient; conventional hybrids to be hardest hit

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However, an analysis by Lux Research suggests that despite some decrease in sales, sales of plug-in vehicles will likely be resilient, and rebound as oil prices rise back to the prior higher levels over time. For car buyers, this plummeting oil index results is lower gasoline prices when refueling. gallon to about $2.1/gallon.

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Used Electric Vehicles – Affordable and Available

Plug N Drive

At Plug’n Drive, we have lots of visitors come to the EV Discovery Centre , waxing poetic about electric cars, that they are the future of transportation, but they are too expensive and out of reach for most consumers. We now also have Canada’s $5,000 federal electric vehicle incentive , which makes a new EV even more attractive.

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Waterloo power management strategy greatly enhances durability of on-board fuel cells in FC-PHEV

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Researchers at the University of Waterloo (Canada), with a colleague in Sweden, have used a power management strategy greatly to extend the durability of onboard fuel cells in a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle: an increase of 1.8, The arrows in the diagram indicate the electrical connection for the power flow. 2019.02.040.

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Fraunhofer suggests e-scooters as application for its magnesium hydride paste hydrogen storage technology

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Hydrogen is not currently an option for small vehicles such as electric scooters and motorcycles, since the pressure surge during refilling would be too great. This means that POWERPASTE can offers a range comparable to—or even greater than—gasoline. This makes it suited for areas lacking such an infrastructure.

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Slowing EV uptake may delay Panasonic’s EV battery expansion, says CEO – ET Auto

Baua Electric

A slowdown in the take-up of electric vehicles in the U.S. The transition to EVs from cars running on gasoline has hit a rough patch globally as consumers slow the pace at which they switch to battery-powered vehicles amid inadequate infrastructure in some developed markets.

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HeatReCar project demonstrates technical feasibility of thermoelectric generator for waste heat recovery; economic case more difficult

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The project “Reduced energy consumption by massive thermoelectric waste heat recovery in light-duty trucks” ( HeatReCar ) focused on thermoelectrics to provide electricity, either to on-board components or to the power train of hybrid electric vehicles. g CO 2 /km reduction) with a peak thermoelectric electric power of 150 W e.

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