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Cash for Volts?

Revenge of the Electric Car

By contrast, hybrid vehicles that mix traditional internal- combustion engines with electric power accounted for less than 3% of car sales in 2008, more than a decade after their introduction. Despite a high upfront cost, operating an electric vehicle is cheap, costing 2.5 starting next year.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

Green Car Congress

Their goal is to test an innovative electrolyzer concept for the cheap production of green (CO 2 -free) hydrogen for a decarbonized future. Topolonet Corporation is developing a software solution for real-time and accurate topology identification and state estimation of the transmission power grid.

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BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials, according to a new study on a unified African supply chain by BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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