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Tesla could have its key to cheaper EVs as soon as this year thanks to Panasonic

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Panasonic is one of the more notable battery production companies in the EV space, along with CATL, a Chinese-based company that has been the world’s largest producer of batteries in terms of gigawatt-hours for several years. Tesla battery supplier Panasonic teases new U.S. I’d love to hear from you!

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New hybrid sweetgum trees could boost paper, bioenergy production

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Researchers at the University of Georgia (UGA) have crossed American sweetgums with their Chinese cousins, creating hybrid sweetgum trees that have a better growth rate and denser wood than natives, and can produce fiber year-round.

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Researchers find “zip-lignin” native to multiple plant species; potential for new approaches to degrading lignin for biorefineries

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University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of biochemistry John Ralph, Shawn Mansfield, Curtis Wilkerson, and other Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) researchers had engineered poplar trees to express a gene from Chinese angelica encoding a feruloyl–coenzyme A (CoA) monolignol transferase (AsFMT).

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