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Electrify America to collaborate with 6 California organizations to boost awareness, adoption of ZEVs in low-income & disadvantaged communities

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The organizations collaborating with Electrify America on this initiative include Valley Clean Air Now (Valley CAN), Pacific Asian Consortium in Employment (PACE), Chinese Newcomers Service Center (CNSC), Self Help for the Elderly (SHE), Liberty Hill Foundation (LHF) and GRID Alternatives.

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DOE to Award $25M to Two Consortia for US-China Clean Energy Research with Combined Funding of $100M; Focus on EVs and Carbon Capture and Sequestration

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award two consortia—one led by the University of Michigan and one led by the West Virginia University—a total of $25 million over the next five years under the US-China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC). Chinese partners will be announced in the coming months by the Chinese government.

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Highlights from the fresh Day-to-day Force podcasts, Might 30-June 1

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.” — Shane Bigelow, CEO of Champ Titles, which has labored to put into effect a virtual titling device for West Virginia “These are important projects when it comes to our homeland security. Now is not the time to say, let’s continue to rely on them. Let’s start onshoring this work here.” — Michigan Gov.

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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. But sweetgums—including hybrids—have already adapted to grow in the region in a variety of sites.

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BYD: U.S. surrounding regulations may just worth American citizens out of EVs

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Ford will personal and perform the plant, generation CATL will license its generation with out taking an fairness stake — a offer that’s been dubbed through Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin as a “Trojan horse” for the Chinese language Communist Celebration. The post BYD: U.S.

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US and China Researchers Show New Approach to Hydrogen Storage; Applied Electric Field Can Significantly Improve H2 Storage and Reversibility Properties of Polarizable Substrates

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Using density functional theory, a team of researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University; Peking University in Beijing; and the Chinese Academy of Science in Shanghai has shown that an applied electric field can substantially improve the hydrogen storage properties of polarizable substrates. Image courtesy of Qian Wang, Ph.D./VCU.

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Toyota investing $1B in new TNGA plant in Mexico, realigning North American manufacturing; expansion in Guangzhou

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90-million investment at Buffalo, West Virginia plant. Toyota views it as vital to further improve the competitiveness of the existing lines and respond to future demand for stable growth in the Chinese market. CA$100-million investment in Toyota’s Cambridge, Ontario plant to introduce hybrid production and increase capacity.

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