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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). The consortium will focus on vehicle electrification.

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

Baua Electric

.” — 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

Green Car Congress

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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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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Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

EV Match

half a world away, the Chinese island of Hainan announced it would ban sales of fossil fuel-powered vehicles a full five years earlier, by 2030. manufacturing (some of which overlaps with the EV-related aspects – more on that in a moment) appeared all but doomed earlier this summer.