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Automakers and suppliers part of DOE Better Climate Challenge

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This national public-private partnership calls on organizations across the country to set portfolio-wide greenhouse gas reduction targets and share their innovative solutions and best practices with partners and across industries. Cleveland-Cliffs. Commitment. GHG reduction. Energy Intensity reduction. Minimum 50%. BorgWarner.

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US DOT awards $13.6M to 8 projects to advance fuel cell technology for transit industry

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million in federal funding to 8 projects to advance the commercialization of American-made fuel cell buses for the transit industry. million) and the Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE), two non-profit organizations that are responsible for developing and managing projects as part of the National Fuel Cell Bus Program.

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IHS Markit sees supply crunch coming for electrical steel; potential disruptor of OEM electrification plans

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Cleveland-Cliffs is the only US producer of NOES via its 2020 acquisition of AK Steel; Cliff’s NOES and GOES manufacturing share common production equipment. Cleveland-Cliffs is focused more on GOES production to address the increasing regional demand for electrical transformers, thus reducing available xEV-grade NOES capacity.

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NASA and Virgin Orbit 3D print, test rocket combustion chamber

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The company partnered with NASA experts in combustion and additive manufacturing (3D printing) at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama; Glenn Research Center in Cleveland; and Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. GRCop-84 (Cu-8 at.%

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UPS to add more than 6,000 natural gas trucks 2020-2022; $450M investment

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As part of the new agreement, Agility will provide complete end-to-end natural gas systems for heavy-duty gas trucks, terminal tractors and medium-duty walk-in vans, which are UPS’s familiar brown delivery trucks. Houston, Texas, and Cleveland, Ohio.

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Alcoa opens 3D printing metal powder plant

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Located at the Alcoa Technology Center, the world’s largest light metals research center, the plant will produce proprietary titanium, nickel and aluminum powders optimized for 3D printed aerospace parts. Metal powders used for 3D printing durable, high-quality aerospace parts are available in limited quantities. Earlier post.).

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NASA signs agreements with German, Canadian partners to study emissions from alternative jet fuels

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and the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. This research supports the strategic vision of NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, part of which is to enable the transition of the aviation industry to alternative fuels and low-carbon propulsion systems.

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