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Toyota chairman predicts EVs will only reach 30 percent market share

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Last week during the Tokyo Auto Salon conference, Toyoda stated that there was still a role for gas engines in achieving carbon neutrality , adding that BEVs weren’t the only way to reach climate goals. Toyota increases North Carolina battery plant investment by $8 billion What are your thoughts?

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EV News keeps on coming

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EV chargers Take it with you British start-up ZipCharge introduced Go , its portable EV charger, at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow. EV conversions Back to the past in NC Flux Hybrids, a North Carolina start-up, converts ICE cars to electric by simply adding electric power to the existing power range.

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UT Austin researcher awarded $15M for switchgrass traits studies

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One of the really interesting things with these grasses is that the climate in which they have found themselves has changed a lot over the last several hundred thousand years. As glaciers and climate change occurred, their populations were pushed south. And as glaciers retreated, the populations expanded north. hallii var.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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Another, who at the time was a junior faculty member at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, recalled the thoughtful, critical input and encouragement Dresselhaus provided about her research during a visit to the faculty member’s lab. More than 50 of her papers are in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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conferring hydrocarbon biosynthesis, enhanced carbon. North Carolina State. Jet Fuel From Camelina Sativa : A Systems Approach North Carolina State University will engineer the oilseed crop. for climate control in automobiles. batteries for effective climate control of electric vehicles. University.

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