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Volvo Trucks, UMN partner with local fleets for extreme weather field testing of Volvo VNR Electric truck batteries

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Volvo Trucks North America is working with the University of Minnesota (UMN) to conduct extreme weather testing for its Class 8 VNR Electric model to analyze the impact of ambient temperature on a truck’s battery life.

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Who Will Free EV Motors from the Rare Earth Monopoly?

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Their mining and processing comes at an environmental cost , and China holds a near-monopoly stake in them. Ayman El-Refaie, Marquette University Now a sleeper option, synchronous reluctance motors , is getting a surge of interest, thanks to materials-science breakthroughs at GE Aerospace.

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The EV Transition Explained: Can the Grid Cope?

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Supplies for distribution transformers are low, and costs have skyrocketed from $3,000 to $4,000 to $20,000 each. This situation is not true universally. trillion in capital, operations, and maintenance costs by 2035. Given that most of the millions of U.S. million miles of power lines.

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EV Chargers for All!

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Harry’s 200-unit condominium building in Minneapolis, Minn., They rejected my request to allow cyclists to hose off their bikes in the alley behind the building, which cost nothing. Nor is it surprising, as a University of California, Berkeley study found, that homeowners purchase EVs at nearly six times the rate of renters.

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New yeast engineered by BESC, Mascoma could accelerate production of cellulosic ethanol

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The results were presented at the 31 st International Fuel Ethanol Workshop this week in Minneapolis. The ability to partner the combined expertise at Mascoma and BESC in engineering microbes to release and convert sugars from lignocellulosic biomass has greatly accelerated the translation of basic research outcomes to a commercial product.

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Summer Update

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A large coalition has formed around the issues of national security, combating climate change, saving on fuel costs and increasing business for American agriculture. NGO's The campaign initially began by focusing on the 50 largest cities in the U.S., but it has grown far beyond this point.