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Joby completes initial FAA Systems, Compliance Reviews for eVTOL aircraft

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Joby Aviation, a California-based company developing all-electric aircraft for commercial passenger service, announced the completion and subsequent approval of its first Systems Review and its first Compliance Review by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

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DOE awarding $46M to 8 companies to support commercial fusion energy development

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These awardees will work to acheive important technical and commercialization milestones to advance successful design of a fusion pilot plant (FPP) to move fusion toward technical and commercial viability. Commercial fusion power on a decadal timescale with the compact, high-field ARC power plant. Tokamak Energy Inc.

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Ford opens E-Transit Registration site for commercial customers; new pricing

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Ford is opening an E-Transit registration site today for commercial customers ahead of order banks opening by July. To date, more than 450 commercial customers in North America, including 200 top fleets and fleet management companies, have said they’re interested in purchasing the E-Transit.

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Niron Magnetics raises $21.3M to commercialize rare-earth-free iron-nitride magnets

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The development process of Niron’s scalable method has resulted in the publication of 20 peer-reviewed scientific papers as well as 17 granted and 35 pending patents. Jian-Ping Wang (2020) “Environment-friendly bulk Fe 16 N 2 permanent magnet: Review and prospective,” Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, doi: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2019.165962.

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Full review: The new Volkswagen ID. Buzz

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Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has already begun sales in Europe and the first vehicles will be delivered to their owners this fall. Buzz is an avant-garde vehicle for families, active people […] The post Full review: The new Volkswagen ID. Buzz reflects a new era for motoring. There are two versions: the ID.

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Chalmers, Volvo Group team uses dynamic stochastic route planning to minimize electric commercial vehicle energy consumption

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Range anxiety with electric commercial vehicles is real, since running out of battery can have serious consequences. An open-access paper describing the study is published in the journal Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. We have developed systematic tools to learn optimal energy usage.

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NREL review explores potential value of EV managed charging for realizing effective vehicle-grid integration

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A team at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has completed a literature review on the potential value of EV managed charging. Managed charging can be a tremendous resource for the grid but there are trade-offs to solutions at different levels of commercial readiness.

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