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Tesla secures battery supply for EV and energy storage products

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During an invite-only Goldman Sachs conference in San Francisco on Monday, Tesla Head of Investor Relations Martin Viecha shared some of the company’s plans for the next five years. He also provided some key insights about the company’s battery supply, both for its electric vehicle business and its energy division.

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Gevo signs definitive supply agreement with HCS Holding for commercial supply of renewable isooctane

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has entered into a definitive supply agreement with HCS Holding GmbH (HCS) to supply renewable isooctane ( earlier post ) under a five-year offtake agreement. The Supply Agreement has two phases: In the first phase, HCS will purchase isooctane produced at Gevo’s demonstration hydrocarbon plant located in Silsbee, Texas.

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DOE awarding $22 million for algal fuel and biomass feedstock supply chain projects

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US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced more than $22 million in new investments to help develop cost-competitive algae fuels and streamline the biomass feedstock supply chain for advanced biofuels. Moniz was speaking at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Biomass 2013 conference. Nearly $16.5

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Researchers develop large-scale, economical method to extract hydrogen from oil sands and oil fields

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The process can extract hydrogen from existing oil sands reservoirs, with huge existing supplies found in Canada and Venezuela. The researchers are presenting this work at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Barcelona this week. This means it potentially costs a fraction of gasoline for equivalent output.

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Maxwell Technologies introduces ultracapacitor-based backup power module for Uninterruptible Power Supply Systems

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is introducing a 56-volt ultracapacitor module designed specifically to address the short-term ride-through and bridge power requirements of uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems for mission-critical installations such as data centers, hospitals, factories and telecommunication facilities. Maxwell Technologies, Inc.

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HT-PEM fuel cell company Advent Technologies, Hyundai enter technology assessment, sales & development agreement

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Supplying MEAs throughout the development/commercialization cycle for testing, evaluation, and optimization under conditions set by Hyundai. MEAs are the most important components of a fuel cell as they greatly define the performance, lifetime, weight, and cost of the end system. Advent MEAs operate at a high temperature (80 ?C

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Draper awarded patent on electrostatic motors; family under development

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Even with a resurgence in interest over the last few decades, electrostatic motors suffer from various problems, such as high weight, low maximum rotation rate, very large volumes of dielectric fluid and power supplies requiring very high voltages. 12 th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems.

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