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NAMII selects awardees of initial call for additive manufacturing applied research

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Sparse-Build Rapid Tooling by Fused Depositing Modeling (FDM) for Composite Manufacturing and Hydroforming”, Missouri University of Science and Technology. The NAMII Project Call, which was released on November 27, 2012, at the Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC) in Orlando, Fla., Byrd Institute’s Composite Center of Excellence.

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Electrify Your Fleet Faster With Incentives and Rebates

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In Missouri, for instance, Ameren Missouri offers incentives to nonresidential customers that install Level 2 or DC fast charging stations. Companies with electric fleets in the state would also avoid the cost of annual or biannual emissions inspections since Missouri exempts electric vehicles from this requirement.

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MIT study concludes V2G-enabled electric commercial trucks could offer lower total operating cost than conventional diesel fleet

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Staples currently has 53 all-electric trucks, manufactured by Missouri-based Smith Electric Vehicles, in use in several American cities. The paper will be published in a volume of the conference’s proceedings. Trucks with internal-combustion engines averaged 10.14 miles per gallon, compared to 11.56 kilowatt-hours per mile.

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USDA and DOE award $12.2M to 10 research projects to accelerate bioenergy crop production and spur economic impact

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The 10 projects are located in California, Colorado, Illinois, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Virginia: Association Mapping of Cell Wall Synthesis Regulatory Genes and Cell Wall Quality in Switchgrass. Braun, University of Missouri, Columbia. Bartley, University of Oklahoma, Norman.

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Ohio State University Takes Top Spot at 2009 EcoCAR Competition with EREV Design

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Two of the teams, University of Waterloo and Missouri University of Science and Technology, designed a Fuel Cell Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle which uses an onboard hydrogen fuel cell to either propel the vehicle or recharge a battery pack. Tags: Conferences and other events Hybrids Plug-ins.

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Dow and HPL Sign Li-ion Technology Transfer Agreement; Dow Kokam JV Acquires Assets of Kokam America

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At the Advanced Automotive Batteries Conference in Long Beach, California earlier this year, HPL presented the current status of its work with nanostructured lithium manganese phosphate (LiMnPO 4 , LMPO) materials and cells for automotive applications. Separately, Dow Kokam LLC acquired substantially all of the assets of Kokam America Inc.,

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UT Austin researcher awarded $15M for switchgrass traits studies

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hallii has been driven by its close relationship to the bioenergy crop switchgrass, Juenger said in a presentation this January at the conference “Plant and Animal Genome XXIII”. Interest in developing genomic resources for P. Much like upland and lowland ecotypes of switchgrass, there are two major ecotypes of P. hallii var.

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