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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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Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. Double-Stator Switched Reluctance Motor (DSSRM) Technology General Atomics and the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) will develop a new type of electric motor with the. electrical battery is being charged. This will allow a.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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He envisioned “hundreds of thousands” of charging spots, as well as a number of stations where drained batteries could be exchanged for fresh ones. “Electric vehicles could be connected to the grid and could store energy at times when too much is produced ? Charge, drain, repeat is extremely inefficient. — DonO 5.

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