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FedEx adds 1,900 new lightweight composite Reach vans to fleet; 35% fuel efficiency improvement

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The lower-weight body design—light-weight composite materials save 600 lbs (272 kg) of weight per vehicle—along with the engine, allows every Reach to significantly reduce fuel consumption and exhaust emissions compared to conventional walk-in vans. The Reach van, with its four-cylinder, 3.0-liter In 2008, FedEx Corp.

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Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

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In order to achieve the goals for energy efficiency, energy flexibility and grid stability, the opportunities arising from the digitization of energy networks must be consistently exploited. However, today’s production grids are powered by alternating current—which has to be converted.

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AMSC Power Electronics Support Nearly 10% of Global Wind-Generated Electricity

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With nations around the world seeking to derive a greater percentage of their energy needs from renewable energy sources, we believe we have only begun to scratch the surface of the renewable energy grid interconnection market’s potential. Full-scale conversion drivetrain. SuperGEAR drive train.

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DOE Announces $100M Available for ARPA-Es 3rd Funding Opportunity; Focus on Grid-Scale Energy Storage, Electrical Power Technology, and Building Energy Efficiency

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Ultimately, technologies developed through this program will be scalable to the megawatt and megawatt-hour levels of power and energy capacity. Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology (ADEPT).

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OSU team develops new aqueous lithium-iodine solar flow battery; 20% energy savings over Li-I batteries

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The new aqueous lithium−iodine (Li−I) solar flow battery (SFB) incorporates a built-in dye-sensitized TiO 2 photoelectrode in a Li−I redox flow battery via linkage of an I 3 − /I − based catholyte for the simultaneous conversion and storage of solar energy. Credit: ACS, Yu et al. Click to enlarge. —Yu et al. Click to enlarge.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

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↓ ↑ report 6 jzj 3:24PM (4/15/2009) Polo, First, there will indeed be need for such fast charging at home because the future of a renewable energy grid will depend upon V2G energy storage, and that will require fast in-out charging. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use or tags.