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Panasonic strikes OK off list of potential battery plant sites

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Panasonic announced that Oklahoma is no longer on its list of potential battery plant sites. We are grateful for the conversations we had with officials from across the political spectrum to discuss the potential for Oklahoma to play a role in Panasonic Energy’s growing footprint across North America.

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Is there a list of EV conversion shops?

Electric Cars are for Girls

As exciting as a DIY electric conversion sounds, many people don't have the time, skills, and/or inclination to convert a vehicle themselves. On your main

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List of The Best 10 Alternative Fuels for Cars that Could Replace Gasoline

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Types of alternative fuels for cars Alternative fuels for cars that could have used are listed below. Here is a list of top 9 alternative energy sources for a vehicle. #1 Even though compressed air results no air pollution, its inefficiency in conversion and low energy density makes it less competitive.

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Everatti begins pre-orders of Land Rover Series IIA electric-conversion

Electrek

UK-based vehicle restoration specialist Everatti Automotive has shared its latest electric vehicle conversion , this time in the 1960s-era Land Rover Series IIA SUV. Everatti has begun pre-orders as this Land Rover model finds a second life as an electric vehicle, and joins a growing list of other electrified classics from the company.

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Researchers develop efficient single-atom Ni catalyst for conversion of CO2 to CO

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A competing reaction, called the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) or “water splitting,” takes precedence over the CO 2 conversion reaction. In addition to the unique energetic properties of single atoms, the O 2 conversation reaction was facilitated by the interaction of the nickel atoms with a surrounding sheet of graphene.

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ARPA-E to issue new funding opportunity for bio-conversion of methane to liquid fuels; encouraging formation of project teams now

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In mid-March, 2013, the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) intends to issue a new Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) (DE-FOA-0000881) for the Bio-Conversion of Methane-to-Liquids.

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Argonne team finds copper cluster catalyst effective for low-pressure conversion of CO2 to methanol with high activity

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Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have identified a new material to catalyze the conversion of CO 2 via hydrogenation to methanol (CH 3 OH): size-selected Cu 4 clusters—clusters of four copper atoms each, called tetramers—supported on Al 2 O 3 thin films. Image courtesy Larry Curtiss; click to view larger.)