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BP invests $5M in mobile electric vehicle charging company FreeWire; intro at some retail sites this year

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BP Ventures’ portfolio is primarily focused on emerging technologies in oil and gas exploration and production and downstream conversion processes. In addition, it has a renewed strategic focus on five key areas: bio & low carbon products, carbon management, power & storage, advanced mobility and digital transformation.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Electronville: High-Amperage Energy Storage Device-Energy Storage for the Neighborhood.

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

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Oil is the alternative. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it? But there is a caveat to the accuracy of the aforementioned statement, and this would require answering the question: How is the electricity produced to power the car? Alternative is no longer an alternative. — Bada Bing 9.

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