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Driving electric in an oil capital

Electric Auto Association

Houston chapter leads toward clean energy in Texas. I remember one guy who was irate just because he had to drive around us as he left a box store.” Texas understands how to set up energy markets, Douglass said. “We We now produce more wind energy than any other state by a large margin.”. Showing a home-brew EV.

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Enerpulse explains mechanism by which pulsed energy ignition plugs enhance fuel economy

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Unlike conventional spark plugs that only ionize fuel in the spark gap, n-PAC’s high-energy electrical discharge, which includes ionic wind and photon energy, projects well into the cylinder, ionizing a significantly larger amount of the total fuel charge. —Wes Helgeson, senior research engineer.

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Flash Drive: 2023 Toyota Sequoia

Clean Fleet Report

headquarters in Plano, Texas, the first week of June to be among the first to drive the all-new 2023 Sequoia. The Sequoia Hybrid has a regenerative braking system that converts kinetic energy into electric energy, and stores it in the 1.87 Power to tow. Clean Fleet Report was invited to Toyota’s U.S. kilowatt-hour battery.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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VIA Metropolitan Transit, Texas: $5,000,000. Renewable Wind Energy: MBTA will design and construct wind energy generation turbines in eastern Massachusetts (from among Kingston, Newburyport, Bridgewater). The facility is used by the LRTA to store, fuel, maintain, and repair transportation vehicles (buses, vans, tow trucks etc.)

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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Today’s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis—either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. Engineering E.

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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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streamline the process by which green plants convert carbon. production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. Texas Agrilife Research. Terpenoid Pathways Texas A&M University will address a major inefficiency of. is one of the most energy dense forms of stored energy in. The team will.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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NovaCentrix (Austin, Texas). Energy Storing Efficient HVAC, $595,558. Offshore Wind Turbine Digital Twin for the Prediction of Component Failures, $200,000. High-Power Oak Ridge Converter (ORC) for Extreme Fast Charging (XFC) Applications, $750,000. Utility Global (Houston, Texas). Treverity (Coppell, Texas).