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

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Marrone Bio Innovations (Davis, California). Offshore Wind Turbine Digital Twin for the Prediction of Component Failures, $200,000. Continuous Stirred Tank Reactors for The Scale Up of High Energy Density Cobalt-Free Cathodes for Advanced Lithium ion Batteries, $1,200,000. Nu:Ionic (Tulsa, Oklahoma). IP Group, Inc.

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NREL and partners to investigate secondary uses for electric drive vehicle batteries

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The CCSE project team includes the UC Davis’s Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Research Center; the UC Berkeley, Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC); UC San Diego Strategic Energy Initiatives; San Diego Gas & Electric; and AeroVironment. The total budget for the NREL-CCSE second use battery project is approximately $1.3

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Choosing an Eco-friendly Vehicle: Hybrid vs. Electric Cars

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Electric cars store their energy in a lithium-ion battery, which powers an electric engine. Hybrid vehicles have two engines, the spark-plug ignited internal combustion engine, and an electric traction motor powered by a lithium-ion battery similar to the one in EVs, but with a smaller capacity. How Do Hybrid Cars Work?

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Bright’s Plug-In Car: Aerodynamics Are Key

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By reducing wind resistance and weight, the company’s engineers effectively are reducing the amount of work an electric engine will have to perform to get the car up to driving speeds, which in turn conserves battery power.&#. “It’s a revolutionary platform,&# he said. But it does have experience on its side.

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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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Easel Biotechnologies, UC Davis). Advanced Li-Ion Battery Manufacturing : Novel High Energy Density Lithium-Ion Cell Designs via Innovative Manufacturing Process Modules for Cathode and Integrated Separator. Finally, a device that combines features of an electrochemical cell and a microbial fermenter will be developed.

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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Plus more people are installing rooftop solar photovoltaic systems, and clean wind power is vastly expanding nationally (see study by eminent environmentalist Lester Brown cited at CalCars Kudos ). In some areas where wind and hydropower is wasted at night, the rate can be as low as 2-3 cents per kWh. Thats 20-25 cents a gallon.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

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The MiEV runs on a lithium-ion battery pack that can be charged in seven or so hours on a 240-volt line. Today we could be using lead-acid EVs, lead-carbon-acid EVs, or nickel metal hydride or lithium-ion hybrids. Now popular in Europe, Think Global meets all European and US federal motor vehicle safety requirements.