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AUGUST 10, 2021

Now, University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering researchers have developed a cheaper, safer, and simpler technology that will allow a “stubborn” group of metals and metal oxides to be made into thin films. —William Nunn, first author. Truttmann, and postdoctoral researcher Anil Rajapitamahuni.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

For its EV delivery fleet, IKEA selected Electrify Commercial, Electrify America’s business unit designed to help deliver turnkey electric vehicle charging solutions, to provide more than 225 individual chargers across the sites. The first locations are expected to open in late 2022 and be completed by the end of 2023.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Gevo plans to install an alcohol-to-hydrocarbon process pilot unit at its facility located in Luverne, Minnesota.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Summit Carbon Solutions has partnered with a select group of leading biorefiners located in Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, and North Dakota to execute the first phase of the project, which will put them on the path of ultimately delivering a net-zero-carbon fuel. Green Plains Inc.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The program will provide nearly $5 billion over five years to help states create a network of EV charging stations along designated Alternative Fuel Corridors, particularly along the Interstate Highway System. These corridors will be the backbone of the new national EV charging network. 14,743,125. 10,280,470. 10,859,512. Massachusetts.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 16, 2023

As many are receiving invites to configure their Cybertruck orders, Tesla has also started allowing some who haven’t received invites to design their vehicles. By selecting “Manage” on their Cybertruck reservations, some users have been led to the design screen, subsequently being able to place orders for the vehicle.

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MARCH 6, 2018

million to research ultra-low emissions, high-efficiency heavy-duty natural gas engines with optimized combustion chamber designs. University of Minnesota will receive $1.1 University of Minnesota will receive $1.4 Recipients of the three new cost-shared projects are: Colorado State University will receive $1.2

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JULY 2, 2017

Researchers from the University of Minnesota, with colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, have developed a new high-yield process—a hybrid of fermentation followed by thermochemical catalysis—to produce renewable isoprene from biomass. Abdelrahman, Dae Sung Park, Katherine P. Vinter, Charles S.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Stephens originally filed the lawsuit on behalf of Tesla drivers with the company’s insurance in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Virginia. Tesla Insurance data has driven changes to vehicle design: Elon Musk What are your thoughts?

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APRIL 21, 2011

The Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) will recruit 500 people from Wright and Hennepin counties to take part in research to test technology that could someday be used to collect a mileage-based user fee (MBUF) in lieu of a gasoline tax. —Cory Johnson, project manager.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As part of the development agreement: Chart will provide: Liquid hydrogen expertise from liquefaction plant to storage, fueling & onboard tanks; Extensive truck LNG tank experience; An existing liquid hydrogen onboard vehicle tank prototype design; Fuel-to-vehicle connection / interface experience; and. LH 2 test lab in Minnesota.

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JANUARY 6, 2021

Lightning eMotors, a leading provider of commercial electric vehicles for fleets, announced a $45-million order for its zero-emission powertrain systems from Faribault, Minnesota-based motorcoach supplier ABC Companies. The first zero-emission motorcoach was delivered in December. —Tim Reeser, CEO of Lightning eMotors.

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MAY 31, 2019

An association of transit and transportation agencies has formed the Automated Bus Consortium (Consortium), a collaboration designed to investigate the feasibility of implementing pilot automated bus projects across the United States.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

In the latest such effort, engineers at University of Minnesota have come up with way to encode these problems onto a chip built using standard CMOS circuits. Doing this in software or even in digital hardware designed to speed Ising algorithms has had some success, but it’s been limited. Department of Defense.

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JUNE 18, 2012

The three additional facilities are Little Sioux Corn Processors of Marcus, Iowa; Granite Falls Energy LLC of Granite Falls, Minnesota; and Siouxland Ethanol of Jackson, Nebraska. The four new ethanol plants to join the EAG, along with the previously announced EAG members, are all Fagen/ICM-designed facilities constructed by Fagen, Inc.

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JULY 20, 2012

Eaton will collaborate with the University of Minnesota on thermodynamic analysis and modeling to enable the efficient transfer of heat in the compression process. The refueling system will use liquid to act as a piston to compress natural gas. earlier post.) and Milwaukee and the Advanced Hydraulics group in Eden Prairie, Minn.

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JANUARY 16, 2021

EPA is soliciting applications nationwide for projects that significantly reduce diesel emissions and exposure, especially from fleets operating at goods movements facilities in areas designated as having poor air quality.

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JULY 17, 2020

Announced by Secretary Brouillette in January 2020, the Energy Storage Grand Challenge is designed to create and sustain US global leadership in energy storage technology, utilization, and exports. Rational Electrolyte Design for Li-ion Batteries with Micro-Sized Silicon Anodes. Regents of University of Minnesota. Achates Power.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

As outlined in the MoU, Sweetwater plans to build, own and operate a facility adjacent to Gevo’s existing plant in Luverne, Minnesota to produce high-value, plant-based products from cellulose and lignin while supplying Gevo with up to 30,000 tons of biomass-derived cellulosic sugars annually, with opportunities for expansion.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Further, the researchers separated the country into five climate zones, ranging from the hot and humid (Tampa, Florida) to the very cold (International Falls, Minnesota). Data from the US Energy Information Administration informed the scientists about the existing building stock characteristics and energy load used by the buildings.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

States currently covered by the new tool are Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, Wisconsin. The consumer tool, called EVolution: Choices for a Smarter Purchase , is designed to help car buyers make informed decisions when purchasing a new vehicle.

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APRIL 8, 2015

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Minnesota and Argonne National Laboratory will explore ways to produce renewable plastic precursors and other substances from biomass with a recently announced $3.3-million million grant from the United States Department of Energy. Part of a $13.4-million

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Baua Electric

MARCH 20, 2024

The Bay Area startup Amber, founded early last year, worked with EV technicians, experts, and driver communities to design vehicle service contracts for EVs. Amber designs, underwrites, and provides AmberCare plans, as well as reviews and reimburses claims in-house. Amber also announced the close of its $3.18

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

based in Winona, Minnesota, to develop new innovative bio-based Long Fiber Thermoplastic (LFT) composite materials for the automotive and other performance-driven markets. Central to this partnership is DSM’s EcoPaXX polyamide 410, 70% derived from renewable resources and PlastiComp’s expertise in LFT composites design and manufacturing.

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

will adapt their combustor design to ensure 99.5% proposes a hybrid flare design coupled with advanced controls to ensure 99.5% The burner will be incorporated into a new flare system design that is robust to cross winds and low load conditions which can lead to poor methane destruction efficiency. Selection amount: $3,300,000).

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MAY 2, 2012

The Early Adopters Group (EAG) was announced in December 2011 with founding member Highwater Ethanol, an ethanol producer based in Lamberton, Minnesota. Both ethanol plants are ICM/Fagen-designed facilities constructed by Fagen, Inc., Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

Understanding the network of genes involved in photosynthesis and drought tolerance will provide targets for plant breeders and genetic engineers to re-design sorghum specifically as a high value bioenergy feedstock to be grown on marginal soils and thus not compete with food crops. —principal investigator Thomas Brutnell, Ph.D.,

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

EPA is soliciting applications nationwide for projects that significantly reduce diesel emissions and exposure, especially from fleets operating at goods movements facilities in areas designated as having poor air quality.

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MAY 16, 2012

SensoTop is designed to optimize bus transmission gear-shifting to reduce fuel consumption. The technology is currently being tested in a number of North American cities, including Portland, Oregon and Minneapolis, Minnesota. While ideal for hilly or mountainous routes, SensoTop achieved fuel savings even on relatively flat routes.

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MAY 18, 2023

Minnesota’s Runge just lately paid a seek advice from to Jay Leno’s Storage with its original inauguration, the Dodge Viper-based Veleno. Mercedes-Benz has a redesigned E-Elegance on its method to showrooms then this past, and a prototype for the AMG E 53 variant has been noticed in its wagon frame taste.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The Minnesota Road Fee Test (MRFT) is the most extensive road user fee demonstration currently underway in the United States. Staff be showing how the Battelle system works and also make several presentations to describe the system design and provide early findings from the ongoing demonstration project. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 27, 2021

University of Minnesota. Whereas joint projects have TRI pursuing a specific direction and reaching technical milestones along the way, the YFR projects are specifically designed to support promising tenure stream faculty members, enabling them to explore broadly, inquire deeply, and address higher-risk, higher-payoff ideas.

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APRIL 2, 2024

BASF, a German chemical manufacturer, has a somewhat similar corporate history and logo design to fellow thick-Helvetica enthusiast 3M. Tartan track is sort of the track-and-field version of Astroturf , originally designed for horse tracks. Before World War II, one company did attempt to manufacture a tape recorder in the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Designed for linehaul applications, Endurant weighs up to 105 pounds less than competitive automated manual transmissions (AMTs). Endurant was designed, engineered and created from a clean sheet to be an automated transmission, not simply an update to an AMT, allowing us to optimize the transmission’s weight, dimensions and features.

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APRIL 15, 2010

A study by researchers at the University of Minnesota has found that hillslope processes influence biomass productivity. Scientists at the University of Minnesota led by Gregg Johnson investigated differences in woody and herbaceous crop productivity and biomass yield as a function of landscape position at the field scale.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

Xcel Energy will use this pilot to evaluate and learn about smart charging technology and program design before launching a full program where many more EV customers will be eligible to participate. Customers will receive up to $300 for enrolling and participating in the Charging Perks Pilot.

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AUGUST 9, 2016

Sixteen compressed natural gas vehicles, designed with the latest modifications and technological advances, will replace UBCR’s entire truck fleet.

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