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DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

Green Car Congress

Accelerated Development and Deployment of LowCost Automotive Mg Sheet Components (Area of Interest 3). Advances for the Production of LowCost Electric Drive vehicle Motors (Area of Interest 5). University of Washington, Seattle. Description. Federal funding. United States Automotive Materials Partnership LLC.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The F6 DM uses ferrous batteries, with no lithium content, that BYD says are high-energy density and low cost. Felix and I might differ on that -- Felix and I were talking the other day -- but we dont expect the battery and the battery maintenance to be part of the ownership cost of your car.

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