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Microchip to invest $880M to expand its SiC and Si capacity in Colorado

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One significant phase of the expansion is to develop and upgrade its 50-acre, 580,000-square-foot Colorado Springs campus for increased SiC manufacturing for use in automotive/E-Mobility, grid infrastructure, green energy, and aerospace and defense applications.

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NREL researchers point toward building energy efficiency instead of long-term storage

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Incorporating energy efficiency measures can reduce the amount of storage needed to power the nation’s buildings entirely with renewable energy, according to analysis conducted by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

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Texas plans for massive $408m EV charging infrastructure expansion

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“The density, distribution, and power of the EV network outlined in this plan is targeted to support 1 million electric vehicles when built out,” the report states. “DC Fast charging stations will be 50 miles apart on the Electric Alternative Fuel Corridors and usually 70 miles apart anywhere else in the state. .”

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TeraWatt has designs on offering juice EV vans want

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You wish to have to be spaced out plethora the place if anyone in point of fact needs to journey from Lengthy Seaside to El Paso, they may be able to do this with the era to be had. In case you are out in the course of the Untouched Mexican wilderness, are you able to get plethora energy for a charging station or is {that a} slog?

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NSF awards $55.5M to support 3 new Engineering Research Centers; one focused on power electronics

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The two other new ERCs are: Off-grid drinking water. The modular treatment systems, which will need less energy and fewer chemicals, will safely enlist the selective properties of reusable engineered nanomaterials to provide clean water at any location or scale. Nature-inspired soil engineering.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

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Zach Henkin Current Profession: Director of EV/EV Integration Research for the Center of Sustainable Energy How will you add value to the EAA Board? I successfully doubled EV sales in the Pacific Northwest through a US Department of Energy project I was the principal investigator for. in Business Administration.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

Zach Henkin Current Profession: Director of EV/EV Integration Research for the Center of Sustainable Energy How will you add value to the EAA Board? I successfully doubled EV sales in the Pacific Northwest through a US Department of Energy project I was the principal investigator for. in Business Administration.