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GKN to supply 500 electric flywheel hybrid drive systems to Go-Ahead Group for buses

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UK transport operator Go-Ahead Group has ordered 500 electric flywheel Gyrodrive systems from GKN Hybrid Power for use in buses. Key benefits of low mass, compact packaging, electric only coupling to vehicle drive, and low cost point make the Mk4 eFES system a turn-key retro-fit solution. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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UK Research Consortium Awarded £5.7M Grant to Develop New Lightweight Materials for Cars and Aircraft

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million) grant to help develop new super-light materials solutions for building more fuel-efficient cars and aircraft. The LATEST2 (Light Alloys Towards Environmentally Sustainable Transport 2 nd Generation) Project is being funded by a program grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

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Virginia Tech team develops process for high-yield production of hydrogen from xylose under mild conditions

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The findings of their study, published in the journal Angewandte Chemie, International Edition , suggest that cell-free biosystems could produce hydrogen from biomass xylose at low cost. Support for the current research comes from the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. earlier post ). earlier post ).

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Stanford faculty awarded $2.2M for 9 energy research projects; high-performance batteries, promoting sustainable vehicles, wireless power transfer for moving vehicles

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Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy (PIE), TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy and Precourt Energy Efficiency Center (PEEC) have awarded 9 faculty seed grants totaling $2.2 This project explores the use of specially designed nanostructured polymers to make high-energy, low-cost, flexible and stretchable batteries.

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UK TSB and BIS investing 10M in 16 low-carbon vehicle projects

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million) in grants to 16 collaborative research and development projects that focus on achieving significant cuts in CO 2 emissions for vehicle-centric technologies in low carbon vehicles. Technologies supported include ultra lightweight engine designs, advanced battery management systems and the next generation of electric motors.

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Modified enzyme can increase second-generation ethanol production

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A group of researchers at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), working in partnership with colleagues at the Brazilian Biorenewables National Laboratory (LNBR) in Campinas, São Paulo State, Brazil, have discovered that Trichoderma harzianum , a fungus found in the Amazon, produces an enzyme with the potential to play a key role in enzyme cocktails.

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BASF licenses CAM-7 Li-ion cathode materials from CAMX Power LLC

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BASF and CAMX Power LLC announced that BASF has been granted a license under the intellectual property of CAMX Power LLC (CAMX) relating to the CAMX suite of CAM-7 cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries. Provides low cell-level cost (on a $/kWh basis). Earlier post.) Thermal stability.

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