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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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Project partners are Oahu Transit Services, Gillig, Hawaiian Electric Company and the Center for Transportation and the Environment. These vehicles will be the first electric transit buses deployed in Iowa. The goal is to integrate battery electric buses on specific high profile routes in the St Louis downtown and metropolitan area.

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ARPA-E awards $37M for IONICS projects; improving solid-state batteries and fuel cells

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Iowa State University. Iowa State University will develop a new process to create glassy solid electrolytes (GSEs) that allow for long lifecycle batteries, an important goal for the energy storage community. Washington University in St. The Washington University in St. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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