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Ford unveils F-150 Lightning electric pickup; starting at $39,974; arriving in 2022

Green Car Congress

Ford unveiled the F-150 Lightning battery-electric pickup. F-150 Lightning offers a standard-range battery targeting 230 miles of EPA-estimated range and an extended-range battery targeting 300 miles of EPA-estimated range. 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Platinum, Lariat, XLT. America’s No.

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Ford expects inner combustion engine quantity, earnings to develop thru 2025

Baua Electric

The ones enlargement plans are pushed by way of the corporate’s center of attention on successful car sections and high-margin, low cost derivatives. As an example, he stated, the freshened F-150 full-size pickup debuting this 12 months has 2,400 fewer portions than the stream type.

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Ford, Jose Cuervo team up to make car parts with bioplastic reinforced with blue agave fibers

Green Car Congress

Ford most recently introduced REPREVE in F-150. EcoLon post-consumer nylon carpeting is used as cylinder head covers in Ford Escape, Fusion, Mustang and F-150. Rice hulls are used to reinforce plastic in Ford F-150 electrical harness. Recycled post-consumer tires are used in seals and gaskets.

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Ford first automaker to use captured CO2 to develop foam and plastic for vehicles

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Novomer is commercializing a proprietary catalyst system that transforms waste CO 2 into high performance, low-cost polymers for a variety of applications, including foam and plastic that are easily recyclable. Low Finished Polymer Cost. Among these companies is Novomer. Tunable Molecular Structure.

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STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab spin-off seeking to develop and commercialize a novel solid-state hydrogen storage technology; transportation applications

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Ammonia borane in its normal state releases 12 wt% of hydrogen at temperatures between 110 °C and 150 °C, but with very slow kinetics. The hydride beads would then pumped to a hot cell where waste heat from the engine exhaust is used to drive the hydrogen into a small buffer volume. Zeynep Kurban, Arthur Lovell, Stephen M.

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New $30M ARPA-E program to develop new solar conversion and storage technologies; targeting higher solar penetration in mix

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This level of solar penetration is enabled only through a combination of demand-side management, trading of surplus power at low cost to neighboring jurisdictions, and dispatch of expensive natural gas peaking or load-following plants. Fraction, f th =X th /X tot , of delivered exergy as heat. 150 – 600 °C. Value (units).

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Is Elon Musk Back In “Production Hell” With Tesla’s 4680 Battery?

Cars That Think

Each jelly-roll cell packs in more active battery material, and less wasted space in metal casing. That chemistry, once dismissed for its puny energy density, is suddenly prized for low cost, long life and reassuring safety; especially for entry-priced models. Yet this "bigger can" brings big benefits.

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