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GM expands EV first responder training efforts in US and Canada

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For example, many people believe water is dangerous around an EV battery, when in fact a large volume of water is the recommended method to suppress a lithium-ion battery fire. First and second responders can go to gmEVFirstResponderTraining.com to learn more about this hands-on training opportunity.

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US DOD awards MP Materials $35M heavy rare earth processing contract

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In addition to its mining and processing operation at Mountain Pass, MP Materials is developing a rare earth metal, alloy and magnet manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas. MP Materials’ operations provide certainty of US provenance and sustainability.

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GM and Glencore enter multi-year cobalt supply agreement

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The company will then expand into magnet manufacturing around 2025 at its new production facility in Fort Worth, Texas. The ore is then mixed with water to form a slurry for processing in the HPAL circuit. Alloy flakes with MP Materials, which will establish the first North American processing site for alloy flakes.

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GM and MP Materials enter long-term supply agreement to scale rare earth magnet sourcing and production in US

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Rare earth materials sourced from Mountain Pass will be transformed into metal, NdFeB alloy and magnets at a new production facility MP Materials today announced it will build in Fort Worth, Texas, delivering an end-to-end US supply chain.

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IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

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Until recently, the residents of Melamchi, Nepal, cooked meals and heated water for bathing over a wood-burning stove. The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth.

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31 Things to Do for the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

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What’s better than an indoor water park, like the one at the Great Wolf Lodge in Sandusky, Ohio? Delta Air Lines has been advertising path-of-totality flights from Austin (sold out) and Dallas-Fort Worth to Detroit. Entertain the kids If you’re taking your children to see the eclipse, they will need distractions.

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Linear Labs closes $4.5M seed round to fund commercialization of new electric motor technology

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Brad and Fred Hunstable invented the HET while working to design a device capable of pumping clean water and providing power for small communities in underdeveloped regions of the world. Numerous discoveries morphed into a new electric motor. —Fred Hunstable, CTO of Linear Labs.