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UPS to invest $100M more in compressed natural gas, CNG vehicles and related infrastructure

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Taken together, all of our alternative fuel vehicles represent 6% of the more than 100,000 UPS global fleet, and have driven a 10% annual reduction in use of conventional fuel. —Mark Wallace, UPS senior vice president global engineering and sustainability. Agility and Quantum Fuel Systems will provide the CNG storage systems.

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Roskill: graphite prices could push higher on tightening markets for batteries & electrodes

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Roskill forecasts that global sales of EVs and hybrid vehicles will increase rapidly in the coming years and could account for 69% of all motor vehicle sales by 2027. Just 6% of China’s steel is currently produced in EAF, far below the global average of 25%. Rising flake graphite prices spur new development outside of China.

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LA-based SMLC to lead new DOE Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute; ~$800M for 5 new hub competitions

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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Louisiana State U.; Next Flex, the Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Innovation Institute (San Jose, CA). LanzaTech; Materia; SEVA; TowerJazz; Small: Able Industrial Products Inc.; VRCO; and many more small and medium-sized manufacturers. Missouri U.

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DOE awarding $33M for carbon-neutral hybrid electric aviation

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FLyCLEEN will leverage the robustness and efficiency of metal-supported solid oxide fuel cells that are integrated with the combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine-generator, yielding a hybrid system operating on synfuel with performance that maximizes the power density and energy efficiency of each component. University of Maryland.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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High Efficiency Power-to-Gas in a Modular Hybrid Electrobioreactor, $1,000,000. Field Testing and Validation of Hybrid Optimization and Performance Platform (HOPP) , $500,000. GE Global Research (Niskayuna, New York). Utility Global (Houston, Texas). Prometheus Innovations (Lafayette, Louisiana). Lorama Group Inc.

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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a first-of-its-kind waiver for the purpose of testing hydrous E10, E20, E30 & E85 ethanol blends in non-flex-fuel vehicles and flex-fuel vehicles in the State of Louisiana. Rapid expansion of the ethanol industry is creating global supply/demand issues. In February, 2009, the US EPA granted Renergie, Inc. Earlier GCC post.]

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DOE Awards $377 Million in Funding for 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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Center for Interface Science: Hybrid Solar-Electric Materials (CIS:HSEM). $15. Enhance the conversion of solar energy to electricity using hybrid inorganic-organic materials. Simultaneously explore the light absorbing and emitting properties of hybrid inorganic-organic materials for solar energy conversion and solidstate lighting.

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