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DOE awards Magna a grant to develop and ‘auto qualify’ advanced motor; 1/2 the cost, 8x power density

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Magna has been awarded a grant by the US Department of Energy to develop and ‘auto-qualify’ advanced electric motor technologies for next-generation vehicle propulsion systems. The project objective is to develop an electric motor that is half the cost and eight times the power density, while delivering 125 kW of peak power.

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Porsche, Siemens Energy and partners advance climate-neutral eFuels development; Haru Oni pilot in Chile

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Electrolyzers will use wind power to produce green hydrogen. Other partners in the project are the Chilean power company AME, Chile’s national oil company ENAP, and Italian energy company Enel. The company’s flexible PEM (PEM = Proton Exchange Membrane) electrolysis is ideally suited for using volatile wind power.

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DOE EERE awarding $43.6M for Phase II SBIR projects

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million in Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II Release 2 grants to projects that demonstrate commercial feasibility for innovations during the second phase of their research. The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is awarding $43.6 Awards include: Accustrata Inc.

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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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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. Useable stored energy is 1.2MJ, with peak power of 120kW. The GKN Hybrid Power Mk4 eFES is an electrically driven flywheel energy storage system. million (US$13-million) grant as part of a £15.6-million

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Sandy solution for renewable energy storage; Thermal Energy Storage System

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Australia-based Latent Heat Storage has developed a low cost thermal energy storage system based on the latent heat properties of silicon derived from sand. The Australian Government grant, through its Entrepreneur’s Program, has been matched by Latent Heat Storage shareholders to generate $800,000 of total project funding.

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US DOE Selects 43 Projects for $92M in ARPA-E Funding; 3 on Automotive Power Electronics

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The awards in this tranche focus on power electronics, grid-scale energy storage, and building efficiency; of the 43, three are categorized specifically for the automotive market—power electronics projects led by HRL Laboratories, LLC; Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc.; and Case Western Reserve University.

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