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ICL breaks ground on $400M LFP battery materials manufacturing plant in St. Louis

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ICL, a global specialty minerals company, celebrated the groundbreaking of its battery materials manufacturing plant in St. Louis, which is expected to be the first large-scale lithium iron phosphate (LFP) facility in the US. ICL’s investment in the plant was augmented by a $197-million grant from the US Department of Energy.

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Volvo Trucks Customer QCD orders 30 more VNR Electric trucks for Southern California fleet

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Last April, QCD ordered its first batch of 14 leased Volvo VNR Electric trucks with funding support from a grant awarded to Volvo Financial Services from the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee’s (MSRC) Inland Port Program. Located in the St.

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Ocean View School District selects The Mobility House for smart charging for electric bus fleet; SoCal Edison and CEC

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ChargePilot also provides a proactive alerting system that mitigates charging issues as well as collects charger usage data in compliance with the CEC grant requirement. Ocean View School District is the latest project in The Mobility House’s list of optimized electric bus fleets, including projects for Metro Transit in the St.

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NSF awards UIC $1.44M to discover new 2D materials for better batteries

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million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to discover new 2D materials that can be used to manufacture better and cheaper batteries. During the four year grant cycle, Salehi-Khojin and Klie will be assisted by researchers at Washington University of St. The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $1.44-million

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FTA awarding $130M in Low-No grants for zero-emission and low-emission transit buses and facilities

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The Bi-State Development Agency (Metro Transit) serving the St. Louis region will receive funds to purchase new electric buses to replace aging diesel buses and related charging infrastructure. The City of Rochester will receive funds to purchase new electric buses for service expansion and related charging infrastructure.

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EPA awards $8M in FY2014 clean diesel grants in 21 states, Puerto Rico

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The grants will fund projects such as retrofitting older school buses to improve air quality for children riding to school, upgrading marine propulsion and agriculture engines, and replacing long haul truck engines. Louis Clean Cities is replacing six school busses. New Jersey and New York. New York.

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Modeling study suggests 1.8M excess deaths attributable to urban air pollution in 2019

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The first study was funded by grants from NASA and the Wellcome Trust. It was conducted by researchers from George Washington University, the University of British Columbia, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Washington, Dalhousie University, and the University of California.

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