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DOE selects 33 clean energy businesses for nearly $6.7M in support under Small Business Vouchers pilot

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This work will contribute to low-cost, metal bipolar-plate manufacturing processes and quality control system development. Skysun will perform detailed systems modeling on a novel working prototype of a ganged heliostat with the potential to drastically reduce both component and installation costs. Geothermal Power.

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Porsche Whistleblower: “60% of all delivered Taycan have battery issues that caused replacements, damages and fires”

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These are figures from Porsche’s internal statistics, which the company updates on an ongoing basis to keep track of safety issues. Porsche’s 800V high-voltage architecture is more vulnerable in this regard than a low-voltage architecture such as Tesla’s 400V, or what other manufacturers use.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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Appendix D: Vehicle Driving Statistics. has constructed prototype PHEV trucks for electric utility companies which can deliver energy to power an entire neighborhood during maintenance or repair when there is a power outage [ 4 ]. Today, the utilization factor (UF) of the grid, its energy-carrying capacity, is very low.

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DOE awards $54M to 13 projects for transformational manufacturing technologies and materials; top two awards go to carbon fiber materials and electrodes for next-gen batteries

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The top two awards, one of $9 million to a project led by Dow Chemical, and one of $8.999 million to a project led by PolyPlus, will fund projects tackling, respectively, the manufacturing of low-cost carbon fibers and the manufacturing of electrodes for ultra-high-energy-density lithium-sulfur, lithium-seawater and lithium-air batteries.

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Tesla Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript: April 23, 2024

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We’ve installed and commissioned, meaning they’re actually working, 35,100 H100 computers or GPUs—GPU’s the wrong word; they need a new word. We are also getting hyper focus on CapEx efficiency and utilizing our installed capacity in a more efficient manner. I always feel like a wince when I say GPU because it’s not GPUs.

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