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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Electrofuels approaches will use organisms able to extract energy from other sources, such as solar-derived electricity or hydrogen or earth-abundant metal ions. Medical University of South Carolina. of South Carolina).

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Washington University in Saint Louis team disseminating code to identify optimal charging protocols for new advanced Li-ion battery materials

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Venkat Subramanian are offering the open download of application code which, in conjunction with their paper published in the RSC journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics , can help the developers of new materials or electrodes for Li-ion batteries to determine how optimally to charge their batteries based on the properties of the new materials.

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BMW brand’s first production PHEV: the BMW X5 xDrive40e

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kWh, 96-cell high-voltage Li-ion battery pack, the BMW X5 xDrive40e achieves a combined fuel consumption of 3.4 – 3.3 In this way, the stored electrical energy can be selectively deployed exactly when required. liters per 100 kilometers (69 - 71 mpg US mpg imp) and a combined electricity consumption of 15.4 – 15.3 Production.

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