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EV Fun Run!

Electric Auto Association

The “Mother Road,” as John Steinbeck coined it in his classic 1939 novel, The Grapes of Wrath , winds from Chicago to Los Angeles, passing through Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

Green Car Congress

In the second group, an additional 16 awards for a total of $185 million will help fund utility-scale energy storage projects that will enhance the reliability and efficiency of the grid, while reducing the need for new electricity plants. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Tehachapi Wind Energy Storage Project.

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

Green Car Congress

Offshore Wind Turbine Digital Twin for the Prediction of Component Failures, $200,000. Alumina Energy, LLC (Los Angeles, California). Assessment Robot for Resilient Optimized Wind Energy ARROW(e), $1,000,000. Urban Electric Power (Pearl River, New York). Array Technologies (Albuquerque, New Mexico).

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The EV Transition Explained: Policy Roadblocks

Cars That Think

—Clean Air Task Force Take the SunZia transmission line project which was started in 2006 to send enough renewable power via transmission lines 520 miles across federal, state and private lands between New Mexico and central Arizona. Permitting issues also bedevil wind power projects.

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