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Amazon begins deploying its Rivian electric delivery vehicles

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Amazon has begun deploying its custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian for package delivery, with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities.

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Study: no one knows which city has the highest concentration of PM2.5

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will require a harmonized network that integrates different types of monitoring equipment (regulatory networks, low-cost monitors, satellite remote sensing, and research-grade instrumentation) with atmospheric and statistical models. Chemical Engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St.

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DOE awarding $1.16B to 9 battery component manufacturing projects as part of $2.8B funding

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6k , Plasma Low-cost Ultra Sustainable Cathode Active Material (PLUS CAM), $50,000,000. The plant will be an expansion of its existing facility in St. Component Manufacturing (Cathode). Each production line will be capable of producing 15,000 tonnes per year of LFP powder. Production will start in 33 months.

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DOE awarding $1.16B to 9 battery component manufacturing projects as part of $2.8B funding

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6k , Plasma Low-cost Ultra Sustainable Cathode Active Material (PLUS CAM), $50,000,000. The plant will be an expansion of its existing facility in St. Component Manufacturing (Cathode). Each production line will be capable of producing 15,000 tonnes per year of LFP powder. Production will start in 33 months.

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ARPA-E awards $37M for IONICS projects; improving solid-state batteries and fuel cells

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $37 million in funding for 16 innovative new projects as part of a new ARPA-E program: Integration and Optimization of Novel Ion-Conducting Solids ( IONICS ). —ARPA-E Director Dr. Ellen D. 3,500,000.

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ARPA-E awards $43M to 19 energy storage projects to advance electric vehicle and grid technologies

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Washington University in St. Louis will develop a predictive. These awards are part of the larger Department-wide Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program. project integrates a unique, low-cost membrane with a new. electrolyte materials composed of low cost iron.