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Tesla & Chinese EV Makers Putting Lot of Weight on These Low-Cost EV Batteries

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Electric vehicles often differ based on different battery technologies. According to Yang Jie at Wall Street Journal, “A less-expensive battery technology championed by Tesla Inc.’s ” The batteries are lithium-iron-phosphate batteries — often referred to as LFP batteries. […].

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Gevo awarded patent covering low-cost separation technology to remove isobutanol from fermentation broth

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The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded Gevo Patent Nº 8,283,505, covering the separation technology in Gevo’s Integrated Fermentation Technology (GIFT). The technology also increases final isobutanol concentrations extracted from the fermentation broth, he added. —Brett Lund.

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International consortium working on new sensor technology to measure real-world, in-use vehicle emissions

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—Alexander Bergmann, head of the Institute of Electronic Sensor Systems at Graz University of Technology. Finally, sensor technology could be used to identify and pull out of traffic those vehicles in which engine performance and thus pollutant emissions have been increased with manipulated particle filters or chip tuning.

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Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

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AQDSH 2 refers to the reduced form of AQDS. In a paper in Nature , they suggest that the use of such redox-active organic molecules instead of redox-active metals represents a new and promising direction for realizing massive electrical energy storage at greatly reduced cost. Cell schematic. Huskinson et al. Click to enlarge.

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Murata and Michelin co-develop embeddable RFID module for tires

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This simple yet elegant technology delivers low-cost and easy tire traceability throughout its entire lifespan, enabling the management of inventory logistics, aftermarket maintenance, and recycling operations. As the technology is also available, from now on, to any other tire manufacturer, this shall foster market adoption.

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ARPA-E to award $27M for advanced nuclear reactor systems operational technology: GEMINA

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GEMINA’s goal is to reduce fixed operations and maintenance (O&M) costs from ~13 $/MWh in the current fleet to ~2 $/MWh in the advanced fleet. These projects will work to develop digital twin technology to reduce O&M costs in the next generation of nuclear power plants.

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Innoviz shipping Automotive Perception Platform, InnovizAPP, to key OEMs globally for evaluation

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Innoviz Technologies, Ltd., The InnovizAPP hardware provides an automotive-grade reference design based on low-cost automotive-grade components. a provider of high-performance, solid-state LiDAR sensors and perception software, has released its Automotive Perception Platform - InnovizAPP for the automotive industry.

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