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Volvo Trucks, UMN partner with local fleets for extreme weather field testing of Volvo VNR Electric truck batteries

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Volvo Trucks North America is working with the University of Minnesota (UMN) to conduct extreme weather testing for its Class 8 VNR Electric model to analyze the impact of ambient temperature on a truck’s battery life.

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Who Will Free EV Motors from the Rare Earth Monopoly?

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Ayman El-Refaie, Marquette University Now a sleeper option, synchronous reluctance motors , is getting a surge of interest, thanks to materials-science breakthroughs at GE Aerospace. kW/kg because the prediction had been based on attributes of lab-scale or simulated parts rather than production ones.) kW per kilogram. (It

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UCLA researchers develop exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal nanocomposite

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Chen is now an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology. The other authors on the paper are Hongseok Choi, of Clemson University; Xiaolong Ma, of North Carolina State University; Sanjit Bhowmick of Hysitron, Inc.

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Geographers provide new insight into commuter megaregions of the US

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Geographers from Dartmouth College and the University of Sheffield have provided new insight into the economic geography of commuter megaregions in the US by using an empirical approach that combines visual interpretation with statistical analysis. The algorithm is able to make judgement calls that one cannot make with a map.

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New diamine-appended MOFs can capture CO2 for half or less of the energy cost of current materials

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Long has already shown that some diamine-appended MOFs can bind CO 2 at room temperature and CO 2 levels as low as 300 parts per million. The current atmospheric concentration of CO 2 is now 400 parts per million (ppm). The pressure at which CO 2 binds to the amines can be adjusted by changing the metal in the MOF.

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DOE to award more than $27M to 12 plastics recycling R&D projects

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As part of DOE’s Plastics Innovation Challenge, these projects will also help improve existing recycling processes that break plastics into chemical building blocks, which can then be used to make new products. Partners include Algenesis, BASF, Pepsi, Reef, and University of California – Davis.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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Zipcars can be found in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego, Zipcar users have a card that unlocks their local cars San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. Zipcar’s potential is enormous.

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