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Polymer Coated EV Batteries Offers Increased Range And Battery Life

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The Berkeley Lab has created a conductive polymer coating known as HOS-PFM that could be used for coating lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles (EVs). To draw potential purchasers, EVs and their internal parts should continue to be reasonably priced. This could increase the range and life of EV batteries.

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Twelve and Alaska Airlines to collaborate with Microsoft to advance sustainable aviation fuel derived from recaptured CO2 and renewable energy

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Twelve has developed an efficient polymer-electrolyte membrane (PEM) CO 2 electrolyzer that uses proprietary CO 2 -reducing catalysts to split CO 2 with just water and renewable electricity as inputs, syngas (CO and hydrogen) as the output, and pure oxygen as the only byproduct.

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Cadillac CELESTIQ to be built at GM’s Global Technical Center

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The investment will be used to purchase and install related equipment to hand-build the CELESTIQ and campus renovation work has already begun. This will include both structural and cosmetic parts, and both polymer and metal pieces. Cadillac CELESTIQ show car. 3D Printer at GM Additive Industrialization Center.

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GM expands medical projects and charitable deliveries to hospitals

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For full production, GM is collaborating with suppliers, including Summit Polymers of Kalamazoo. Summit Polymers donated a P20 steel injection mold that will enable GM to increase production from roughly 4,000 to 25,000 units per week. GM is purchasing a second injection mold to help increase production up to 50,000 units per week.

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ARPA-E launches $45M funding for advanced batteries for electric vehicles; EVs4ALL

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Developing more efficient batteries that can withstand much colder temperatures is key to ensuring batteries can power vehicles in the coldest parts of the country as well as motivating broader adoption amongst drivers who live in those regions. Innovative cell/battery designs and materials that can achieve the key metrics [e.g.,

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ACMA awards 59 companies for excellence in production, innovation, localisation, exports – ET Auto

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The jury panel for the 58th ACMA Excellence Awards, besides Vinod Aggarwal, included, Sunil Kakkar, SIAM Aatmnirbhar Bharat Sourcing Group; and Senior Executive Officer – Supply Chain & Enterprise Strategy at Maruti Suzuki India, Sanjeev Jain, Director Purchase at Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India; Ganesh Mani S.,

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Additional $47M to 7 ARPA-E SCALEUP projects; $27M to 3 advanced battery projects for EVs and electric aviation

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding an additional $47 million in funding for seven projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Seeding Critical Advances for Leading Energy technologies with Untapped Potential (SCALEUP) program.

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