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DOE selects 9 universities for about $2.7M in advanced coal technologies research awards

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Indiana University will research a manufacturing process to produce a novel pyrochlore oxide-based double-layer coating that will have improved high-temperature corrosion resistance. Brown University will study the feasibility of two-layer air plasma-sprayed TBCs that will improve their durability, manufacturability and affordability.

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

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The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to help catalyze the agency’s research, development, demonstration, and deployment efforts into affordable, market-ready energy solutions, by strengthening partnerships between DOE’s National Labs and American entrepreneurs. Sentient Science (West Lafayette, Indiana).

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. At that point, we expect the aftermarket companies prices to have come down sufficiently so that their conversions will be attractive to owners of hundreds of thousands of hybrids already on the road. So far, most start as hybrids.

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Toyota was the most searched auto brand in 2023, but Tesla still dominates EV queries

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Studying the most searched auto and EV brands online While EVs continue to dominate the global mobility conversation, there are still plenty of hurdles to overcome before we can truly reach mass adoption. Still, gas and hybrid specialist Toyota remained the most searched auto brand, not by any specific state.

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The EV Transition Explained: Policy Roadblocks

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Affordability is expected to be just one highly contentious issue: Who, exactly, is going to pay for grid upgrades? When there is conversation, it is frequently combative , with local, state and federal officials fighting among themselves over who has the final say on what is going to be done, where and when.

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Profile: Farmers Ethanol: Focusing on Sustainable Corn Ethanol Production and a Triple Bottom Line

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The cattle will get part of their daily food ration from wet distillers grain (WDG) which is a by product of the ethanol fermentation. He also highlighted innovative companies that are focusing as much on potential co-products from the grains they process as they are on the starch to ethanol conversion. The ethanol market.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Partnering with Alcoa, Duke Energy, Google.org, Johnson Controls Indiana startup plans to unveil vehicle May 2009 at EVS-24 in Norway; mass production in 2012. Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.)

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