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Arizona State Students Develop a Solar-Powered Air Filtration System

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A drought in Mongolia has led to food shortages, prompting the nomads to migrate to the Ger district in the capital of Ulaanbaatar, one of the world’s most polluted cities. During the past few years, children living in the polluted district have lung functions that are 40 percent lower than those living in rural areas, according to UNICEF.

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The heavy-duty electric truck market could break out in 2024 – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Electrifying heavy-duty trucks is essential if we’re to fight climate change and air pollution, but the pace of the transition has been painfully slow—many, many pilots, but few truly large-scale orders. As Alan Adler writes in a recent FreightWaves article, 2023 was not the long-awaited Year of the Electric Truck.

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Researchers Aim to Decarbonize Chemical Industry by Electrifying It

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This sponsored article is brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. These emissions are approaching a tipping point, and the companies responsible for creating these necessary products are increasingly looking at options to help offset their pollution outputs. million in grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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Must Read 40+ Electric Vehicle Interview Questions & Answers

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The battery pack stores electrical energy and supplies power to the electric motor. 7 DC-DC Converter: A DC-DC converter converts high voltage DC supply from the battery to low voltage supply. The absence of engine noise enhances the driving experience and reduces noise pollution in urban areas.

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IEEE: Will CARB Take Part in Plug-in Car Revival?

Plugs and Cars

Academics awash in government and corporate grants analyse and research biofuels and hydrogen. The IEEE article does a decent job of wending through the ZEV morass. Carmakers are desirous of delaying the inevitable but problematic move to electric drive. The problem with electric is it is here now. Proven, ready to market.

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

Charged EVs

From the report: “The federal government and some states offer dedicated grant programs for BEVs and related infrastructure, but the funding currently available isn’t sufficient to support widescale market deployment. This article appeared in Issue 62: Oct-Dec 2022. The cost equation is trickier. Stay tuned. Subscribe here.

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NYC Goes EV

Revenge of the Electric Car

From the article: ‘The New York study anticipates that by 2015, electric vehicle prices should decline because of reduced battery costs, that there will be a sufficient supply of electric vehicles to purchase, and that consumers will take advantage of the existing federal tax credit of $7,500 for new electric cars. Or No Cars?