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DOE to Award Up to $27M in Phase III Small Business Awards; Algae Processing, Fuel Cells, Improved Materials for Motors, Synthetic Fuels Among Areas of Interest

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Additionally, few of current harvesting and dewatering technologies available today are amenable to scaling for larger production scenarios of 1,000 acre or larger algal farms. Improved Magnetic Materials for Motors. saline water). The trend for higher-temperature electric machines requires higher-temperature PMs.

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Neste Oil to launch the first diesel complying with Category 4 WWFC diesel specification; reduces fuel consumption by 5% and emissions

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The highest WWFC specification diesel category is designed for markets with very advanced requirements for emission control to enable sophisticated NO x and PM after-treatment technologies. Engines, fuels, and motor oils all need to perform together well throughout a vehicle’s service life.

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Ford and Baidu invest $150M in Velodyne LiDAR

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a global leader in LiDAR (Light, Detection and Ranging) technology, announced the completion of a combined $150 million investment from co-investors Ford Motor Company and China’s leading search engine company Baidu, Inc. Velodyne LiDAR, Inc., —Jing Wang, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Autonomous Driving Unit of Baidu.

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President Obama launches $500M Advanced Manufacturing Partnership; Ford involved as an initial partner

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Federal investments in new technologies, shared infrastructure, and design tools have been crucial to the birth and growth of major new industries. This is a highly valuable digital design tool usually unavailable to smaller firms. Report to the President: Ensuring American Leadership in Advanced Manufacturing (presentation).

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IEA technology and policy reports outline paths to halving fuel used for combustion-engined road transport in less than 40 years

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The report treats different motorized modes separately, with a focus on light-duty vehicles (LDVs), heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) and powered two-wheelers. Strategies to close this gap include better design of fuel economy test cycles, improved traffic flow and better road surface conditions. Europe, South Asia, South America, etc.).

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Dynamotive Produces Renewable Gasoline and Diesel from Biomass in Three-Stage Process: Pyrolysis, Hydroreforming, Hydrotreating

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Designated UBA, the reformed bio-oil product has a HHV of 39.5 Since UBA still contains ~10% oxygen it is not a pure hydrocarbon and needs further treatment to convert it to motor fuel grade products. Among the technologies commercially available are FCC (catalytic cracking) and hydrotreatment/hydrocracking. Resources.

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Yes, Automakers Stand To Benefit From Installing Public EV Charging Stations

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That’s how Tesla charged to a massive head start — simply by putting as much effort and resources into building its charging network as it did into making its cars. will need as many as 235,000 fast EV chargers to meet demand — up from about 47,000 chargers that are available today.