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Exeter team develops low-cost photoelectrode for spontaneous water-splitting using sunlight

Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2018

The researchers believe this new type of photoelectrode is not only cheap to produce, but can also be recreated on a larger scale for mass and worldwide use. The nanostructured photoelectrode results in spontaneous hydrogen evolution from water without any external bias applied with a faradaic efficiency of 30% and excellent stability.

Water

Water Low Cost Hydrogen Solar

Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

I think the chemistry we have right now might be the best that’s out there for stationary storage and quite possibly cheap enough to make it in the marketplace, but we have ideas that could lead to huge improvements. So far, we’ve seen no sign of degradation after more than 100 cycles, but commercial applications require thousands of cycles.

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BNL Researchers develop low-cost, efficient, non-noble metal electrocatalyst to produce hydrogen from water

Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2012

A team of researchers led by Dr. James Muckerman at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have developed a new class of high-activity, low-cost, non-noble metal electrocatalyst that generates hydrogen gas from water. Click to enlarge.

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Bio-inspired molybdenum sulfide catalyst offers low-cost and efficient photo-electrochemical water splitting to produce hydrogen

Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2011

Progress has so far been limited in part by a lack of cheap catalysts that can speed up the generation of hydrogen and oxygen. “If we can find new ways of rationally designing catalysts, we can speed up the development of new catalytic materials enormously” —Jens Nørskov.

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Researchers use melamine to create effective, low-cost carbon capture; potential tailpipe application

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2022

Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine, researchers from UC Berkeley, Texas A&M and Stanford have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks. The low cost of porous melamine means that the material could be deployed widely.

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Initial Results of UK EV Driver Study Show Increased Confidence and Low Cost Recharging

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Collecting real-world analysis of electric vehicles is essential in understanding actual demands and requirements of low carbon vehicles for consumers. The low cost of ‘refuelling’ in relatively short periods of time reinforce this. —Brian Price, lecturer in Engineering Systems and Management at Aston.

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Scientists create cheap and safe electro-catalysts for anion-exchange fuel cells

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Scientists from the University of Surrey and their colleagues have produced non-metal electro-catalysts for fuel cells that could pave the way for production of low-cost, environmentally friendly energy generation.

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IPG to demo Flameless Ceramic Turbine for clean, off-grid power in EV charging

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

IPG’s project will demonstrate the role of Flameless Ceramic Turbine technology in bringing EV charging to high-use and remote locations through clean, cheap, grid-independent power generation. Low-cost ceramics enable temperatures beyond the limitations of metals to deliver fuel efficiencies of power plants in small-scale distributed power.

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Researchers use chemical looping process to produce hydrogen from hydrogen sulfide gas

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The process uses relatively little energy and a relatively cheap material—iron sulfide with a trace amount of molybdenum as an additive. Herein, we demonstrate a sulfur looping scheme in a one-reactor system using a low-cost and environmentally safe iron-based sulfur carrier.

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Penn State, FSU team develops low-cost, efficient layered heterostructure catalyst for water-splitting

Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2017

The researchers suggested that their strategy offers a cheap and low temperature synthesis alternative able to replace Pt in the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Thus, lowering the cost of HER catalysts is of paramount importance for clean, scalable and sustainable energy.

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Low Cost Water Hydrogen Energy

Cheap Sensors for Smarter Farmers

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

One of the benefits of using print electronics is being able to mass-produce at a low cost, says Gregory Whiting at the University of Colorado, Boulder, one of the principal investigators of the team working on the sensors. First up is a 3D-printed, biodegradable soil sensor that checks moisture and nitrogen levels.

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Ford's Developing A Cheap EV Platform To Fend Off Tesla And Chinese EVs

InsideEVs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A small "skunkworks" team within Ford has been working on a low-cost EV platform for two years, Ford CEO Jim Farley said on Tuesday.

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Is this low-cost Chinese electric surfboard too good to be true?

Electrek

MAY 13, 2023

Well, at least until today’s find: a cheap Chinese electric surfboard that has earned it the dubious honor of becoming this week’s Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week. more… The post Is this low-cost Chinese electric surfboard too good to be true? appeared first on Electrek.

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Low Cost Chinese Cheap Electric

Sandia team boosts hydrogen production activity by molybdenum disulfide four-fold; low-cost catalyst for solar-driven water splitting

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The idea was to understand the changes in the molecular structure of molybdenum disulfide, so that it can be a better catalyst for hydrogen production: closer to platinum in efficiency, but earth-abundant and cheap. Molly is dirt cheap and abundant. —Stan Chou. People want a non-platinum catalyst.

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Low Cost Hydrogen Water Production

CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Cyclonatix, Inc is developing an industrial-sized motor/controller to operate with either DC or AC power sources, for applications in electric vehicles, solar-powered pumps, HVAC&R, gas compressors, and other commercial and industrial machines which require high efficiency, variable speed/torque, and low cost.

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Wheel-E Podcast: Honda E-cub moped, RCA e-bikes, cheap electric boats & more

Electrek

JANUARY 14, 2023

This time that includes new electric bikes from the consumer electronics brand RCA, a new electric trike from Lectric eBikes, Honda revealed its E-Cub for the Chinese market, a high power hubless wheel electric motorcycle, low-cost electric boats with a Mercury electric outboard motor and lots more.

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Cheap Honda Mercury Electric Motorcycles

I just bought a super-cheap electric bike from China. It was a bad idea

Electrek

AUGUST 21, 2023

Say hello to the Mihogo Mini, an ultra-low-cost electric bike direct from China. more… The post I just bought a super-cheap electric bike from China. But not the ones with the price tags that make you go, “Honey, how can we afford not to?!” And that’s exactly the story of my latest weird little e-bike purchase.

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Material Derived From Carbonized Chicken Feathers Could Meet DOE Hydrogen Storage Targets

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2009

Scientists at the University of Delaware are developing a new low-cost material for hydrogen storage—carbonized chicken feathers (CCFF)—that they say could meet the DOE requirements for hydrogen storage and are competitive with carbon nanotubes and metal hydrates at a tiny fraction of their cost.

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Volvo Car Corporation developing flywheel kinetic energy recovery system; considering broad application

Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2011

SKF is also a partner in the Ricardo-led KinerStor project to demonstrate the viability of low-cost flywheel hybrid systems ( earlier post ). The flywheel technology is relatively cheap. Volvo Car Corporation (VCC) has received a grant of 6.57 million Swedish kronor (US$1.05

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LANL researchers discover how cobalt might replace precious metals as industrial catalyst

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Cobalt, like iron and other transition metals in the Periodic Table, is cheap and relatively abundant, but it has a propensity to undergo irreversible reactions rather than emerging unchanged from chemical reactions as is required of an effective catalyst.

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Rio Tinto and Comptech partner to deliver next generation of EV and 5G giga-casting aluminum alloys

Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2021

The process was invented in Sweden and further developed by Comptech to achieve a stable, reliable and cheap process for high-quality parts. The alloys offer high-strength, electrical and thermal conductivity properties, while Rheocasting allows fast, low-cost production of advanced lightweight designs.

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BNEF report finds hydrogen promising decarbonization pathway, but carbon prices and emissions policies required

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2020

When including the cost of storage and pipeline infrastructure, the delivered cost of renewable hydrogen in China, India and Western Europe could fall to around $2/kg ($15/MMBtu) in 2030 and $1/kg ($7.4/MMBtu) Note: Clean hydrogen refers to both renewable and low-carbon hydrogen (from fossil-fuels with CCS). MMBtu) in 2050.

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Efficient recovery of lithium from spent LiFePO4 batteries via air oxidation–water leaching at room temperature

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2022

The use of LFP batteries in EVs is increasing rapidly, especially in China, due to low-cost, safety, excellent thermal stability and superior cycling performance. As the most cheap and green oxidant, air may be suitable as the oxidant to selectively extract lithium from the LFP cathode material in the water leaching process.

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IDTechEx: Sales of electric motorcycles in Europe grew 50% y-o-y in 2020

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Besides the low cost of ownership, electric motorcycles improve the riding experience, taking away the noise, fumes, vibration, shifting, and clutching from the user experience, alongside the environmental benefits of low emissions. 2020 is an IDTechEx estimate based on Q1 - Q3 2020 data. Source: ACEM, IDTechEx.

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Study sees gradual, focused replacement of lead-acid SLI batteries by Li-ion batteries over next couple of years

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2019

This energy sector is primarily driven by the need for low-cost with reasonably long cycle-life energy storage technology, for which the lead-acid battery is well suited.

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Lead Acid Li-ion Batteries Battery

Startup commercializing thermo-acoustic Stirling technology for combined heat and power for homes

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Variables such as energy tax credits, availability of low-interest home-equity loans and electricity and natural gas rates all affect an economic decision, but it is nonetheless clear that a viable unit must be manufacturable at relatively low cost. A prospect to be explored is a thermo-acoustic design.

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RPI team develops method to use paper-making by-product in lithium-sulfur batteries

Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2018

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have now developed a method to use this cheap and abundant waste byproduct to build a components for lithium-sulfur batteries. Our research demonstrates the potential of using industrial paper-mill byproducts to design sustainable, low-cost electrode materials for lithium-sulfur batteries.

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ARPA-E Soliciting Second Round of Proposals; $100 Million for Advanced Energy Research Projects, with Focus on CO2-to-Liquid Fuels, Plug-in Batteries and Carbon Capture

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

In this topic, ARPA-E seeks to develop a new generation of ultra-high energy density, low-cost battery technologies for long electric range plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and electric vehicles (EVs). Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST).

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Carbon Plug-in Energy Fuel

Nanotech Solution To Hydrogen Fuel Puzzle From Brookhaven Lab?

Green Car Reports

MAY 15, 2012

A team of researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, has opened the door to a future of clean, cheap hydrogen fuel by ditching a popular platinum catalyst in favor of one based on two low cost alternatives, nickel and molybdenum.

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Hydrogen Fuel Cheap New York

PNNL team develops bio-inspired iron-based catalyst for hydrogen fuel cells

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Electricity is produced from the oxidation of hydrogen in low-temperature fuel cells, but the best catalyst is platinum, a precious metal of low abundance. A burgeoning effort by chemists studying many areas of catalysis has focused on ‘cheap metals for noble tasks’.

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Kyoto team develops new cathode material for high-energy-density rechargeable magnesium batteries

Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2014

Batteries using a combination of ion-exchanged MgFeSiO 4 and a magnesium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide–triglyme electrolyte system represent a prototype for a low-cost, high-energy-density rechargeable magnesium battery in which no toxic or explosive components are used, the researchers concluded. —Orikasa et al.

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BNEF ups forecast for global investment in stationary energy storage, sees majority of capacity likely to be grid-scale

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

BNEF’s Energy Storage Outlook 2019 predicts a further halving of lithium-ion battery costs per kilowatt-hour by 2030, as demand takes off in two different markets: stationary storage and electric vehicles. The report goes on to model the impact of this on a global electricity system increasingly penetrated by low-cost wind and solar.

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High capacity, long-life porous nano-silicon Li-ion anode material from beach sand

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JULY 9, 2014

Herein, we propose a facile and low cost alternative to production of nano-Si with excellent electrochemical performance using a highly abundant, non-toxic, and low cost Si precursor: sand. . … Recently, magnesiothermic reduc- tion has gained attention due its much lower operating temperatures (~650 ?C). Favors et al.

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A cheap Toyota EV? Not right now, the company says

Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2024

Toyota has no current plans to launch a cheap EV despite demand building. Toyota says no small, cheap EV is in the works Although many automakers, including VW, Stellantis, and Kia, have revealed plans to launch low-cost EVs under $30,000 (£25,000), Toyota says not so fast. The post A cheap Toyota EV?

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UCSC team develops high-performance nanostructured composite catalyst for water-splitting to produce hydrogen

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2018

A low-cost, nanostructured composite material developed by researchers at UC Santa Cruz has shown performance comparable to Pt/C as a catalyst for the electrochemical splitting of water to produce hydrogen. An efficient, low-cost catalyst is essential for realizing the promise of hydrogen as a clean, environmentally friendly fuel.

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KAUST team alters atomic composition of MoS2 to boost performance as water-splitting catalyst for H2 production

Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2017

Researchers at KAUST have developed and used a novel way of increasing the chemical reactivity of a two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide material to produce a cheap and effective catalyst for water splitting to produce hydrogen. This technique may also have potential benefits for other manufacturing industries.

Water

Water Hydrogen Taiwan Production

Twingo is GO! Cheap $33k Renault Twingo EV is back on with help from a mysterious Chinese player

EV Central

JUNE 4, 2024

Just days after Volkswagen said it would go it alone and produce its cheap €20,000 ($A32,500) EV without any help, Renault has announced that it has already found a new Chinese partner to help it create its low-cost Renault Twingo. The post Twingo is GO!

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Ford’s low-cost EV platform could spawn electric Fiesta and Focus models

Baua Electric

JULY 30, 2024

CEO Jim Farley emphasized Ford’s (not-so-secret) low-cost EV platform is progressing in Long Beach as former Tesla, Rivian, Lucid, and Apple execs aim to develop some of the world’s most efficient electric cars. As the American automaker struggles to stay afloat in Europe, low-cost EVs could be Ford’s savior.

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Say what?! Walmart has full-suspension mid-drive electric bikes now?

Electrek

JUNE 14, 2022

Walmart has long offered an interesting array of low-cost electric bicycles. But while Walmart is known for its super cheap e-bikes, the company has never offered higher-end e-bikes with nicer features like mid-drive motors. Some of the bikes have even dipped down into ultra-budget territory with prices below $400.

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Reduced graphene oxide separator improves performance of Li-sulfur battery

Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2015

It is promising to use rGO-based slurry to continuously produce large-scale, low-cost, and bi-functional rGO coated separator for high-performance Li-S batteries. —Lin et al.

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Brookhaven team develops molybdenum-soy catalyst that rivals performance of noble metals for hydrogen production

Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have developed a low-cost, stable, effective catalyst made from earth-abundant molybdenum and common soybeans (MoSoy). Source: BNL. Click to enlarge.

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Researchers from MIT and Sun Catalytix develop an artificial leaf for solar water splitting to produce hydrogen and oxygen

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

aligned with the low-cost systems engineering and. This is a major achievement, which is one more step toward developing cheap and robust technology to harvest solar energy as chemical fuel. ”. constructing a simple, stand-alone device composed of. silicon-based light absorbers and earth-abundant catalysts, the.

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MIT Water Solar Hydrogen

Renault and Powervault in EV battery “second-life” partnership trial

Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2017

Powervault units can also automatically charge using low-cost, off-peak energy from the grid. As well as reducing the cost of production of a Powervault, the use of second-life batteries will also optimize the life-cycle of the Renault batteries before they are recycled.

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Batteries Battery Energy Storage Re-Charge

STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab spin-off seeking to develop and commercialize a novel solid-state hydrogen storage technology; transportation applications

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2011

The material could allow hydrogen to be stored in a cheap and practical way for transport applications, the company says. Many are also difficult to handle in that they degrade rapidly in air.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Commercial Transportation Polymer

Exeter team develops low-cost photoelectrode for spontaneous water-splitting using sunlight

Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

BNL Researchers develop low-cost, efficient, non-noble metal electrocatalyst to produce hydrogen from water

Bio-inspired molybdenum sulfide catalyst offers low-cost and efficient photo-electrochemical water splitting to produce hydrogen

Researchers use melamine to create effective, low-cost carbon capture; potential tailpipe application

Initial Results of UK EV Driver Study Show Increased Confidence and Low Cost Recharging

Scientists create cheap and safe electro-catalysts for anion-exchange fuel cells

IPG to demo Flameless Ceramic Turbine for clean, off-grid power in EV charging

Researchers use chemical looping process to produce hydrogen from hydrogen sulfide gas

Penn State, FSU team develops low-cost, efficient layered heterostructure catalyst for water-splitting

Cheap Sensors for Smarter Farmers

Ford's Developing A Cheap EV Platform To Fend Off Tesla And Chinese EVs

Is this low-cost Chinese electric surfboard too good to be true?

Sandia team boosts hydrogen production activity by molybdenum disulfide four-fold; low-cost catalyst for solar-driven water splitting

CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

Wheel-E Podcast: Honda E-cub moped, RCA e-bikes, cheap electric boats & more

I just bought a super-cheap electric bike from China. It was a bad idea

Material Derived From Carbonized Chicken Feathers Could Meet DOE Hydrogen Storage Targets

Volvo Car Corporation developing flywheel kinetic energy recovery system; considering broad application

LANL researchers discover how cobalt might replace precious metals as industrial catalyst

Rio Tinto and Comptech partner to deliver next generation of EV and 5G giga-casting aluminum alloys

BNEF report finds hydrogen promising decarbonization pathway, but carbon prices and emissions policies required

Efficient recovery of lithium from spent LiFePO4 batteries via air oxidation–water leaching at room temperature

IDTechEx: Sales of electric motorcycles in Europe grew 50% y-o-y in 2020

Study sees gradual, focused replacement of lead-acid SLI batteries by Li-ion batteries over next couple of years

Startup commercializing thermo-acoustic Stirling technology for combined heat and power for homes

RPI team develops method to use paper-making by-product in lithium-sulfur batteries

ARPA-E Soliciting Second Round of Proposals; $100 Million for Advanced Energy Research Projects, with Focus on CO2-to-Liquid Fuels, Plug-in Batteries and Carbon Capture

Nanotech Solution To Hydrogen Fuel Puzzle From Brookhaven Lab?

PNNL team develops bio-inspired iron-based catalyst for hydrogen fuel cells

Kyoto team develops new cathode material for high-energy-density rechargeable magnesium batteries

BNEF ups forecast for global investment in stationary energy storage, sees majority of capacity likely to be grid-scale

High capacity, long-life porous nano-silicon Li-ion anode material from beach sand

A cheap Toyota EV? Not right now, the company says

UCSC team develops high-performance nanostructured composite catalyst for water-splitting to produce hydrogen

KAUST team alters atomic composition of MoS2 to boost performance as water-splitting catalyst for H2 production

Twingo is GO! Cheap $33k Renault Twingo EV is back on with help from a mysterious Chinese player

Ford’s low-cost EV platform could spawn electric Fiesta and Focus models

Say what?! Walmart has full-suspension mid-drive electric bikes now?

Reduced graphene oxide separator improves performance of Li-sulfur battery

Brookhaven team develops molybdenum-soy catalyst that rivals performance of noble metals for hydrogen production

Researchers from MIT and Sun Catalytix develop an artificial leaf for solar water splitting to produce hydrogen and oxygen

Renault and Powervault in EV battery “second-life” partnership trial

STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab spin-off seeking to develop and commercialize a novel solid-state hydrogen storage technology; transportation applications

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