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DOE Awards $377 Million in Funding for 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers

Green Car Congress

With the initiation of the EFRCs in April 2008, the Department of Energy (DOE) budgeted approximately $100 million for multiple EFRC awards starting in FY 2009. Study complex material structures on the nanoscale to identify key features for their potential use as materials to convert solar energy and heat to electricity.

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The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets

Cars That Think

Mineral market analysis company Benchmark estimates that at least 74 lithium, 55 cobalt, 64 nickel and 97 graphite mines, as well as 54 new synthetic graphite factories will be needed by 2035 to meet the global demand for EV and renewable energy storage batteries. North Carolina has provided $1.2 billion to Rivian.

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Trump plans to gut EV policy: What it might mean for jobs, auto industry, made in America

Baua Electric

Today’s diversified multinational energy companies have invested deeply in solar panels, energy storage, and charging networks, with wells and refineries and combustion only part of the business. He made a pledge to “bring back coal,” and he has suggested that climate change itself is a hoax created by China to hurt U.S.