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Warburg Pincus to invest up to $355M in First Green; focus on early-stage technologies in the carbon value chain; renewable fuels and chemicals, and green-black tech

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Warburg Pincus LLC, a leading global private equity firm, will invest up to $355 million in First Green, a newly formed enterprise focused on commercializing early-stage advanced technologies in the carbon value chain. commercialize them. and expertise to make these emerging technologies a commercial reality. Cameron was.

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Volvo Trucks, UMN partner with local fleets for extreme weather field testing of Volvo VNR Electric truck batteries

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Volvo Trucks North America is working with the University of Minnesota (UMN) to conduct extreme weather testing for its Class 8 VNR Electric model to analyze the impact of ambient temperature on a truck’s battery life.

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INRIX and Parkmobile bring end-to-end parking solution to the connected car

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Atlanta-based Parkmobile is the largest provider of mobile payments for on- and off-street parking and mobility-related services for municipalities, universities, commercial operators and transit facilities in the US. Los Angeles, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Fort Worth, Indianapolis and Houston.

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New yeast engineered by BESC, Mascoma could accelerate production of cellulosic ethanol

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The results were presented at the 31 st International Fuel Ethanol Workshop this week in Minneapolis. The ability to partner the combined expertise at Mascoma and BESC in engineering microbes to release and convert sugars from lignocellulosic biomass has greatly accelerated the translation of basic research outcomes to a commercial product.

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IEEE Honors Pioneering Engineers

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MADNI University of California, Los Angeles “For pioneering contributions to the development and commercialization of innovative sensing and systems technologies, and for distinguished research leadership.” MISHRA University of California, Santa Barbara “For contributions to the development of gallium nitride-based electronics.”

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Who Will Free EV Motors from the Rare Earth Monopoly?

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Ayman El-Refaie, Marquette University Now a sleeper option, synchronous reluctance motors , is getting a surge of interest, thanks to materials-science breakthroughs at GE Aerospace. The peak efficiency of the GE motor was 94 percent, on a par with the best motors used today in commercial EVs. It’s not only about GE.

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What is Tesla’s Mystery Magnet?

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Alexander Gabay, a researcher at the University of Delaware, states flatly: “I am skeptical that any non-rare-earth permanent magnet could be used in a synchronous traction motor in the near future.” It was a stunning disclosure, which left most experts in permanent magnetism wary and perplexed. No one fully understands this,” he reports.

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