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NGen Canada awarding $76M to 15 zero-emission vehicle projects

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Lead: Cnem Corporation; Partners: Talon Metals Services Inc., Palcan Energy Corporation. Cnem Corporation and partners Talon Metals Services Inc., and Palcan Energy Corporation will develop a new recycling process to process EV battery black mass using an environmentally friendly approach. Lead: Cummins Inc.;

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DOE announces $26.6M SBIR/STTR FY15 Phase 1 Release 2 awards; fuel cells, batteries, power electronics and efficient combustion engines

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Mainstream Engineering Corporation. This quality control device will help to drive down the costs of fuel cells by reducing waste and improving the process efficiency of roll-to-roll manufacturing of polymer electrolyte membranes. US Hybrid Corporation. American Lithium Energy Corporation. 149,871.44. 149,871.44.

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Georgia Tech study suggests unlinking EVs from CAFE and coordinating with power sector for low-cost benefits

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They considered biomass, wind, solar, and municipal waste resources within the Eastern Interconnection eligible to meet RESs. Based on the current Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) regulations (linkage), the reduction in gasoline demand for the 10%, 20% and 100% EV scenarios in 2030 is 2.9%, 4.4%, and 44.9% Click to enlarge.

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Do These 10 Things for Better Product Development

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For more than two decades I have been an independent consultant for the high-tech and medical-devices industries, for established high-profile clients as well as fledgling startups. Is it bloated, full of boilerplate and waste—the stuff you do solely because that was the way you always did it? Does it still make sense?

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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Of the lead recipients, 24% are small businesses, 57% are educational institutions, 11% are national labs, and 8% are large corporations. The team anticipates at least a twofold productivity improvement over current levels and a cost that can be competitive with gasoline. Sion Power Corporation. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

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

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Five of the 28 innovations will help protect the grid from wildfires/PSPSs, four of these five will provide climate and weather risk prediction to electric infrastructure and services, and one is a hard tech innovation to reinforce transmission lines.

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DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

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will demonstrate its low-cost ICE-31 solvent with enhanced stability technology on a flue gas slipstream at Los Medanos Energy Center, a commercially dispatched natural gas combined-cycle power plant in Pittsburg, CA. DOE Funding: $13,000,000; Non-DOE Funding: $3,272,127; Total: $16,272,127. ION Clean Energy Inc. Susteon Inc.

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