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Stockton school district partners with Mobility House for electric school bus charging; savings of $500K over 5 years

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Stockton Unified School District collaborated with the Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE), Schneider Electric, Sage Energy Consulting and The Mobility House to develop a comprehensive roadmap for achieving net-zero emissions.

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EV myths busted: Are electric vehicles actually good for the environment?

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EV MYTH ONE: Manufacturing EVs is just as bad for the environment as ICEVs. It makes sense that during their usable life, electric vehicles are better for the environment than their ICEV counterparts, as they aren’t powered by fossil fuels. Vehicle manufacturing is an energy-intensive process.

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EV myths busted: Are electric vehicles actually good for the environment?

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EV MYTH ONE: Manufacturing EVs is just as bad for the environment as ICEVs. It makes sense that electric vehicles are better for the environment than their ICEV counterparts, as they aren’t powered by fossil fuels. Vehicle manufacturing is an energy-intensive process. Manufacturing an Electric Vehicle.

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

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million: ALD Technical Solutions is developing light-weight, easy-to-install, long-lasting, and cost-effective structural composite reinforcement system which will be installed and cured-in-place around existing Aluminum Conductor Steel Reinforced transmission lines to increase power capacity and power efficiency, and also decrease sag.

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ARPA-E awards $175M to 68 novel clean energy OPEN 2021 projects

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Existing power modules contain flat ceramic substrates that serve as both the electrically insulating component and thermal conductor that transfer the large heat outputs of these devices. Additive Manufacturing of Amorphous Metal Soft Magnetic Composites - $1,900,000. Cornell University. Stanford University. Precision Combustion.

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Siemens and partners developing new software architecture for electric vehicles

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The project RACE (Robust and Reliant Automotive Computing Environment for Future eCars) is scheduled to run for three years and is being funded by Germany's Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. This will reduce the current complexity of the ICT architecture and at the same time increase its power.

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BMW Group and Toyota agree to mid-to-long-term research collaboration in next-generation Li-ion batteries; BMW to supply 1.6L and 2.0L diesel engines to Toyota Europe

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BMW Group and Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) concerning a mid-to-long-term collaboration on next-generation environment-friendly technologies. The engines will be installed in certain Toyota-produced vehicles planned for sale in the European market. liter and 2.0-liter

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