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ClearFlame Engine Technologies , a startup developing net-zero engine technology ( earlier post ), has secured $17 million in Series A financing, which will enable commercialization of the company’s innovative engine technology for the long-haul trucking, agriculture and power generation sectors.
million in new financing. The Volvo Cars Tech Fund and Volta Energy Technologies join existing investors Anzu Partners and the University of Minnesota. As part of ARPA-E’s REACT program, the University of Minnesota (UMN) developed an early stage prototype of an iron-nitride permanent magnet material. Background. 2019.165962.
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an Ann Arbor-based developer of next-generation lithium-ion batteries ( earlier post ), has completed a $7-million Series B round of financing. Sakti3 was founded in 2007 as a spin-out of the University of Michigan and has been supported to date by Khosla Ventures and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. Sakti3, Inc.,
A $175,000 grant will be used for the site selection and analysis process for this facility. Following the site selection and facility design process, the Alliance will request a formal grant from the Commonwealth to construct a demonstration plant and produce its cleaner fuel on a larger scale. Earlier post.).
The financing was co-led by The Engine and by The GOOSE Society of Texas. Licensed from Rice University, the “antenna-reactor” plasmonic photocatalyst has been published in leading academic journals such as Science , Nature , and PNAS. million in Series A funding.
million in additional financing from several investors, including the Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas and Illinois Corn Growers Associations. ClearFlame Engine Technologies , a growing startup dedicated to the development of clean engine technology ( earlier post ), secured $2.5
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Additionally, through its stimulus programs and local industrial policies, the Chinese government is providing a range of grants, low-interest loans and related financial and tax incentives. GSR Ventures has offices in Beijing and Silicon Valley.
million for emerging technologies projects as part of a summer-long roll-out of $120 million in clean diesel grants. Most clean diesel grants involve widely used strategies such as retrofits or replacements. University of Houston for $1 million for NO x reducing technologies installed on school buses.
a startup founded by former Stanford University researchers developing next-generation battery technology for potential aerospace and industrial applications. In September 2017, CalSEED awarded Cuberg $150,000 in Phase I grant funding. In December 2017, NSF SBIR awarded Cuberg $225,000 in Phase I grant funding.
Conducted by Georgia Tech, the project is financed by a $50,000 Ford College Community Challenge Grant, one of five given annually for a student-led project that matches university resources with an urgent community need related to sustainability. Atlanta Public Schools (APS) donated the bus for the project.
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million grant to support research efforts to develop enhanced manufacturing processes, testing and utilizing of guayule natural rubber as a strategic source of raw material in tires, and evaluating the remaining biomass of the guayule plant as a source of biofuel for the transportation industry. Resources.
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billion), mainly through individual grants from the European Research Council (€1.75 million) pilot call will select a total of five ERA Chairs, to be hosted by universities or other eligible research institutions in less developed regions in five different EU countries. billion (US$1.5 billion (US$3.3 billion), and Marie Sk?odowska-Curie
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million grant from the DOE, has developed a solution. Smartville currently has a pilot project up and running at the University of California San Diego. How to assemble this motley mélange of used battery packs into a smoothly-functioning stationary storage system? Smartville , which recently won a $5.9-million
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