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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. superconducting wire that can be used in future advanced wind turbine generators. has traditionally been too expensive to use in wind generators.

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2016 Optima midsize sedan gains new 1.6L engine

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Kia Motors America (KMA) introduced the re-designed Optima midsize sedan at the New York International Auto Show. A larger full floor under cover helps reduce wind noise and aid fuel efficiency. The new Optima will be built at Kia’s plant in West Point, Georgia. Sales begin in the fourth quarter of 2015.

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Kia EV9 and Volvo EX30: Are they 2024’s most important EVs?

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The first several months’ worth of EV9s will be built in South Korea, but US production will start sometime during 2024 in West Point, Georgia. Kia EV9 Blocky but wind-cheating While it’s more aerodynamic than it looks, the EV9’s flat sides and blocky, square-cut lines fall into the heart of the current SUV market.

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Kia EV9 and Volvo EX30: Are they 2024’s most important EVs? – Charged EVs

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The first several months’ worth of EV9s will be built in South Korea, but US production will start sometime during 2024 in West Point, Georgia. Kia EV9 Blocky but wind-cheating While it’s more aerodynamic than it looks, the EV9’s flat sides and blocky, square-cut lines fall into the heart of the current SUV market.

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Review: 2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz tags nostalgia, re-ups minivans

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This past week I drove the ID.Buzz not in San Francisco but on the rural back roads and through the suburban communities of north Georgia. inches without the mirrors, and on the narrow Georgia backroads, with no shoulder, I appreciated its predictable behavior and easy lane placement. The ID.Buzz is quite wide, at 78.1 in AWD form).

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

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In July, Trump reportedly asked oil and gas CEOs for a $1 billion campaign donation in exchange for scrapping EV policies, halting wind energy expansion, and derailing other clean-energy policies that the industry opposes. EV plants Tens of thousands more U.S. There’s been no about-face to a clean-energy economy. By 2027 U.S.