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IEEE, American Center for Mobility to collaborate on technical standards for connected and autonomous vehicles

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The American Center for Mobility is a uniquely purpose-built premiere national facility for mobility and advanced automotive testing and product development focusing on testing, validation and self-certification of connected and automated vehicles and other mobility technologies at the 500-acre historic Willow Run site in Southeast Michigan.

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New UK study to explore feasibility for dynamic wireless charging for commercial transport

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This technology allows electric vehicles to charge their batteries or be powered directly, while being driven, and would allow vehicles with demanding duty cycles to switch from petrol or diesel to being electric. Once the dynamic system undergoes full evaluation at GRID-C, it will be tested at the American Center for Mobility in Michigan.

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New A123 Systems LLC emerges

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Included in the acquisition, which has received approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), are A123’s automotive, grid and commercial business assets, including technology, products, customer contracts and U.S. A123’s joint venture with Shanghai Automotive. Lead-Acid Replacement.

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AEP Signs on as Corporate Sponsor of Pickens’ Energy Plan

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American Electric Power has signed on as a corporate sponsor of The Pickens Plan, proposed by oil and gas industry veteran T. Boone Pickens. AEP’s headquarters are in Columbus, Ohio.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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FIVSIM – An Accurate And Efficient Code for the Industrial Simulation of Flow Induced Vibrations, $1,500,000. Praj Industries Ltd. High Efficiency Power-to-Gas in a Modular Hybrid Electrobioreactor, $1,000,000. Field Testing and Validation of Hybrid Optimization and Performance Platform (HOPP) , $500,000.

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ARPA-E announces $27M for transformational power electronics technologies

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On a large scale, high-power electronics are used to connect solar panels and wind turbines to the grid, to operate industrial equipment such as elevators and HV/AC systems, and to run electric and hybrid-electric vehicles. Michigan State University. PolarJFET Novel Vertical GaN Power Transistor.

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Pike Research says lack of technical standards could hinder utilities’ readiness for EVs; forecasts $5.1B in spending from 2010-2015 on EV IT systems

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While plug-in electric vehicles will not threaten the integrity of the power grid as a whole, they will have an immediate local impact on neighborhood distribution infrastructure. EVs are expected to be purchased in clusters around neighborhoods that have historically seen high adoption of hybrid vehicles, Pike notes in the report.

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