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GM to invest $233M more in building Ecotec small-displacement gasoline engines

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General Motors will invest $185 million to make small-displacement gasoline engines at its Spring Hill, Tennessee manufacturing complex. Spring Hill is among six manufacturing locations around the globe that will produce the new engine. turbocharged direct injection 4-cylinder engine; the Ecotec 2.4L An additional $48.4-million

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Startup licenses ORNL technology for converting organic waste to hydrogen

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Founded in 2017, Electro-Active Technologies is working to move industries and communities towards closed-loop operations that save money and improve sustainability. He is now a research professor at the University of Tennessee, while also working with the startup.

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GM may have found its solution to its Ultium bottlenecks

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Kelty was with Tesla for 11 and a half years , starting in March 2006 and leaving in August 2017 for a Senior VP position at Plenty. In October, GM delayed the opening of its Ultium Cell production plant in Tennessee, but this was due to construction timeline issues.

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Toyota bumping US investments up to nearly $13B over 5 years; focus on advancing electrification

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Toyota announced it will exceed its 2017 pledge to invest $10 billion in the US over five years with a new commitment to reach nearly $13 billion over the same period. manufacturing plant; expanding engine capacity at its Huntsville, Ala. manufacturing plant; expanding engine capacity at its Huntsville, Ala.

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Latest generation diesels power 36% of US commercial trucks

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in 2015, according to analysis by the Diesel Technology Forum of operation data from 2017 of vehicles (GVW 3-8) provided by IHS Markit. Indiana, Tennessee and the District of Columbia have the highest percentage of new-generation Class 8 diesel trucks (IN 66%; TN 60%; DC 48%). increase in savings, despite higher average diesel prices.

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Daimler putting ~€1B into Stuttgart-Untertürkheim to make it the center of competence for efficient engines, hybrid powertrains and fuel cell system production

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billion) in the Mercedes-Benz plant in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim and is transforming it into a center of competence for highly efficient engines, hybrid powertrains and the production of fuel cell systems. With the S 500 and C 350, a total of ten new Mercedes-Benz plug-in hybrid models will be on the market by 2017. This includes.

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Cooperation between Daimler and Renault-Nissan Alliance deepening in 2016

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This means smart is the first brand to offer its entire portfolio with both a combustion engine and also battery-electric drive. Nissan and Daimler broke ground on the US$1-billion Aguascalientes, Mexico, plant in 2015, which will produce next-generation premium compact vehicles for Infiniti as of 2017 and for Mercedes-Benz starting in 2018.

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