Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2021

Awardees across 12 projects will focus on developing next-generation lithium batteries with improved lifespan, safety, and affordability; improving the performance and durability of electrolytes that carry ions within batteries; and increasing the power density of electric drive systems. General Motors. AOI 6: Low?cost

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Xcel Energy has launched a new pilot for customers of five major automakers to make it easier for consumers to make the switch to electric vehicles in Colorado and to charge their EVs at times when renewable energy production is high and demand on the energy grid is low. From 2022 through 2024, Xcel Energy will invest more than $3.1

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2017

These projects enable smaller, safer, lighter weight, and less expensive battery packs that ultimately will make electric vehicles more affordable. Using 3D printed, low tortuosity frameworks, develop solid state Li-ion batteries. General Motors LLC. ICME Low Cost Carbon Fiber (Area of Interest 2).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

Most of the projects will support the goals of EV Everywhere, an Energy Department program that aims to make PEVs as affordable and convenient as gasoline-powered vehicles by 2022. Accelerated Development and Deployment of Low‐Cost Automotive Mg Sheet Components (Area of Interest 3). General Motors. General Motors.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2018

The bumper component offers commercial value by providing reduction of mass in the front of the vehicle, affording an improved ride and handling benefit in addition to mass reduction. A Way to Low-Cost, Yet High-Performing Aluminum. A Model to Join Dissimilar Materials.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

The American automaker sold 20,233 EVs in Q1 2024, topping rival General Motors with 16,425 electric cars delivered. In February, Farley revealed the company had a “skunkworks” team developing a smaller, low-cost EV platform that will underpin multiple vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2017

General Motors and Honda are establishing the auto industry’s first manufacturing joint venture—Fuel Cell System Manufacturing, LLC, FCSM)—to mass-produce an advanced hydrogen fuel cell system that will be used in future products from each company. Earlier post.). and president of Honda North America, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding nearly $55 million for 24 projects to develop and deploy advanced vehicle technologies, supporting the Energy Department’s EV Everywhere Grand Challenge to make plug-in electric vehicles as affordable to own and operate as today’s gasoline-powered vehicles by 2022. General Motors.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2023

Here’s what they said: Emad Dlala, Lucid Motors, vice-president of powertrain Upstart Lucid Motors hasn’t built many cars, but it’s built a reputation with the record-setting, 830-kilometer driving range of the Air Grand Touring Performance sedan. One might think Lucid would call for every electric model to cover such vast distances.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

A so-called "structural battery pack" (also called "cell-to-pack" construction), touted as a Tesla innovation, is in fact already a staple of several EVs, especially in China—including General Motors' red-hot, roughly $5,000 Wuling Mini. It's basically a giant box without dividers," Munro says.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

contains no rare earths, in a prototype electric motor. Research, TECO Westinghouse Motor. High Performance, Low Cost Superconducting Wires and Coils. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. All generators contain coils of wire. If successful.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Ford, General Motors and FCA US are collaborating with national laboratories, universities and the casting industry to develop an affordable, 300 ˚C-capable high-strength cast aluminum alloy. The ORNL-led project is part of a new initiative from DOE’s Vehicle Technologies Office to develop such new high-performance alloys.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Low Cost, High Energy and Power Density, Nanotube-Enhanced Ultracapacitors. BIOMASS ENERGY.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

General Motors is working with communities such as San Francisco to develop a plan of action to establish the supporting technical and policy infrastructure required for broad commercialization of plug-in electric vehicles such as the upcoming Chevrolet Volt. GM described its approach at the Washington Auto Show.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The only upgrade is the Plaid version that features even faster acceleration from three motors, producing sub-two second 0-60 runs. The Model 3 its affordable ($35,000 as it was originally advertised, though most have sold for more), smaller model changed everything. Chevrolet Bolt/Bolt EUV – Waiting for more GM EVs.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

General Motors. A multi-partner team, led by PNNL as part of the Battery500 research consortium, will receive an award of up to $10 million per year for five years to drive progress on DOE’s goal of reducing the cost of vehicle battery technologies. Tesla Motors, Inc. Duke Energy. Edison Electric Institute. Georgia Power.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2009

The economic impact of a General Motors or Chrysler bankruptcy is being debated across the country. Other key actions for lenders to take include: Provide Affordable Financing: The interest rate on loans to finance consolidation efforts should be set at lower lending rates. Laura Marcero.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Electric vehicles are "definitely affordable and environmentally friendly technology, and we think theres a huge potential market in China for them," Li Shufu, Geelys chairman, said in an interview Monday. Great Wall Motor Co., Those prices are much lower than that of General Motors Corp.s in late 2010.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform. Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors. BYD also developed the motors and software for the system.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

BYDs plug-in, called the F3DM (for "dual mode"), goes farther on a single charge - 62 miles - than other electric vehicles and sells for about $22,000, less than the plug-in Prius and much-hyped Chevy Volt are expected to cost when they hit the market in late 2010. we could not afford to do anything like this."

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