Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2013

million partnership with McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, with funding support from the Canadian government, to develop next-generation, energy-efficient, high-performance electrified powertrains and powertrain components. Chrysler Group LLC has entered a 5-year, $18.2-million Chrysler Group will invest $9.25 Valued at more than $2.4

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2019

LeMond and Deakin University are teamed to commercialize this innovative technology which enables reductions of 75% and 70% in capex and energy consumption per kilo of output respectively. This is a significant milestone for our company. To date, parent LeMond Companies LLC has raised approximately US$18.6

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2021

A new study focused on the auto industry finds that tightening emissions standards not only fails to curtail on-road emissions, but actually increases the likelihood of non-compliance by automakers. This phenomenon isn’t limited to the auto industry. You have to hit the score to make it. —Kejia Hu.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Infineon was the semiconductor arm of the German company Siemens. Its primary clients come from the auto industry, which Diess is also intimately familiar with, making him a good candidate for chairman. Diess was part of Infineon’s supervisory board from 2015 to 2020. So the ex-VW head has inside knowledge about Infineon. .

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2019

Purdue University researchers are developing pre-chamber technology for automobiles to replace conventional spark plugs and enable more reliable ultra-lean combustion. The auto industry is feeling the pressure to optimize these engines because of the competition from electric vehicles. —Li Qiao.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The University of Michigan is entering two separate agreements with Chinese institutions targeting automated and connected vehicles. million research agreement with the Chongqing Sokon Industry Group establishes the University of Michigan-Sokon Research Center in the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering. Second, a $2.5-million

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Ford Motor Company and Progress Energy are working together to help prepare the Research Triangle area of North Carolina for the operation of electric vehicles. This will include installing about 600 stations across the company’s territory in the Carolinas and Florida.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

TriboForm Engineering , a spin-out from the University of Twente in The Netherlands, introduced its TriboForm software at Triboforum 2016 , a triennial industry conference. Director and founder Jan Harmen Wiebenga started TriboForm in 2013 with his collaborator Johan Hol during their doctoral research at the University of Twente.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2014

ALMMII is a public-private partnership led by Ohio-based manufacturing technology nonprofit EWI, the University of Michigan and Ohio State University. The last tenant of the 107,000-square-foot property was Mexican Industries, which made plastic moldings for the auto industry until filing for bankruptcy in 2001.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2016

The two will partner to develop an embedded, end-to-end parking solution for the auto industry. Atlanta-based Parkmobile is the largest provider of mobile payments for on- and off-street parking and mobility-related services for municipalities, universities, commercial operators and transit facilities in the US.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Audi will be the first company to receive a newly established autonomous driving permit issued by California. Audi, ERL and Stanford University engineers collaborated on the development of the Autonomous Audi TTS Pikes Peak car, which successfully completed the challenging 12.42-mile

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2021

In a perspective piece in the journal Joule , researchers at the University of Michigan lay out the main questions facing lithium-metal, solid-state batteries. To develop the questions, they worked in close collaboration with leaders in the auto industry. What will the added hardware mean for battery pack performance?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2022

Rice University chemists working with researchers at the Ford Motor Company are turning plastic parts from end-of-life vehicles into graphene via the university’s flash Joule heating process ( earlier post ). Kiziltas said the company expects to use it to reinforce hard plastics as well. —Alper Kiziltas.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 22, 2024

Two and three-wheeler major Bajaj Auto is looking to take its engineering skills training programme to Tier 2 and 3 cities, in order to fill the critical skill gaps faced by the automotive industry. A significant part of these participating companies’ CSR funds will be utilised in this initiative, their executive said.

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Cars That Think

JULY 13, 2023

Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin , authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. Following World War II, he pursued a doctorate in physics at the University of Chicago. Nobel Laureate John B. He and his colleagues were recently granted a U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2009

A new report released by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute ( UMTRI ) analyzes critical choices faced by automakers and finds that broad, deep, fast change is necessary for success in the context of the worst financial crisis in the history of the domestic automobile industry. Source: McManus and Kleinbaum.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The private equity round was led by GSR Ventures, a venture capital firm with more than $1 billion under management that invests primarily in early stage and growth stage technology companies with substantial operations in China. GSR Ventures has offices in Beijing and Silicon Valley. Reorganizing. Purcell, Jr., Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 1, 2022

In the online-only feature story (coming soon), technology historian Matthew Eisler of the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow points out that V2G technology was originally conceived as vehicle-to-home, not vehicle-to-grid. Eisler’s piece charts the history of V2G and tells the story of the California company AC Propulsion.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

million investment in 2015) in Carbon Recycling International ( CRI ), an Icelandic company which produces renewable methanol using recycled CO 2 emissions sourced from a local thermal power plant and hydrogen made by splitting water with electrolysis (Power-to-Methanol). Geely is a shareholder ($45.5-million Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2009

The Commonwealth of Kentucky, the University of Kentucky (UK) and University of Louisville (U of L) are partnering with the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory to establish a national Battery Manufacturing R&D Center to help develop and deploy a domestic supply of advanced battery technologies for vehicle applications.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2017

Effective air quality control is an essential component of green manufacturing for the automotive industry. Some of the problematic processes commonly used in the auto industry include: Welding: Both manual and robotic welding produce microscopic particulates that can make their way deep into the lungs. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The University of California, Davis, and the China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC) have entered a new agreement to work together to help speed the commercialization of plug-in and fuel cell electric cars in China. Major international and Chinese automotive and energy companies will also be invited to participate.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

Starting this year, thousands of battery-powered electric drive Volkswagen vehicles capable of both loading and offloading current—bidirectional charging, as industry calls it—have been rolling off production lines in eastern Germany. And he’s skeptical about the cost factor in home bidirectional chargepoints.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Local Universities. Provide campus charging and free parking (10 distributed charging locations); Commit/fund university fleet purchases (5 high-profile vehicles). The Chevy Volt is truly coming to life, but preparing the market for electric vehicles also requires capable partners from outside the auto industry.

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Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

The interesting thing is before electric cars were popular, no one in the auto industry or mainstream media even questioned where petrol or the metals used in engines are coming from. Work is being done to bring the battery refinement processes to India by companies such as OLA Electric.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Fighting to preserve the EVs that the automakers were crushing almost 20 years ago, saving up to 1,000 from the crusher, and helping keep the cause alive when the government, most environmental organizations, and the car companies had given up. What type of leadership makes you thrive?

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Fighting to preserve the EVs that the automakers were crushing almost 20 years ago, saving up to 1,000 from the crusher, and helping keep the cause alive when the government, most environmental organizations, and the car companies had given up. What type of leadership makes you thrive?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

Stellantis is offering certain higher salaried US employees separation packages to help its “transformation to become a sustainable tech mobility company and the market leader in low-emissions vehicles,” a company spokesperson said. million jobs” in the Japanese auto industry. Little Japan cast doubts on that number.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

Industry officials expect that this $2.4 billion in cost-share from the award winners, will result directly in the creation tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the US battery and auto industries. Companies and universities in Michigan are receiving more than $1 billion of the grants. Ford Motor Company.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 24, 2009

GM CEO Rick Waggoner was pushed out and the company got sixty days to get its act together. And these days a billion dollars is barely a rounding error in the money going to prop up the American auto industry. Here's my April column. Chrysler was told to consummate with Fiat quickly or else. That would be a game changer.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Ford calls the Lightning a “ Model T moment for the 21st Century ” and the company's $50 billion investment in EVs is a bet-the-company proposition. University of Michigan professor emeritus John Leslie King , who has long studied the auto industry. One reason for the new rules, observes professor. New York Times.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 5, 2022

The license plate on that car showed that it was registered to Exelorate Enterprises LLC, the parent company of Steer EV —a DC-based monthly vehicle subscription service. Once governments realize that a company possesses such a trove of information, it could be only a matter of time before they seek access to it. “If

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Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2023

But given the sheer tonnage of lithium, cobalt, and other raw materials needed for EV batteries, that figure is overly optimistic, suggests the mineral market analysis company Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, unless nearly 300 new mines and supporting refineries open by then. These rapid changes also show the fragility of the transition.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Ford Motor Company has entered into two new research collaborations driving innovation in mobility and autonomous vehicles. Without question, we are embarking on one of the most transformative eras in the history of the auto industry—and in the history of Ford. This can be a threat or an opportunity.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Earlier this month, Cummings, a Professor and Director of the Human’s and Autonomy Laboratory at Duke University, was appointed by the Biden Administration to act as the new Senior Advisor of the NHTSA. Cummings also owned nearly 26,000 shares of Veoneer stock, a LiDAR company. That would just not happen,” Homendy added.

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