Cars That Think

AUGUST 30, 2022

He visited 15 automobile factories and 20 other manufacturers, trying to assess the industrial needs for a robotic arm. General Motors was the first company to bite. On a fateful day in 1961, the Unimate pictured at top took its place on the assembly line of General Motors’ Ternstedt plant, in Trenton, N.J.

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General Motors Japan GM Industrial 93

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2011

General Motors and Teijin Limited., In November, Teijin announced it would establish the first pilot plant for fully integrated production of CFRTP components from carbon fiber on the premises of its Matsuyama Factory in Ehime Prefecture, Japan. Earlier post.).

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Carbon Fiber Carbon GM Fuel Economy 249

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Honda will begin sales in Japan of the Clarity Fuel Cell in March 2016. The next-generation fuel cell system which is being developed jointly with General Motors will move on to the next stage that includes production and purchasing, aiming at a product launch around 2020.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Leading vehicle manufacturers in fuel cell technology—Daimler AG, Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corporation/Opel, Honda Motor Co., These companies have built up extensive expertise in fuel cell technology; the signing marks a major industry step towards the serial production of such locally emission-free vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

In their study, they used three different alternative powertrain/fuel models: less aggressive, moderately aggressive and very aggressive, applied across four developed economies (United States, Western Europe, Japan, and South Korea) and four developing economies (Brazil, Russia, India, and China). Production forecasts from IHS.

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Get Electric Vehicle

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

According to Nikkei Asia, the new electric vehicles will include music and other networking functions, in addition to improved driving performance and safety The electric vehicles will then be available in Japan in 2026, followed by Europe. Honda, like its larger rival Toyota Motor, has been hesitant to transition to an electric fleet.

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Plug In Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2007

GS Yuasa Corporation , Mitsubishi Corporation, and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation announced that, effective December 12, they have formed the joint venture company " Lithium Energy Japan " to produce large capacity and high performance lithium-ion batteries.

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Charging Li-ion Lithium Ion Mitsubishi 100

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2013

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, originally known as Clinton Laboratories, was established in 1943 to carry out the pilot-scale production and separation of plutonium for the World War II Manhattan Project. WAND: US/Japan Wide-Angle Neutron Diffractometer. Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Powder: Neutron Powder Diffractometer.

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Transportation Clean Cleaning Li-ion 316

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2010

The European automobile manufacturers have agreed to a first phase of joint specifications to connect electrically chargeable vehicles to the electricity grid in a safe and user-friendly way. Ivan Hodac, Secretary-General of ACEA, the automobile industry’s trade association in Brussels. Public charging (infrastructure side).

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Plug-in Grid Connect Connected 199

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks. Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans.

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Wang entered the automobile business in 2003 by buying a Chinese state-owned car company that was all but defunct. "Importing batteries from Japan was very expensive," Wang says. Deploying the armies of laborers at BYD is an officer corps of managers and engineers who invent and design the products.

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BYD 2009 Companies Electric Cars 62

Cars That Think

JUNE 21, 2022

It’s one of the great stories of corporate intrigue: General Motors in the US and Sumitomo in Japan independently conceived the technology, and then worked in secret, racing to commercialize the technology, and without even being aware of the other’s efforts. Today, some 95 percent of permanent magnets are neodymium-iron-boron.

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General Motors North America Motor Motors 145

The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

percent tariff, the changes would effectively make those products prohibitively expensive. Hawley has correctly identified that there’s been an influx of Chinese-made automobiles onto Western nations of late. For example, over half of the General Motors vehicles sold inside Mexico are actually assembled in China.

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