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University of Tennessee to head $250M advanced composites manufacturing institute; Ford, Honda and Volkswagen members

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The new institute pairs leading carbon fiber producers and suppliers—such as Materials Innovation Technologies, Harper International, and Strongwell—with key end users such as TPI for wind turbines and Ford, Honda and Volkswagen for automobiles. Adherent Technologies, Inc.; Honda R&D Americas, Inc.; TPI Composites, Inc.;

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US DOE awards more than $175M to 40 projects for advanced vehicle research and development

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Ford Motor Company. Ford Motor Company. This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber. Plasan Carbon Composites. General Motors LLC.

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DOE awards nearly $55M to advance fuel efficient vehicle technologies in support of EV Everywhere and SuperTruck

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General Motors. This project will utilize a systems approach to design and demonstrate an ultra-lightweight carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites door assembly through the integration of unique designs, novel materials, and manufacturing technologies and joining/assembly of subsystems. Ford Motor. Description.

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DOE awards $1.87M to 7 projects to advance high performance computing in manufacturing

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Eaton Corporation will partner with ORNL to develop waste heat recovery (WHR) technology that can be applied to industrial manufacturing processes and vehicle operations in a project titled “High Performance Computing to Enable Next-generation Low- temperature Waste Heat Recovery.”. million tons of CO 2.

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DOE to award more than $55M to 31 projects for plug-in and efficient vehicle technologies; Delphi receives $10M to further GDCI

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Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) Development of Carbon Fiber Composites for Lightweight Vehicles (Area of Interest 2). Ford Motor Company. Eaton Corp. Ford Motor Company. Eaton Corp. Early Market Commercialization Opportunities (Area of Interest 14).

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ARPA-E selects 13 projects for $30M in awards to advance natural gas vehicle technologies

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Topping the award list is Ford Motor Company, with a $5.5-million Eaton Corporation will develop an at-home natural gas. Eaton will engineer a heat-transfer. Ford Motor. Ford Motor Company will engineer a high-performance natural. intestine storage tanks could be as light as today’s carbon fiber.

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