Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2021

Plug Power plans to build a green hydrogen production plant in Camden County, Georgia, to serve customers across the southeastern United States. As a focal point for Plug Power’s green hydrogen network and the broader US hydrogen economy, Camden County, GA, presents many strategic advantages.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2016

Scientists from ExxonMobil and the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed new free-standing carbon molecular sieve (CMS) membrane technology that could significantly reduce the amount of energy and emissions associated with manufacturing plastics. Results of the research were published in Science.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Hyundai Motor Group officially broke ground today on Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA) LLC’s new manufacturing plant at the Bryan County Mega site. HMGMA’s new smart factory is expected to begin commercial production in the first half of 2025. The Georgia facility will become an intelligent manufacturing plant.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2023

Archer Aviation and Stellantis announced progress in their strategic manufacturing partnership at the 2023 Paris Air Show. The Stellantis and Archer teams are moving full speed ahead in execution mode to ensure we meet our goal of bringing scalable manufacturing of Archer’s aircraft online in mid-2024. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Sustainable technology company Anellotech confirmed significant progress in its Bio-TCat technology development program and has begun planning for scale-up design and engineering of a commercial plant with its process development and design partner IFPEN and commercialization, engineering, and licensing partner Axens.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Eaton’s eMobility business has introduced a new Flex Power Distribution Unit (PDU) for high-voltage electrified commercial vehicles; the new unit is uniquely designed to handle multiple load requirements. The Flex PDU will be introduced on 29 October at the North American Commercial Vehicle (NACV) show in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a promising new conversion-type cathode and electrolyte system that replaces expensive metals and traditional liquid electrolyte with lower cost transition metal fluorides and a solid polymer electrolyte. The Georgia Tech team sought to overcome those obstacles by using the solid polymer electrolyte.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $24 million in funding for 77 projects supported by the Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF). Cold Spray Manufacturing of High-Performance Magnets and Energy-Harvesting Materials, $300,000 TTEC LLC, Berryville, Va. Louisville, Colo.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2021

SK Innovation has specialized in the development and commercialization of high-nickel NCM battery technology. The first two battery plants of SK Innovation in the US are located in Georgia with a total annual capacity of 22 GWh. —Jee Dong-seob, Head of SK Innovation’s Battery Business.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2023

US-based graphite processor Urbix ( earlier post ) announced a Joint Development Agreement with global EV battery developer and manufacturer SK On (SKO). For Urbix, the agreement accelerates its plans to establish a commercial US anode production facility that will produce 28,500 tons of anode products per annum by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2020

School bus manufacturer Blue Bird Corporation has seen a surge in demand for their 100% electric school buses since their introduction in 2018. As the only manufacturer currently producing every bus type in Electric, we can help districts start to introduce and potentially transform their entire fleet over time to zero emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2018

Researchers at Georgia Tech, with colleagues in China and Saudi Arabia, have developed a rationally designed, multi-phase catalyst that significantly enhances the kinetics of oxygen reduction of the state-of-the-art solid oxide fuel cell cathode. This work demonstrates that a multi-phase catalyst coating (?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2011

US President Barack Obama today launched the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP), a national effort bringing together industry, universities, and the federal government to invest in emerging technologies such as information technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. inventions, and in manufacturing-associated R&D.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Critical barriers remain before widespread commercialization can be realized—many of which center around the unique mechanical properties that emerge at solid-solid interfaces in electrochemical cells. MUSIC researchers will look at manufacturing techniques using new materials as a means of lowering battery costs.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2022

Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) entered into an agreement with the State of Georgia to build its first dedicated full electric vehicle and battery manufacturing facilities in the US. The new EV plant and battery manufacturing facilities represent an investment of approximately US$5.54

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2020

ANGP is working with Ingevity as its adsorbent manufacturer because of Ingevity’s global leadership in activated carbons for more than 100 years. Ozinga Energy joins a growing number of US natural gas utilities and private commercial fleets to pilot ANG-equipped vehicles.

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DECEMBER 30, 2021

Batteries Northvolt assembles first lithium-ion battery cell at Swedish gigafactory EVS Georgia Offers Massive Incentive Package to EV Manufacturer Ford Mustang Mach-E to be tested by U.S.

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MAY 21, 2024

The electric vehicle (EV) maker says that there will be a virtual tour of its manufacturing facility in Normal, Illinois, as hosted by CEO RJ Scaringe. “You’ll see Stamping, Body, Paint, Propulsion, General Assembly and End of Line, including how our skilled, diverse and dedicated team assembles our R1T, R1S and commercial vans.”

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JANUARY 22, 2024

The USPS showcased new battery-powered and domestically manufactured commercial off-the-shelf, or COTS, delivery vehicles that will make up a portion of the Postal Service’s fleet of EVs. The first vehicles will hit the streets in Georgia, then expand to other areas of the country.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

billion in loan guarantees for the construction and operation of two new nuclear reactors at a plant in Burke, Georgia. Units 3 and 4 are expected to begin commercial operation in 2016 and 2017, respectively. Georgia’s need for electricity is growing and is expected to increase by approximately 30% over the next 15 years.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2015

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a conditional commitment for a $70-million loan guarantee to help build a cellulosic biorefinery in central Georgia. Ensyn Georgia Biorefinery I, LLC (Ensyn) will construct and operate a cellulosic biofuel refinery in Dooly County, Georgia.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Phase 1 of the ABBA Integrated Biorefinery project, to be built at the AVAPCO Thomaston Georgia site, has begun. The project, which will co-produce full replacement renewable jet fuel, gasoline, diesel and Bioplus nanocellulose from woody biomass in an integrated biorefinery at AVAPCO’s site in Thomaston, Georgia, has received a $3.7-million

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

At an event in Washington, President Obama announced that the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (SMLC) will lead the new Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute, in partnership with the Department of Energy. The Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute is the ninth manufacturing hub awarded by the Obama Administration.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Commercialization of the ATJ process has been years in the making, starting with the partnership between LanzaTech and the US Energy Department’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. LanzaTech’s first commercial plant in China has produced more than 10 million gallons of ethanol from recycled steel mill emissions to date.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2019

The joint grant was funded by the US Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Transportation Office under the recently announced FY19 Commercial Trucks and Off-Road Applications FOA. Sanjeev Mukerjee and Georgia Institute of Technology Prof. Nikola’s trucks will be manufactured in Coolidge, Ariz.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2022

LanzaJet, a sustainable fuels technology company and renewable fuels producer, has secured financing for its Freedom Pines Fuels plant in Soperton, Georgia ( earlier post ), through the Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund. The ethanol is first dehydrated to ethylene in the Dehydration section.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

“Rivian has built an exceptional brand with two incredible consumer vehicles, the R1T and R1S, as well as category-defining commercial vans at its core,” he stated. The ones numbers had been much better than manufacturing of 9,395 cars and gross sales of seven,946 within the first quarter.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2009

a South Korea-based manufacturer of low speed electric vehicles (LSVs) plans to build a range of electric vehicles in the US, beginning with its e-Zone and c-Zone low speed electric vehicles. Company officials are considering potential sites in South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama and California. CT&T Company , Ltd.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2021

Because of increasing demand for value-added rare earth materials in European manufacturing, Toronto-based Neo seeks to expand and diversify its current supplies of rare earth feedstock at Silmet, which is the only operational rare earth separations facility in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2014

A team led by researchers from Georgia Tech have used an electropolymerization process to produce aligned arrays of polymer nanofibers that function as a thermal interface material able to conduct heat 20 times better than the original polymer. It is a member of Georgia Tech''s VentureLab program. Credit: Virendra Singh.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2016

The plant is part of a $60 million investment in advanced 3D printing materials and processes that builds on the Company’s 3D printing capabilities in California, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Texas. Airbus recently selected Alcoa to supply 3D printed titanium fuselage and engine pylon parts for commercial aircraft.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2024

But 3M got out of the data-storage business about 28 years ago, when it transferred its floppy disk manufacturing to a spin-off called Imation. Nor was 3M the first company to popularize magnetic media— that was Ampex , which commercialized the tape recorder in the late 1940s. Brush eventually moved to other manufacturers, like Dupont.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Georgia Tech. Highly Active and Contaminant-Tolerant Cathodes for Durable Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Georgia Tech will focus on the development of highly oxidation-tolerant anodes to reduce reoxidation caused by undesired fuel disruption, depletion, or gas leakage in SOFCs. DOE: $300,000 Non-DOE: $75,500 Total: $375,500.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2023

Hyundai’s first dedicated EV factory, the Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA) in Georgia, is under construction with a targeted start-up date in the second half of 2024, with an annual production capacity of 300,000 vehicles to meet the demand for EVs in North America.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

BONDERITE M-NT 8453 was jointly developed by scientists at Henkel’s Madison Heights, Michigan facility and at the Novelis Global Research and Technology Center in Kennesaw, Georgia. The product is commercially available today and is currently being qualified with several global automakers.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2013

The Obama Administration and academic and industry partners announced a series of commitments in support of the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI, earlier post ), a public-private endeavor that aims to cut in half the time it takes to develop novel materials that can fuel advanced manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2012

LanzaTech has technology, strategic and commercial partnerships with global entities, including eight Fortune 500 global companies. In the United States, LanzaTech is developing a facility to produce renewable fuels and chemicals from regionally sourced waste wood in Soperton, Georgia.

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