Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

USABC awarded the contract to continue Johnson Controls’ development of lithium-ion battery technology for plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) applications to meet USABC goals for low-cost, long-life, high-power and high energy vehicle systems. The improved energy density is aimed at reducing cost, volume and mass.

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Li-ion PHEV Lithium Ion Milwaukee 240

Cars That Think

MARCH 15, 2024

GE Aerospace Research “I am a believer that this type of material is a game changer,” says Ayman El-Refaie , an IEEE Fellow and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisc. The peak efficiency of the GE motor was 94 percent, on a par with the best motors used today in commercial EVs.

Motor 128

Motor Motors Motoring Universal 128

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APRIL 2, 2024

Nor was 3M the first company to popularize magnetic media— that was Ampex , which commercialized the tape recorder in the late 1940s. A number of years ago, back when I lived in Milwaukee, I found a couple of blank reel-to-reel tapes created by 3M using the Scotch name. I bought them from a junk store, and maybe paid $2 for them.

Corporation 141

Corporation Atlanta Minnesota Personal 141