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developer of a family of low cost, renewable furoate esters (xF) for use as oxygenating blend components (5%-20%) in both gasoline and diesel fuels, as well as heating oil and other specialty applications, has appointed former GM Vice Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Tom Stephens as an independent director of the Company, effective immediately.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Ford Motor Company. This project will identify fuel properties that can be used to enable novel combustion strategies with low emissions of nitrogen oxides in an engine, and enhance existing models to capture the effect of additional key fuel properties on combustion. Ford Motor Company. drop-in replacement fuels). 3,500,000.

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AUGUST 11, 2016

The plates employed a unique method of adding low-cost alloy elements into the molten steel, resulting in the dispersion of highly conductive metal inclusions throughout the steel, thereby delivering the needed electrical conductivity. Sumitomo worked with British start-up ACAL Energy Ltd. earlier post ).

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AUGUST 16, 2016

Accelerated Development and Deployment of Low‐Cost Automotive Mg Sheet Components (Area of Interest 3). Advances for the Production of Low‐Cost Electric Drive vehicle Motors (Area of Interest 5). General Motors. West Virginia University Research Corporation. General Motors.

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JULY 12, 2011

The City is also collaborating with the cities of Boston and Philadelphia as part of the Northeast Regional Electric Vehicle Partnership to improve conditions for electric vehicles and alleviate barriers to early electric vehicle adoption through low-cost, high-impact actions.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

The resulting cells are to incorporate safe operation, low cost, long cycle life and high power performance. Runkle is currently CEO of EcoMotors International ( earlier post ), Chairman of EaglePicher Corporation and an operating executive with Tennenbaum Capital Partners.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

This technique is also scalable and employs low cost materials. HRL Laboratories is a corporate research-and-development laboratory owned by The Boeing Company and General Motors specializing in research into sensors and materials, information and systems sciences, applied electromagnetics, and microelectronics.

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MARCH 11, 2010

GE is developing improvements to its sodium metal halide batteries for use in a new generation of cleaner locomotives and stationary applications to smooth intermittent renewable power generation as it interconnects with the grid and critical load back-up power and other applications. Ultralife Corporation. General Motors.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

General Motors is working with communities such as San Francisco to develop a plan of action to establish the supporting technical and policy infrastructure required for broad commercialization of plug-in electric vehicles such as the upcoming Chevrolet Volt. GM described its approach at the Washington Auto Show. Local Universities.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

automaker since Henry Ford’s Ford Motor debuted its shares in 1956. electric-car maker Tesla Motors plans to go public soon, two sources familiar with the matter said, amid growing interest in green technology and battery-powered vehicles. automaker since Henry Ford’s Ford Motor debuted its shares in 1956.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

CleanFUEL USA, a leading supplier of alternative fuel infrastructure and propane engine systems, will build and certify a multi-purpose 8-liter General Motors (GM) propane engine in partnership with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC), a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America. infrastructures (e.g.,

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contains no rare earths, in a prototype electric motor. Research, TECO Westinghouse Motor. High Performance, Low Cost Superconducting Wires and Coils. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. All generators contain coils of wire. If successful.

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MARCH 14, 2009

The economic impact of a General Motors or Chrysler bankruptcy is being debated across the country. According to Marcero, who is part of the firm’s Corporate Advisory and Restructuring Services team based in Southfield, Mich.,

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JULY 21, 2016

General Motors. Battery costs exceeded $500/kWh when President Obama launched his EV Everywhere Grand Challenge goal of making EVs that are as affordable and convenient for the American family as gasoline-powered vehicles, and low-cost, high performance batteries are a key component of the strategy to attain the President’s goal.

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Of the lead recipients, 43% are small businesses, 35% are educational institutions, and 19% are large corporations. Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications.

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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.”.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Great Wall Motor Co., Those prices are much lower than that of General Motors Corp.s Chinese auto makers also showed other types of "new energy" vehicles, including regular gasoline-electric hybrids to compete with Toyota Motor Corp.s in late 2010. GM plans to launch the Volt in China in 2011. Prius hybrid.

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MAY 8, 2009

Mascoma Corporation has made major research advances in consolidated bioprocessing, or CBP, a low-cost processing strategy for production of biofuels from cellulosic biomass. This is a true breakthrough that takes us much, much closer to billions of gallons of low cost cellulosic biofuels. Earlier post.)

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MAY 10, 2009

The 31 st Symposium of Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals in San Francisco marked some significant advances for biofuel technology, not least of which were those announced by the Mascoma Corporation. It is believed that these advances can reduce the operating and capital costs required for cost effective commercial production of ethanol.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform. Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors. BYD also developed the motors and software for the system.

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APRIL 16, 2009

BYD makes about 80% of Motorolas RAZR handsets, as well as batteries for iPods and iPhones and low-cost computers, including the model distributed by Nicholas Negropontes One Laptop per Child nonprofit based in Cambridge, Mass. The big problem is that they are expensive to make, and the single largest cost is the battery.

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