Remove Cost Of Remove General Motors Remove Grant Remove Products
article thumbnail

Lightning eMotors announces production launch of GM-based ZEV4 work trucks

Green Car Congress

Lightning eMotors announced the production launch of its next generation General Motors (GM)-based Lightning ZEV4 work trucks. This announcement follows the company’s recent announcements of accelerated ZEV4 production to meet customer demands for Class 4 school buses and shuttle buses built on the same popular platform.

GM 397
article thumbnail

Lithium-ion battery recycler ABTC expands operations and capacity with newly purchased facility

Green Car Congress

Most recently in November 2022, ABTC was selected for a competitive US DOE grant for a $20-million project to develop and commercialize a set of next-generation battery recycling technologies to even further enhance the recovery of recycled products and reduce the cost of operations.

article thumbnail

UAW Reaches Tentative Deal With All Detroit Automakers, Striking Ends

The Truth About Cars

But General Motors wasn’t far behind and managed to settle things with the union early Monday morning. It was apparently too much for the company to endure and news broke early on Monday that General Motors (now standing alone against the UAW) had likewise reached a tentative contract agreement with the union.

Detroit 110
article thumbnail

NanoSteel and AK Steel deliver next-gen advanced high-strength steel to GM

Green Car Congress

NanoSteel, a leader in nanostructured steel materials ( earlier post ), announced the delivery of its first advanced high-strength steel (AHSS) to General Motors for initial testing. In 2015, AK Steel announced a $29-million project to enable production of the next-generation AHSS. Earlier post.).

Idaho 150
article thumbnail

32.5M hours of supercomputer time to aid GM, Ford engine projects with Oak Ridge Lab

Green Car Congress

As part of its 2014 ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge ( ALCC ) awards of processor time (totaling more than 3 billion processor hours), the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science has awarded 15 million hours on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Titan supercomputer to a project led by General Motors, and 17.5

Engine 335
article thumbnail

Broad-Ocean Motor in strategic collaboration with Ballard; $28.3M investment, 9.9% ownership; initial order for 10,000 fuel cell vehicles

Green Car Congress

Broad-Ocean produces more than 50 million motors annually for customers on 5 continents, including King Long, Yutong, Van Hool, BAE Systems, SAIC Motor, FAW, Dongfeng, General Motors, Ford, Volvo, Fiat, TATA, Cummins, Caterpillar, Carrier, Trane, Daikin, Goodman, Gree and Midea. ownership interest.

Motor 150
article thumbnail

Remembering Lithium-Ion Battery Pioneer John Goodenough

Cars That Think

He and his colleagues were recently granted a U.S. Starting in the 1990s, his lithium cobalt oxide cathode was used in many electronic products including camcorders, laptop computers, and mobile phones. The duo created a lithium-ion battery with lower voltage but also lower cost and greater safety. Stanley Whittingham.