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OCTOBER 4, 2009

Toyota’s targeted cost reductions in fuel cell vehicles. In a news conference at the Japan National Press Club on Friday, Toyota Motor President Akio Toyoda said that the company plans to begin mass production of electric vehicles in the US in 2012, followed by US production of fuel cell vehicles in 2015. Source: Toyota.

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MARCH 24, 2024

Designed to help both Honda and former EV pioneer, Nissan, play catch up with brands like Tesla and emerging Chinese rivals, the new arrangement follows shortly after Honda terminated its proposed EV venture with General Motors.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

Xcel Energy has launched a new pilot for customers of five major automakers to make it easier for consumers to make the switch to electric vehicles in Colorado and to charge their EVs at times when renewable energy production is high and demand on the energy grid is low. Costs for purchasing an eligible Level 2 charger can also be included.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will develop a new process that enables low-cost, domestic manufacturing of magnesium. 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. 10,000,000.

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MARCH 26, 2010

Researchers from the General Motors Global Research and Development, Chemical Sciences and Materials Systems Lab have developed and demonstrated the use of strontium-doped perovskite oxides as efficient platinum substitutes in diesel oxidation (DOC) and lean NO x trap (LNT) catalysts. Click to enlarge. Science Vol.

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MAY 1, 2014

H 2 FIRST’s technical goal is to develop and apply physical testing, numerical simulation and technology validation to help create low-cost, high-performance materials, components and station architectures. Toyota will begin selling its Fuel Cell Vehicle in 2015.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

General Motors and Honda are establishing the auto industry’s first manufacturing joint venture—Fuel Cell System Manufacturing, LLC, FCSM)—to mass-produce an advanced hydrogen fuel cell system that will be used in future products from each company. The result is a lower-cost system that is a fraction of the size and mass.

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JULY 12, 2011

The site also includes a map of public charging stations in the city, a cost calculator link to help potential owners understand the total cost of an electric vehicle versus a conventional vehicle—including fuel costs—and describes how electric cars work in everyday use.

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JULY 8, 2011

improved performance, safety, long life, and low cost. Reducing battery costs. General Motors, ANSYS, and ESim. Selected teams will contribute 50% of the costs of the project over the next three years bringing the overall project budget to $14 million. aging data as input.

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AUGUST 6, 2014

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

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Ford Motor Company. ?This General Motors. This project will develop heat-generating foils to provide strong and stable bonds between aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys, and steels. In the last four years, the cost of a plug-in electric vehicle battery has come down by nearly 50%. Johns Hopkins University.

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JULY 15, 2010

Once physical feasibility is established, commercialization is ultimately determined by cost. Packaging and high volume cost analyses of projected technologies are outside of the scope of this Perspective. geometric loadings of commercially optimized Pt/carbon black cathode catalysts, costing several thousands of dollars per vehicle.

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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. the demand for LPG is relatively high.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

GM’s second-generation fuel-cell system (engineer included for scale.) Work that has been going on since then has been less focused on just the stack itself, and more on the mass production at low cost of fuel cell system, said Freese. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) GM has invested more than $1.5 Charles Freese.

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JULY 21, 2016

During past eight years the number of plug-in electric vehicle models has increased from one to more than 20, battery costs have decreased 70%, and the number of electric vehicle charging stations has increased from less than 500 in 2008 to more than 16,000 today—a 40-fold increase. General Motors. Duke Energy.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

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. superconducting wire that can be used in future advanced wind turbine generators. University, General.

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The same basic principle was used by the VIA powertrain, and would electrify current General Motors vehicles. VIA was focused on fleet sales and a low cost of ownership. The math worked out (per VIA) that after eight years of use, fleet customers would save roughly a third on ownership costs.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

General Motors has done something remarkable, enough so that we were tempted to jump them up to the top of this chart until they stumbled recently. The Leaf has increased its range, looks and functionality since its introduction and remains a key affordable EV choice while used Leafs offer a low-cost EV alternative.

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JUNE 12, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded more than $54 million—leveraging approximately an additional $17 million in cost share from the private sector—for 13 projects to advance transformational technologies and materials that can help manufacturers significantly increase the energy efficiency of their operations and reduce costs.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

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. Low Cost, High Energy and Power Density, Nanotube-Enhanced Ultracapacitors.

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APRIL 21, 2009

General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform. Carmakers response to real and specific concerns about battery lifetime, up-front costs, and safety issues is to focus on engineering and testing for an unspecified number of years.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

BYDs plug-in, called the F3DM (for "dual mode"), goes farther on a single charge - 62 miles - than other electric vehicles and sells for about $22,000, less than the plug-in Prius and much-hyped Chevy Volt are expected to cost when they hit the market in late 2010. executive who has studied BYD. Wang typically works until 11 p.m.

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