Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2012

Final time for the 1,650-mile (2,655 km) competition was 44:36:21—10 hours and 18 minutes ahead of second-place Iowa State. Major sponsors of the U-M Solar Car team include IMRA America, Michigan Engineering, Ford Motor and General Motors. More than 100 students created Quantum.

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Solar Iowa Michigan Lithium Ion 240

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For several years, the automobile industry has grappled with a straightforward question: Is it possible to produce a powerful, efficient, and mass-producible synchronous motor that contains no rare-earth elements at all? I call it the perversity of nature,” jokes Matthew Kramer , Distinguished Scientist at Ames National Laboratory , in Iowa.

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GM Motor Motors Motoring 103

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2012

A study by researchers at Iowa State University has determined that the automotive industry has a very large potential to utilize biobased materials. General Motors. Their report, “Biobased Automobile Parts Investigation”, was developed for the USDA Office of Energy Policy and New Uses.

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Auto Industry Industrial Industry Auto 252

Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2015

REG, headquartered in Ames, Iowa, produces renewable hydrocarbon diesel fuel from waste vegetable oils and animal fats at its Geismar, Louisiana, bio-refinery as well as biodiesel at nine bio refining locations in the US. Neste, headquartered in Espoo, Finland, is the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel. trillion.

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Renewable Diesel Alternative Fuels Louisiana 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

Advances for the Production of Low‐Cost Electric Drive vehicle Motors (Area of Interest 5). General Motors. Work with development partners to design and construct both heavy rare earth and entirely rare earth free motor designs using a multi‐layered motor rotor design. Iowa State University. General Motors.

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Vehicles Plug-in Lithium Ion Universal 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Iowa State will use metabolic engineering and synthetic biology to enhance the production of lipids and increase carbon dioxide assimilation and thermal tolerance within algae for the production of biofuels directly from sunlight and CO 2. DOE grant: $5,205,706). A Genetically Tractable Microalgal Platform for Advanced Biofuel Production.

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Energy Grant Low Cost Li-ion 231