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JULY 25, 2021

Eastman is collaborating with the United States Automotive Materials Partnership LLC ( USAMP ) and automotive recycler PADNOS for a concept feasibility study to demonstrate a closed-loop project to recycle automotive-industry mixed plastic waste in the automotive supply chain. That’s why this project is so exciting.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

The researchers made their discovery by developing a technique to measure the amounts of inactive lithium species on the anode—a first in the field of battery research—and studying their micro- and nanostructures. The findings could pave the way for bringing rechargeable lithium metal batteries from the lab to the market.

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JUNE 23, 2023

Power 2023 US Initial Quality Study (IQS) , the rise in problems is 12 PP100 greater than in 2022, which follows an increase of 18 PP100 in 2022 from 2021. The study is designed to provide manufacturers with information to facilitate the identification of problems and to drive product improvement. According to the newly released J.D.

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OCTOBER 22, 2019

The company’s membership in the Mobility Systems Center builds on its participation as a sponsor of MITEI’s Mobility of the Future study , which will be released in November. Other members of the study consortium are Alfa, Aramco, BP, Chevron, Equinor, Ferrovial, General Motors, Shell, and the Toyota Mobility Foundation.

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MAY 21, 2020

Now—almost five years later—a study by the University of York and Empa shows that the retrofitting was successful from an environmental point of view. In another study last year, the researchers had already found significantly higher NO x emissions caused by diesel cars on cold days. Expensive lawsuits followed.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A new study suggests that the global electric vehicle market will multiply in valuation by five times by 2030, based on new data acquired by Allied Market Research. The new study says that the global EV sector will reach $823.74 ” The study also looks into the regions that are highly associated with EVs , like Europe and Asia.

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JUNE 9, 2023

General Motors plans to invest more than $500 million in Arlington Assembly to prepare the plant for production of future internal combustion engine (ICE) full-size SUVs, subject to successful discussions with local government officials. Initial Quality Study. The Yukon Denali Ultimate trim also tied for first in the J.D.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

General Motors India and Reva Electric Car Company (REVA) have entered into a collaboration agreement to develop electric vehicles for the Indian market. The agreement was announced jointly by Karl Slym, president and managing director, General Motors India and Chetan Maini, deputy chairman and chief technology officer, REVA.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2017

As part of MIT’s five-year Plan for Action on Climate Change, the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) has launched a major study—“Mobility of the Future”—to explore how consumers and markets will respond to potentially disruptive technologies, business models, and government policies.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

The Material Technology Innovation Award was presented in Shanghai during the 2013 China Automobile & Parts Industry Development & Innovation Awards sponsored by Automobile & Parts magazine, the Shanghai Overseas Exchange Association and the Tongji University Automotive Studies School.

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JUNE 29, 2021

The United States is the third-largest electric vehicle (EV) producer behind China and Europe; a new study from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) finds that the gap has widened. About 33% of General Motors’ $27-billion EV commitment is being invested in specific US assembly plants. Source: The ICCT.

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Teslarati

APRIL 17, 2024

The study will take approximately a year before NASA makes its decision on the winner. As part of the feasibility study, Intuitive Machines was awarded $30 million and as of this writing, the only company to acknowledge how much they were awarded for the first phase. Here is a quick overview of each company’s designs.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

According to a recent research study by Morgan Stanley, Ford Motor Company is on pace to outsell General Motors (GM) in the EV market for 2021. The research compares Ford’s EV sales through the first ten months of this year against GM’s, while noting the latter’s halt to Bolt production.

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EV Specifications

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Vale Canada and General Motors signed a term sheet for the long-term supply of battery-grade nickel sulfate from Vale's proposed plant at Bécancour, Québec, Canada. Vale and GM have also agreed to study collaborative ways to partner on advanced. This agreement secures for GM a supply of nickel sulfate from a U.S.

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AUGUST 5, 2013

The NanoSteel Company released the results of an automotive light-weighting study it had commissioned from EDAG, Inc., EDAG used methodology in the study consistent with recent similar studies, including NHTSA’s “Light Weight Vehicle (LWV)” study in 2012, and WorldAutoSteel’s “Future Steel Vehicle” design in 2011.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Power 2016 US Vehicle Dependability Study (VDS). The number of problems with infotainment, navigation and in-vehicle communication systems—collectively known as audio, communication, entertainment and navigation or ACEN—has increased and now accounts for 20% of all customer-reported problems in the study.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

A new study by MIT researchers, published this month in Atmospheric Environment , finds that in Europe, 10 major auto manufacturers produced diesel cars, sold between 2000 and 2015, that generate up to 16 times more NO x emissions on the road than in regulatory tests—a level that exceeds European limits but does not violate any EU laws.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

According to the study , if deployed at scale, hydrogen could account for almost one-fifth of total final energy consumed by 2050. In addition to being a key pillar in of the energy transition, the study shows that hydrogen has the potential to develop US$2.5 trillion of business, creating more than 30 million jobs by 2050.

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MARCH 6, 2013

The study includes a brief discussion on the effects of potential future changes in vehicle fuel economy, vehicle distance travelled, and vehicle load on the amount of fuel used for personal transportation. The study was supported by Sustainable Worldwide Transportation. —Sivak 2013.

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JUNE 20, 2012

General Motors and its research partners recently studied how non-driving activities influence driver behavior in self-steering, semi-autonomous vehicles. The GM study examined the demands on the driver’s visual attention in hands-on steering and automated steering, both with full-speed range adaptive cruise control engaged.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The study, which was funded in part by grants from the National Science Foundation, CMU’s Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research, General Motors, Ford and Toyota, is to appear in the journal Transportation Research (Part D). —Traut et al.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 15, 2024

Honda’s partnership with General Motors yielded the Prologue EV and Acura ZDX, and the Japanese automaker is now looking to team up with Nissan to do more of the same. The pair haven’t detailed the entire relationship yet but said that they would conduct a study to find the best ways to collaborate.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

General Motors partnered with the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute to understand the real-world effectiveness of some of its available active safety, driver assistance, and advanced headlighting features that may prevent or mitigate different types of crashes. The study leveraged 3.7

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Green Cars News

MAY 13, 2010

If you were wondering whether or not General Motors is truly throwing its weight behind green technology then take a look at its list of 1,300 patents filed last year – more than half of them were devoted to green innovations. A study released by the Intellectual Capital Merchant Banc firm Ocean Tomo LLC looked into [.].

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

and General Motors signed a term sheet for the long-term supply of battery grade nickel sulfate from Vale’s proposed plant at Bécancour, Québec, Canada. Vale and GM have also agreed to study collaborative ways to partner on advanced technology development and commercialization pathways to harvest recycled metals.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

General Motors (GM) is expanding its hands-free Super Cruise advanced driver assistance system to full-size SUVs starting in mid-November. The study found that 53% of Super Cruise users were “comfortable treating their vehicles as fully self-driving.” 2023 Chevrolet Suburban – High Country and Premier trims.

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AUGUST 6, 2022

The study provides a comprehensive analysis of the cost and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of a variety of vehicle-fuel pathways; the levelized cost of driving (LCD); and the cost of avoided GHG emissions.

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JULY 1, 2015

Recent studies have shown, however, that with smaller Mg particles, the sorption kinetics improve. Since volume change during sorption generates stress, leading in turn to plastic deformation, the fundamentals of the mechanical deformation of the Mg particles are a significant issue.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 19, 2017

Today, a study on electric-car emissions is based on questionable assumptions, General Motors offers B20 biodiesel capability in several car and truck models, and a Wyoming bill would essentially ban utilities from using renewable energy. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe said, “After studying this for a year, we decided that this would be difficult as a business, so at the moment we are ending development of an affordable EV. GM and Honda will search for a solution separately. This project itself has been canceled.” Mibe didn’t elaborate further, but a host of issues could be at play.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Results of a new design study for a lightweight steel proof-of-concept twist beam (used in suspensions) by the Steel Market Development Institute’s (SMDI) Automotive Applications Council indicate that the preferred U-Beam Design based on 22MnB5 tubular construction with DP780 and SPFH540 sheet achieves a 30.0% and General Motors Co.,

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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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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The feasibility study and site selection evaluation for the European Manufacturing Center has been completed with the plant scheduled to be in place to support major European vehicle plants in 2021. The Farasis Energy contract award, valued at $5.9

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MAY 17, 2012

In response, the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Renewable Fuels Association charged that the study was fundamentally flawed. The study claims mechanical damage and suggests degraded engine performance, emissions and durability on conventional vehicles from the use of E15 or E20 fuel. We believe the study is significantly flawed.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

A group of leading automotive and technology industry companies including Arm, Bosch, Continental, DENSO, General Motors, NVIDIA, NXP Semiconductors and Toyota have joined forces to help accelerate the delivery of safer and affordable autonomous vehicles at scale with the formation of the Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium (AVCC).

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

A study by Ricardo for the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) concludes that the adoption of E15 as the blend limit for standard US pump grades of gasoline rather than the current E10 should not adversely affect vehicles manufactured between 1994 and 2000 in terms of their performance and durability based on normal specifications and usage profile.

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JULY 24, 2012

OnStar and General Motors are partnering in the Pecan Street Inc.’s GM and OnStar’s official partnership allows researchers from Pecan Street and GM to study how these families’ Volts interact with the smart grid on a daily basis and how they interact with other sustainable technologies. Supported by a $10.4

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