Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2019

Toyota’s Kentucky vehicle plant, the company’s largest globally, will begin production of the Lexus ES 300 Hybrid in May 2019 with annual capacity of 12,000 units while RAV4 Hybrid production will start January 2020 with an annual capacity of 100,000 units. New 4-cylinder and V6 engine lines will add 450 new jobs to its Huntsville, Ala.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2020

The Low-Carbon Resources Initiative (LCRI) is an international collaborative spanning the electric and gas sectors that will help advance global, economy-wide deep decarbonization. With increasingly ambitious decarbonization goals from private companies and governments alike, existing technology is not enough to achieve those targets.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 29, 2024

“The investments announced today are part of an overall effort to strengthen and optimize our manufacturing footprint, both globally and within North America,” Steve McKinney, Senior VP and head of Hitachi Energy’s transformer business in North America, told Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Increases in consumption of nonfuel mineral commodities were attributed to the restarting of markets in 2021 following closures due to the global COVID 19 pandemic in the prior year. Fortier, USGS National Minerals Information Center director.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2012

GE researchers, in partnership with Chart Industries—a global manufacturer of standard and custom-engineered products and systems for cryogenic and heat transfer applications—and scientists at the University of Missouri, have been awarded $1.8 Sketch of the targeted at-home unit. Click to enlarge.

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Teslarati

JUNE 5, 2022

billion to add over 6,200 union jobs to its manufacturing plants in Michigan, Ohio, and Missouri. Missouri: In Missouri, Ford plans to make a $95 million investment. Ford aims to produce 2 million electric vehicles per year globally by 2026 through its Ford Model e trademark—a separate operation dedicated to EV production.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2011

Global production of biofuels increased 17% in 2010 to reach an all-time high of 105 billion liters (28 billion gallons US), up from 90 billion liters (24 billion gallons US) in 2009. of all global fuel for road transportation—an increase from 2% in 2009, according to the report. World ethanol and biodiesel production, 1975-2010.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2020

In 2019, the US produced an estimated 500 metric tons of Co from a nickel-copper mine in Michigan and mine tailings in Missouri (less than 1% of global mine production), plus an additional 2,700 metric tons in secondary production (recycled materials, post-industrial, and post-consumer materials).

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Global motion technology company Schaeffler plans to expand its US operations with the addition of a new manufacturing facility focused on producing automotive electric mobility solutions. Schaeffler has 15 factories and 5 R&D sites in the Americas region, including manufacturing sites in Ohio, South Carolina, Missouri and Connecticut.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

A doctoral student in engineering management at Missouri University of Science and Technology, Ona Egbue, is studying potential disruptions to the long-term supply chain for lithium. This action by China highlights the risks of global dependence. —Ona Egbue.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Wirtz Manufacturing, a global provider of equipment design and technology for the lead-acid battery market, has made a strategic investment in ZAF Energy Systems, a manufacturer of nickel-zinc (NiZn) batteries. These investments are being used by the company to hire employees, expand production, and forge strategic partnerships.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2009

The combined average global land and ocean surface temperature for July 2009 ranked fifth-warmest since world-wide records began in 1880. The global ocean surface temperature for July 2009 was the warmest on record, 1.06 °F (0.59 °C) above the 20 th century average of 61.5 °F C), and tied with 2003 as the ninth-warmest July on record.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

million in five US manufacturing plants to support production of its first US-made hybrid powertrain and to implement Toyota’s New Global Architecture (TNGA) at its Alabama plant. Toyota remains the world leader in gasoline-electric hybrids, surpassing 3 million sales in the US and 10 million globally. Toyota will invest $373.8

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2015

Joseph, Missouri; Toledo, Ohio; Changxing, China; Gumi, South Korea and Hannover, Germany. Johnson Controls estimates the global Start-Stop market for new vehicles could reach 38 million annually by 2020. Johnson Controls also makes the seats and supplies the interior hard trim for the 2015 Ford F-150.

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Cars That Think

MAY 28, 2024

For a decade, he led all fiber optics–related activities for Hughes Aircraft and managed a global team of scientists, engineers, and technicians. Two years later, he received a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri in Rolla. He left to move to Missouri, earning a Ph.D.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2013

announced a partnership for the design, construction, and operation of a Biofuels ISOCONVERSION Process (BIC) demonstration system using the ARA and Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) process for the production of certification quantities of 100% drop-in renewable jet, diesel, and gasoline. (ARA) and Blue Sun Energy, Inc. Earlier post.).

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 7, 2024

The outlet then runs down a list of scary sounding statistics that were included in the paper and made to seem utterly massive due to the fact that they are global estimates. The report is even entitled “ Car harm: A Global Review of Automobility's Harm to People and the Environment.” “That was the impetus for this paper.”

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JUNE 2, 2022

“While the global semiconductor chip shortage remains an issue for the industry, our inventory continues to turn at record rates with nearly 50 percent of our retail sales coming from previously placed orders,” Andrew Frick, VP of Sales, Distribution, and Trucks for Ford Blue, said. May 2021 and a 193.4 Ford saw a 4.5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Global demand for critical minerals needed to decarbonize the nation’s economy is expected to increase by 400-600% over the next several decades and the US is increasingly dependent on foreign sources, some adversarial, for many of the processed versions of these minerals.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2014

Smith Electric will resume production in its Kansas City, Missouri, facility in mid-summer 2014. This agreement underscores Sinopoly''s institutional understanding of the global electric vehicle industry and the company''s commitment to working with Smith Electric to create a major player in the market."

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2013

Sparse-Build Rapid Tooling by Fused Depositing Modeling (FDM) for Composite Manufacturing and Hydroforming”, Missouri University of Science and Technology. Fused Depositing Modeling (FDM) for Complex Composites Tooling”, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. Byrd Institute’s Composite Center of Excellence.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

The transaction makes MBP the majority owner of Dow Kokam, which includes the Midland Battery Park in Michigan and the Lee’s Summit facility in Missouri. MBP Investors, LLC (MBP), an affiliate of Townsend Ventures (Townsend) has acquired Dow’s ownership interest in Dow Kokam LLC (Dow Kokam). —Andrew N. Liveris, Dow’s chairman and CEO.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Following a Board meeting on a 2010 multi-vehicle highway accident in Gray Summit, Missouri, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) called for the first-ever nationwide ban on driver use of personal electronic devices (PEDs) while operating a motor vehicle. Globally, there are 5.3 Source: NTSB presentation. Background.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2011

The report to Congress, prepared by Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation, represents the first consistent and coordinated assessment of risks to future water supplies across eight major Reclamation river basins: the Colorado, Columbia, Klamath, Missouri, Rio Grande, Sacramento and San Joaquin, and Truckee river basins.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The piece provided an overview of the emerging field of voice digitization, which the authors suggested might alleviate the stress placed on global telecommunications networks by increased demand for long-distance and overseas phone calls. Joseph Campanella, and A.J. Surely, its staff would know how to handle a flexi disc!

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2019

Missouri University of Science and Technology. Missouri S&T will combine a novel additive manufacturing technique, called ceramic on-demand extrusion, and ceramic fusion welding techniques to manufacture very high temperature heat exchangers for power cycles with intense heat sources. General Electric Company, GE Global Research.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2016

Research at the nexus of food, energy and water. Lead organization. Description. Montana State University. Benjamin Poulter.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

SEV US has commenced production of the Smith Newton electric truck platform at its assembly facility in Kansas City, Missouri, and currently has an order book of 255 trucks. The Transit Connect BEV will be built on Ford’s global commercial vehicle platform as part of the company’s One Ford global product vision.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2011

At Steele City, Nebraska, one arm of the pipeline runs east through Missouri for deliveries into Wood River and Patoka, Illinois; another arm runs south through Oklahoma for deliveries into Cushing, Oklahoma. stabilize climate and avoid disastrous global climate impacts. The tar sands are estimated (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2011

The Mississippi River floods in April and May, which were among the largest and most damaging recorded along the waterway in the past century, the flooding on the Missouri that began in June and the above-average wildfire season that burned 1.3 Develop better tools and models for performing risk assessments.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The project will develop an innovative approach to harvesting hydrokinetic energy in the challenging environment of the Alaskan wilderness, with broader application to shallow streams throughout the United States and globally. DOE Funding: $142,000. Total Project Value: $179,000. DOE Funding: $158,000. Total Project Value: $233,000.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

The roadmap will be made widely available to assist not just US and Chinese developers, but also the global automotive industry. A US-China task force will create a multi-year roadmap to identify R&D needs as well as issues related to the manufacture, introduction and use of electric vehicles. Public awareness and engagement.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

Construction of US manufacturing capabilities to produce the second-generation GM global rear-wheel electric drive system. Missouri University of Science and Technology. $5. Project locations. Technology. General Motors Corporation. White Marsh, MD Wixom, MI. Delphi Automotive Systems, LLC. Kokomo, IN.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

Missouri U. LanzaTech; Materia; SEVA; TowerJazz; Small: Able Industrial Products Inc.; Information Systems Associates; Loman CSI-Consortium/Resource; Makai Ocean engineering; Martin Control Systems; Nila; Nimbis Services; One Cycle Control; Process Systems Enterprise Inc.; VRCO; and many more small and medium-sized manufacturers. .;

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Baua Electric

MARCH 25, 2024

Instead, they mostly mean that the lights can be seen farther south than usual: In recent months, they have been visible in Arizona , Missouri and southern England. There’s only one thing less predictable with the northern lights, and that’s the Arctic weather,” said John Mason, a global expert on the northern lights. “An

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Missouri University of Science & Technology. Researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology will lead a multi-disciplinary team to develop a disruptive new high energy air cathode to enable the successful development of ultra-high energy Lithium-Air batteries. GE Global Research Center. (GE NanoLab Inc.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2015

University of Missouri, Lehigh University, and Evapco). General Electric Company – GE Global Research. If successful, these new cooling technologies could significantly reduce water usage at thermoelectric plants without sacrificing a plant’s performance or increasing its cooling costs. ARID AWARDS. Lead organization. Description.

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