Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

The US Department of Energy announced nearly $25 million for 13 projects aimed at advancing technologies for energy-efficient electric motors through applied research and development. University of Houston. The 13 projects selected for awards are led by: AK Steel Corporation Research & Innovation. Purdue University. Rice University.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2013

A study of motor vehicle emissions by researchers at UC Berkeley found that running CO and evaporative and tailpipe NMHC emissions from gasoline-powered vehicles in three major US urban centers (NY, LA and Houston) have decreased by almost an order of magnitude over the last twenty years, despite increases in fuel use.

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Teslarati

MAY 10, 2023

The General Motors (GM) robotaxi unit, Cruise, has announced that it will expand to two Texas metro areas in the coming weeks. Now, Cruise has announced yet another expansion in service, coming to Houston and Dallas later this year. I am excited to announce @Cruise will go live in Houston and Dallas in the next few months!

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At the Port of Houston, the project team will conduct a feasibility study for scaling up hydrogen production and use. The team will assess available resources, prospective hydrogen users, and delivery infrastructure, such as existing pipelines that supply hydrogen to refineries.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Legacy automakers, including Ford and General Motors, and new EV startups, like Rivian, have committed to adopting Tesla NACS. The chargers will first be installed in Houston, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington D.C. In October, Tesla sold $100 million Supercharger hardware units to bp America.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 11, 2023

receives a 50-year award from Greg Houston, proper, Ford Motor Co. 50 with Ford Dynamite Kirk, seated, retired broker primary of Kirk Auto Co., a Ford dealership in Grenada, Pass over., regional supervisor. Additionally pictured, from left: Cannon Kirk, broker primary, Tyler Kirk, normal supervisor, and Morgan Kirk, normal supervisor.

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Baua Electric

MAY 9, 2023

has bought 3 Common Motors dealerships in Texas that the automobile retail vast expects will upload $760 million in annual income. The north and south retail outlets are in Houston, moment the Coastal Bend bind in Robstown, is a part of the Corpus Christi metro department. Staff 1 Car Inc. ” Stephens Inc.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 31, 2011

TK TK Palo Alto-based electric auto maker Tesla Motors doesn’t sell cars in its new Houston showroom, sales lot, dealership uh… “gallery” now open in Houston, Texas.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 16, 2022

We were inside his Houston installation shop off I-45 when we noticed that he was anchored by two EV showrooms: Tesla on one end and Lucid on the other end. Last week, while visiting prospective PlotterDepot customers for our new Paint Protection Film, HiTek PPF, we stopped by an awesome car wrap installer. I had […].

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Gulf Racing Fuels include high octane unleaded and leaded fuels (for classic racers, in how lead (100 Motor Octane) and leaded (120 Motor Octane versions)) as well as marine and small engine fuels featuring isobutanol. All fuels are distributed nationally by HYPERFUELS based in Houston, Texas.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 26, 2022

As per a bill of lading initially spotted by electric vehicle advocate @greggertruck , 66 Kuka production line robots arrived in Houston, Texas, on December 18, 2022. 66 Kuka production line robots arrived in Houston on the 18th. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2014

Nat G CNG Solutions, a Houston-based company specializing in compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicle upgrades, has been selected as a Ford Motor Company Qualified Vehicle Modifier (QVM). Ford instituted the QVM Program to improve quality assurance for Ford vehicle modifications, including natural gas vehicle upgrades.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Nat G CNG Solutions has delivered the first natural gas half-ton pickup trucks with General Motors’ 5.3-liter The 2015 model vehicles were purchased by local Houston company NewTex Plumbing and San Antonio-based Pioneer Energy Services. liter direct injection engine. direct injection engine.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2013

Saft has been awarded a contract by MJ EcoPower Hybrid Systems to supply lithium-ion batteries for four new hybrid-powered mobile RTG (Rubber Tired Gantry) cranes serving Houston Harbor in Texas.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

will establish the first scaled domestic manufacturing of high-power density magnetic components based on their engineered alloy technology to commercialize new inductors, transformers, and motors of significantly reduced size and weight. CorePower Magnetics, Inc. Award amount: $5,000,000). Award amount: $20,000,000).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2010

The 200 new hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) join roughly 20,000 low-emission and alternative-fuel vehicles already in use and have been deployed in Austin, Houston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Before this latest deployment, UPS was operating 50 hybrid electrics in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Phoenix. Earlier post.).

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Baua Electric

MAY 15, 2023

The corporate in 2018 purchased its first auto retail dealership, the previous Lone Celebrity Ford in Houston, up to now owned via Sonic Car Inc. “For four generations, Beaumont residents have counted on Kinsel Motors to help them buy and service their vehicles,” co-owner Joe Bob Kinsel mentioned in a remark.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

2021 to add 100,000 Tesla Model 3s , then added EVs from General Motors and Polestar, including plans to buy up to 175,000 GM EVs through 2027. It also rolled out EV rentals and charging in some unlikely places—such as Houston, America’s Big Oil nerve center. It originally announced plans in Oct.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2018

University of Houston will receive $2 million to develop a new class of catalysts with low levels of precious metals for natural gas engine emissions control. million to research a variable displacement motor for the off-highway market that reduces fuel consumption by 30% while increasing power density.

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Baua Electric

MAY 16, 2023

You’ll in finding those tales and extra in lately’s automotive information, proper right here at Motor Authority. Nissan has presented a pristine spherical of updates for the 2024 style pace, in addition to a steep building up in pricing.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 23, 2010

The company will now supply electric drive motors to Ford for both hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles while also expanding its manufacturing capacity at its plant in Houston, Texas, making the location its first base overseas for [.].

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Shell Lubricants announced the arrival of its first shipment of gas-to-liquid (GTL) base oil at the Port of Houston. The product, the first from the Qatar-based Pearl GTL plant to reach the Americas, will be stored at a hub in Houston and routed to Shell Lubricants’ GTL-enabled blending facilities throughout the United States.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 27, 2023

Aurora Innovation plans to launch a commercial service next year with self-driving trucks transporting goods between Dallas and Houston. You’ll find these stories and more in today’s car news, right here at Motor Authority.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2011

The HybriDrive series hybrid electric system consists of a diesel-powered generator, an electric motor, and an energy storage system. Seattle and Houston are taking delivery of HybriDrive-powered buses built by Daimler as will Baltimore City, Md., Atlanta, Ga. and Everett, Wash., and suburban Chicago by the end of 2011.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Initial members of the C40 Electric Vehicle Network are : Bogota, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Copenhagen, Delhi, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Toronto, Sao Paulo, Seoul and Sydney. The four vehicle manufacturers are BYD, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC), Nissan and Renault.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

An Advanced Meso-Scale Peridynamic Modeling Technology Using High Performance Computing for Cost-Effective Product Design and Testing of Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites in Light-Weight Vehicles – Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, MI) will improve the prediction of crash response of carbon composites in auto parts.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2011

The Ford Motor Company has selected Toshiba Corporation to supply automotive inverters for hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV). Toshiba already has a June 2010 contract with Ford under which it will supply high-performance drive motors for HEV and PHEV from 2012, from its facility in Houston, Texas.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

More than 2,200 units are already in service, with an additional 850 firm orders in backlog from cities such as New York City, Seattle, Houston, Ottawa and Puerto Rico. Houston Metro is placing an additional order for 80 Orion VII diesel-electric hybrid buses for 2010 delivery.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 1, 2024

GM Cruise General Motors’ Cruise saw its internal share price cut by more than half from a quarter ago as the fallout from an October accident continues to weigh on the self-driving car company. Cruise employees were told the share price had been estimated by a third party at USD 11.80, according to an email viewed by Reuters.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Ford Motor Company has named the first markets that will sell the Focus Electric, Ford’s all-electric passenger car: Atlanta; Austin and Houston, Texas; Boston; Chicago; Denver; Detroit; Los Angeles; San Francisco; San Diego; New York; Orlando, Fla.; The Focus Electric’s motor will be powered by a 23 kWh lithium-ion battery.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2012

A hybrid vehicle is defined as a motor vehicle with at least two different energy converters and two different energy storage systems on board the vehicle for the purpose of propelling the vehicle. Grants are awarded on a competitive basis with projects ranked according to the cost per ton of NO x reduced by the project.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Ford Motor Company and Oncor announced they are coordinating efforts to help prepare North Texas for the operation of electric vehicles. Earlier, Ford had announced similar partnerships with Austin Energy in Austin and Centerpoint Energy in Houston. Earlier post.). Oncor has already installed more than a million of its 3.4

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

SAKOR Technologies provided the University of Houston’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with a dynamometer test system designed to test motor and inverter designs for use in hybrid and electric vehicle applications. The system features dual opposin 7.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2017

The fuel cell tractor, a Navistar International ProStar day cab, features US Hybrid’s FCe80, 80 kW PEM fuel cell system and a 500 hp traction motor with 2,900 lb-ft of direct drive torque (3,750 N·m). Earlier post.). US Hybrid is also providing Caltrans with a fuel cell street sweeper.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 16, 2022

ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM LYDIA KAVRAKI Rice University Houston “For foundational probabilistic algorithms and randomized search methods that have broad impact in robotic motion planning and computational biology.” IEEE MEDAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES Sponsor: Toyota Motor Corp. IEEE FRANCES E. IEEE JACK S.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2014

The announcement of the fuel cell bus follows New Flyer’s unveiling of a battery-electric propulsion system to the Xcelsior transit bus lineup at the American Public Transit Association Expo tradeshow in Houston, Texas. When braking, the motor acts as a generator to recover energy, just like in conventional hybrid vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2017

General Motors LLC. University of Houston. University of Houston. Research a scalable synthesis to enable very thin coatings on solid state electrolyte membranes to enable high performance Li-Sulfur Battery. University of Maryland: College Park. Using 3D printed, low tortuosity frameworks, develop solid state Li-ion batteries.

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