Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2011

President Obama today announced nearly $4 billion in combined federal and private sector energy upgrades to buildings over the next 2 years. billion square feet of office, industrial, municipal, hospital, university, community college and school buildings. —President Obama.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Obama also launched a competition for a new manufacturing innovation institute to build US strength in manufacturing advanced composites, the first of four new competitions to be launched this year. Collaboration across industry, academia and government provides an opportunity to directly address these challenges in a pre-competitive way.

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JANUARY 16, 2014

President Obama announced the selection of a consortium of businesses and universities, led by North Carolina State University, to lead a manufacturing innovation institute for next-generation power electronics. Earlier post.). reducing the size of a sub-station to a suit case).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2015

President Obama issued an Executive Order establishing the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI). Developing an enduring public-private collaboration to ensure that the benefits of the research and development advances are, to the greatest extent, shared between the United States Government and industrial and academic sectors.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2011

US President Barack Obama today launched the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP), a national effort bringing together industry, universities, and the federal government to invest in emerging technologies such as information technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. inventions, and in manufacturing-associated R&D.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

Obama was delivering a speech on energy policy at Georgetown University. Meeting the goal of cutting US oil dependence depends largely on two things, Obama said: finding and producing more oil at home, and reducing dependence on oil with cleaner alternative fuels and greater efficiency. —President Obama.

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MARCH 29, 2009

The Detroit Free Press reports that the Obama Administration has asked GM CEO Rick Wagoner to resign, which Wagoner agreed to do today. President Obama will unveil his new rescue plan for GM and Chrysler in a White House ceremony on Monday. Most industry insiders were not entirely surprised, given the political mood.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) recently signed a memorandum of understanding to partner to help US industry and businesses expand use of high performance computing (HPC). Rensselaer and LLNL have a successful history of reaching out to industry.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2014

The Obama Administration released the Implementation Plan for the National Strategy for the Arctic Region , itself released in May 2013.

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MARCH 7, 2009

The Obama administration reportedly is at work on a new, more stringent fuel economy standard that will likely supplant California’s efforts to regulate tailpipe greenhouse gas emissions. Detroit Free Press.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 18, 2011

In the middle of his much-publicized bus tour into the nation's agricultural heartland on Tuesday, President Obama announced a new initiative to kickstart the U.S. biofuel industry, which among other things would create more jobs for rural communities in the biofuel production chain.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2009

In a statement livecast on the Internet by the White House, President Barack Obama said that neither of the restructuring plans submitted by GM and Chrysler “ goes far enough to warrant substantial new investment. ”. President Obama. President Obama. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). We have no intention of running GM.

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JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Earlier post.). Expanding the Better Buildings Challenge. Energy Efficiency.

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APRIL 21, 2021

Factorial also announced the appointment of senior industry leaders with deep technical and automotive experience to its leadership team. Factorial Energy , a start-up solid-state battery technology company, emerged from stealth mode with a 40Ah solid-state battery cell for electric vehicles (EVs) and other applications.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 16, 2010

If they don’t, then the car industry warns it’ll be hard to hit President Obama’s goal of one million electric and/or plug-in vehicles on the road by 2015. Read more in the WSJ article by Josh Mitchell: Auto Industry Plugs Electric-Car Subsidies. Tags: EV Economics Obama Energy. the introduction of EVs.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Two days ago, President Barack Obama released his proposed U.S. And in it, he followed through on a promise from his State of the Union address last month, by proposing to cut up to $4 billion in subsidies to the oil and gas industry. government budget for the fiscal year starting in October.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Obama's cabinet is looking very friendly toward ethanol, The Hill reports. Will "flex-fuel" once again subvert the necessary transformation of the American auto industry? Tags: vilsack cabinet daschle barack obama cellulosic ethanol lahood corn ethanol salazar.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

The Obama Administration is launching competitions to create three new manufacturing innovation institutes with a Federal commitment of $200 million across five Federal agencies: Defense, Energy, Commerce, NASA, and the National Science Foundation. Earlier post.). Winning teams will be selected and announced later this year.

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MARCH 18, 2016

This effort also advances President Obama's National Strategic Computing Initiative, unveiled in July 2015, which calls for public-private partnerships to increase industrial adoption of high-performance computing. Earlier post.)

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MAY 5, 2022

The Clarios Meadowbrook plant was built as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) program signed into law by President Obama and has produced automotive lithium-ion cells for the past decade.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 4, 2008

Today Barak Obama appeared on Meet the Press. Tags: barak obama Plug-in Hybrids battery electric car. full transcript here.) MR. RUSSERT: How long before our automobiles are off of gasoline oil and, and using something like an alternative fuel? And the technologies exist right now for plug-in hybrids.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Obama's choice for Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, apparently can't be faulted for his dedication to dealing with climate change. Industry and universities have been feeding at the trough, but actual contributions to reducing global warming or petroleum dependence have been less than negligible.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2009

President Barack Obama announced that he intends to nominate Dr. Paul T. Among other benefits, his research has created economic incentives to reduce industrial waste. Anastas to head the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development in the post of Assistant Administrator.

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MARCH 31, 2010

The Obama Administration will expand oil and gas development and exploration on the US Outer Continental Shelf, while protecting fisheries, tourism, and places off US coasts that it says are not appropriate for development. President Obama is withdrawing Bristol Bay from consideration for oil and gas development through 2017.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

In addition, Dieter Zetsche, former Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG and Head of Mercedes-Benz; Mark Fields, former Ford Motor Company CEO; and Harry Wilson, former senior advisor to the Obama Administration’s Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry, are members of Factorial’s advisory board.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

In collaboration with the Administration, 46 industry members signed on to the following Guiding Principles to Promote Electric Vehicles and Charging Infrastructure. This commitment signifies the beginning of a collaboration between the government and industry to increase the deployment of electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2016

The pilot programs, funded via the President’s FY17 budget proposal, would test connected vehicle systems in designated corridors throughout the country, and work with industry leaders to ensure a common multistate framework for connected and autonomous vehicles. —NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2012

President Obama used his last State-of-the-Union (SOTU) address of his term to outline four main elements of a blueprint for an “ economy that’s built to last: an economy built on American manufacturing, American energy, skills for American workers, and a renewal of American values. ”. —President Obama.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Addressing input from industries based on their experience working with the laboratories, ACT authorizes: A more flexible framework for negotiation of intellectual property (IP) rights to facilitate getting technology from the laboratory to the marketplace.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

At a meeting with a bipartisan group of governors from around the country, President Barack Obama yesterday laid out three measures intended to work in concert to boost biofuels production and reduce US dependence on petroleum. President Obama. Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2). Earlier post.) Regulatory compliance – EPA and USDA.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2009

US President Barack Obama has established a Biofuels Interagency Working Group, to be co-chaired by the Secretaries of Agriculture and Energy and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to further the research, development and commercialization of biofuels. This is a very aggressive directive from the President.”

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2011

The WardsAuto, DuPont survey was conducted just before the Obama administration’s originally proposed 2025 fleet average of 56.2 Clearly CAFE regulations have confronted the industry, but they’ve also driven focus around technology needs, material demands and cost issues. L/100 km) was negotiated to 54.5

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Teslarati

APRIL 15, 2024

Patel also highlighted that Tesla’s Policy and Business Development team is one of the best in the industry. Lucky to have been a part of Barack Obama’s campaign/administration, and truly honored to have worked at Tesla to positively changing multiple industries.

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AUGUST 20, 2020

Under the framework agreements, gasoline and diesel cars and light trucks will get cleaner through 2026 at about the same rate as the former Obama-era program.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2009

The US auto industry, via the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, is lining up to support a new national, harmonized program to reduce carbon emissions and fuel consumption that President Obama will announce on Tuesday, 19 May. This approach allows for a range of sizes of vehicles to meet consumer needs for passenger and cargo room.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 25, 2011

As part of a national effort to bring together industry, universities and the federal government, US President Barack Obama has announced the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2010

President Obama announced the award of $2.3 Porocel Industries, LLC. Porocel Industries, LLC will construct and operate a plant for drying, grinding, calcining, and packaging process steps for the production of intermediate material used in the production of Conoco Phillips’ CPreme Anode. Aerovironment, Inc.

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