Cars That Think

MAY 13, 2023

Universities and community colleges are revamping their semiconductor-related curricula and forging strategic partnerships with one another and with industry to train the staff needed to run U.S. Intel arrives at Ohio State Ohio State University is using its chip-fabrication facility to train future engineers and technicians.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas are home to a quarter of the US population and consume 30% of electric power generated in the US. Hydrogen can be used as an effective storage medium to increase utilization of these renewable energy resources.

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Teslarati

MAY 23, 2022

The Tesla Cybertruck made its most recent public appearance this past weekend at the Michigan Formula SAE competition at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan. The 2022 Formula SAE competition at Michigan took place from the 18 to the 21 of May.

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AUGUST 13, 2017

Michigan State University researchers are experimenting with harvesting seed oil to make biofuels. The left-over lipid products are transported to the endoplasmic reticulum, where they eventually turn into seed oil. Previously, it was thought that seed oil production is largely based in the endoplasmic reticulum.

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OCTOBER 12, 2019

The US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and The University of Toledo have entered into a memorandum of understanding for collaborative research into the advanced design and manufacturing of high-strength, intelligent, lightweight materials for use by the automotive sector.

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AUGUST 3, 2012

GE researchers, in partnership with Ford Motor Company and the University of Michigan, are developing a smart, miniaturized sensing system that has the potential to significantly extend the life of automotive traction batteries over the conventional battery systems used in electric vehicles today. Earlier post.)

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MARCH 8, 2022

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) will collaborate with the University of Michigan (UM) to use additive manufacturing and machine learning to create an advanced burner that will eliminate 99.5% of the methane encountered during oil production. of the methane in gas flares used by the oil and gas industry.

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Teslarati

JUNE 20, 2022

Tesla’s updated Cybertruck and Semi prototypes recently made a rather rare appearance at the Michigan International Speedway. The updated Cybertruck prototype also made an appearance at the Michigan International Speedway last month. Based on Tesla’s Instagram page , it appears that another round of races was held this past week.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Ford is the first automaker to test autonomous vehicles at Mcity—the full-scale simulated real-world urban environment at the University of Michigan. The 32-acre facility is part of the university’s Mobility Transformation Center. Earlier post.) Earlier post.). Wolcott and Ryan M.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 21, 2016

Other than charging a battery-electric car using electricity harvested by photovoltaic panels, solar power isn't exactly practical for current production cars. a team of students from the University of Michigan beat 23. In the U.S.,

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MARCH 17, 2021

The University of Michigan and Ford Motor Company are opening a new advanced robotics facility. The fourth floor houses Ford’s first robotics and mobility research lab on a university campus, as well as 100 Ford researchers—including autonomous vehicle researchers—and engineers.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Researchers at the University of Michigan have mapped the annual flow of steel in the US, with the goal of achieving a detailed understanding of the flow to target increased material efficiency and the development of the circular economy. the blast furnace) and major products used and created by industry (e.g.,

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AUGUST 15, 2013

Ford will expand its collaboration with Australian universities as part of a commitment to developing a world-class system of external alliances, programs and practices in Australia and Asia. The company has appointed senior Ford Technical Engineer, Richard Taube, as Ford Australia’s Manager for University Programs.

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MARCH 18, 2023

Each of the four centers, led by a National Laboratory or University, support the science behind a bio-based economy and aims to break down the barriers to building a strong domestic bioenergy industry.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Advanced Separation and Processing Technologies for Enhanced Product Recovery and Improved Water Utilization, Cost Reduction, and Environmental Impact of an Integrated Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling System. Michigan Technological University. Tennessee Technological University. The University of Alabama. 10,000,000.

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OCTOBER 1, 2015

A new $1-million relationship between Michigan State University and ExxonMobil will expand research designed to progress the fundamental science required to advance algae-based fuels. There is a need to improve photosynthesis under simulated production environments.

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Michigan Oil Environment Fuel 150

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MARCH 26, 2019

In this analysis, I examined the relation between crude-oil production and crude-oil reserves in the world and in the United States. This variable is inversely related to the reserves-to-production ratio.) For the world, production of crude oil in 1987 represented 3.0% The results are shown in the table below.

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

New research led by the University of Michigan shows that in the real world, this practice is far less effective than estimated, releasing five times more methane in the US than previously thought. Methane—which can be a byproduct of oil production—is a powerful greenhouse gas.

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JANUARY 4, 2016

Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed an le air-stable amide-derived N,N,N-Ru(II) complex to catalyze the conversion of ethanol to 1-butanol with high selectivity. The researchers report that conversion to upgraded products exceeds 250 turnovers per hour (>50% conversion) with 0.1

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DECEMBER 15, 2012

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced $10 million in research grants to spur production of biofuels, bioenergy and biobased products that will lead to the development of sustainable regional systems and help create jobs. Vilsack highlighted the announcement with a visit to Michigan State University, a grant awardee.

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JANUARY 9, 2015

IACMI is dedicated to overcoming these barriers by developing low-cost, high-production, energy-efficient manufacturing and recycling processes for composites applications. Thogus Products Company; Toray Composites (America), Inc.; Thogus Products Company; Toray Composites (America), Inc.; Adherent Technologies, Inc.;

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

After leaving GM in 2009, Dr. Burns was a Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Michigan (2011-2015), and Director of the Program for Sustainable Mobility at Columbia University (2010-2014). in Mechanical Engineering from General Motors Institute (now Kettering University), an M.S. He received a B.S.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

Continental technologies such as ABS, radar and redundant brake system are being used in series production for robo-taxis for first time. This year, Continental’s technology for driverless vehicles will be in production for the first time in French company EasyMile’s EZ10 autonomous shuttle.

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OCTOBER 31, 2009

Researchers from Michigan State University have been awarded $2.5 Researchers from Michigan State University have been awarded $2.5 About the size of a large cooking pot, the novel, hyper-efficient engine could replace current engine/generator technologies for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

recently entered into a five-year agreement with Western Michigan University (WMU) to invest in and jointly staff a 1,000-square-foot testing lab to focus on hybrid drive systems for commercial and military vehicles. Eaton Corp.

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AUGUST 20, 2013

A team from the University of Michigan, Michigan State, and UCLA has designed synthetic fungal-bacterial consortia for the direct production of isobutanol from biomass. Dr. James Liao’s lab at the University of California-Los Angeles provided E. show that cooperator–cheater dynamics within T.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements. Columbia University. Harvard University. Earlier post.)The

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AUGUST 29, 2010

American Process Incorporated (API) recently launched a waste-to-cellulosic ethanol biorefinery project in Alpena, Michigan. API is one of Michigan’s bioenergy Centers of Energy Excellence (COEE). Flexibility to swing yield between the two products provides financial stability over the market conditions, according to API.

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MARCH 5, 2022

Researchers at the University of Michigan and Ford Motor Company have conducted a cradle-to-grave life cycle GHG assessment of model year 2020 ICEV, HEV, and BEV sedans, sports utility vehicles (SUVs), and pickup trucks in the United States. years for sedans, 1.4 years for SUVs, and 1.3 Maxwell Woody et al.

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AUGUST 19, 2021

Now, researchers from the University of Michigan and Ford report in an open-access paper in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology that automating residential package transport doesn’t influence the greenhouse gas footprint as much as the delivery van’s size and type. The ICEV results from Stolaroff et al. and Edwards et al.

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Miles Carbon Ford Vehicles 221

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JULY 6, 2017

Researchers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Michigan State University have devised a way to reduce the amount of enzymes needed to convert biomass into biofuels by designing and genetically engineering enzyme surfaces so they bind less to the lignin in biomass. Enzymes cost about $0.50 —Shishir Chundawat.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The project is part of Hyundai’s advanced engine technology strategy and is planned to be used in future production vehicles as both stand-alone (engine only) and hybrid (PHEV, MHEV) configurations. HATCI) was established in 1986 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. HATCI is HMG’s design, technology and engineering division for North America.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

Each combination of enzymes will be tested on pretreated agricultural waste that can first be converted into sugars and then into bio-based products and advanced biofuels. Novozymes has already reduced the cost of enzyme production for biofuels by 90%. The product enables cost-efficient conversion of biomass to ethanol and performs 1.5

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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

More local governments across Michigan see EV charging as a relevant issue, but the number is still fairly low, according to a new University of Michigan survey , and those interested in EV charging see cost as a barrier. Just over a quarter said EV charging isn’t relevant in their jurisdictions, compared to 40% in 2019.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Phil Ansell, an aerospace engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, modeled the life cycle carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of liquid hydrogen production required to meet the fuel needs of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) with today’s electric grid mix.

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APRIL 7, 2016

The University of Michigan is collaborating with IBM to develop and deliver “ data-centric ” supercomputing systems designed to increase the pace of scientific discovery in fields as diverse as aircraft and rocket engine design, cardiovascular disease treatment, materials physics, climate modeling and cosmology.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

President Joe Biden’s plans to visit Michigan in support of the strikes on Tuesday. billion battery manufacturing plant in Michigan, as detailed in a Monday afternoon report from Reuters. As the Detroit Free Press reports, one auto supplier in Wixom, Michigan also announced plans to lay off 230 workers on Monday.

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