More than two million automobiles and light trucks built in model years 2010 to 2014 will be equipped with Tenneco’s emission control technology. The components include catalytic converters, diesel particulate filters, diesel oxidation catalysts and selective catalytic reduction units. Tenneco’s diesel oxidation catalysts can reduce up to 90% of hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide emissions and its diesel particulate filters can reduce particulate matter emissions by up to 95 percent.

Engineering for the DOE-funded products and systems will be performed at the company’s advanced engineering center in Michigan, which employs more than 300 scientists and other employees, and manufactured at Tenneco facilities in Michigan, Indiana and Nebraska, which employ more than 1,500 workers.

The Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program is an open process designed to promote the development of fuel efficient advanced technology vehicles. First appropriated in the fall of 2008, the program provides loans to companies making cars and components in US factories that increase fuel economy at least 25% above 2005 fuel economy levels.

The preceding four conditional loan commitments are:

• $5.9 billion for Ford Motor Company;
• $1.6 billion to Nissan North America;
• $465 million to Tesla Motors; and
• $528.7 million to Fisker Automotive.