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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). The biorefinery will convert the process waste effluent from the plant into cellulosic ethanol, sodium acetate and clean, warm water.

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APRIL 10, 2009

A new wind turbine assembly plant opening later this year in Novi, Michigan will create about 250 manufacturing jobs which are being sought by displaced autoworkers.The company received $7.3 million in tax credits from the Michigan Economic Growth Authority in December to create 256 direct jobs over six years. The Detroit News.

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Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. (The maximum—136,468 million gallons—was reached in 2014.). Total consumption (millions of gallons). Total consumption (millions of gallons).

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AUGUST 13, 2010

Ford, Detroit Edison and Xtreme Power are teaming up to establish one of Michigan’s largest solar power generation systems and electric vehicle charging stations at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich. Ford will work with Detroit Edison to install a 500 kW solar photovoltaic panel system at Michigan Assembly.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

A modest increase between 2004 and 2008 (from 19.6 A minor increase between 2008 and 2017 (from 21.8 In comparison, the change between 2008 and 2017 (from 4.59 Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Established in 2008, JJE is an electrified propulsion leader in components, assemblies and systems for global automotive and commercial vehicle customers. Headquartered in Beijing, China, JJE has technical centers and production facilities in the United States and China including Michigan, Shandong, and Shanghai.

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MAY 4, 2011

Air Products has signed a contract with Sorensen Gross Construction Services to build a hydrogen fueling station in Flint, Michigan to fuel a hydrogen fuel cell bus owned by Flint’s Mass Transportation Authority (MTA). The station, which will be part of the MTA’s alternative fuels test program, is to be onstream in April 2012.

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JANUARY 6, 2020

The previous study compared data for 1983 (as the baseline) with those for 2008, 2011, 2014, and 2017. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan.

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APRIL 14, 2009

The Michigan Economic Growth Authority (MEGA) Board awarded $543.5 Today marks a defining moment for Michigan's future as we see a new industry begin to take root and grow new jobs. Michigan Governor Jennifer M. The Michigan Economic Growth Authority (MEGA) board approved a state tax credit valued at $48.5

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JANUARY 19, 2016

An analysis by Dr. Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) has found recent decreases in the proportion of persons with a driver’s license across all age groups in the US. The percentages for 1983, 2008, 2011, and 2014 were 55.0%, 78.4%, 79.2%, and 79.0%, respectively.

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MAY 30, 2018

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that in the United States from 2008 to 2017, crude oil represented only 61% of the retail price of gasoline. The 10-year period covered was from April 24, 2008 through April 23, 2018. During the examined 10-year period, crude-oil prices peaked on July 3, 2008 at $145.31/barrel,

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JANUARY 9, 2014

mpg from the revised value in November, according to the latest monthly figures from Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). mpg from 2008. The average fuel economy (window-sticker value) of new vehicles sold in the US in December was 24.8 l/100 km), down 0.2

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FEBRUARY 2, 2019

In a 2011 article , Brandon Schoettle and I showed that the proportion of young Americans aged 16 to 39 years with a driver’s license decreased substantially from 1983 to 2008. (In Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

mpg between model years 2008 and 2014, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) researchers Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle have documented sales-weighted distributions for the same model year vehicles (cars, pickup trucks, vans and SUVs). In 2008, the corresponding figures were 15% and 5%, respectively.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

A newly released University of Michigan study found widespread consumer interest in buying plug-in hybrid electric vehicles; however, the cost of the cars is much more influential than environmental and other non-economic factors as a predictor of purchase probabilities. Source: Curtin et al. 2009) Click to enlarge. Source: Curtin et al.

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OCTOBER 17, 2013

Livonia Transmission Plant (Michigan). Romeo Engine Plant (Michigan). Van Dyke Transmission Plant (Michigan). Plants that have switched to the MQL process include: Changan Ford Engine Plant (China). Craiova Engine Plant (Romania). Cologne Engine Plant (Germany). Silverson, S., and Furness, R. Sebastian, A., Klosinski, R.,

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FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Graphex also recently announced plans to construct a CSG production facility in Michigan. Graphex entered into an exclusive non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) to form a joint venture with Michigan-based Emerald Energy Solutions for constructing and operating a graphite processing facility.

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OCTOBER 22, 2014

In the three years since the new CAFE standard for fuel economy has been in effect, automakers have surpassed it each year, improving new-vehicle fuel economy by about a mile per gallon annually, according to an analysis by Brandon Schoettle and Dr. Michael Sivak of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI).

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DECEMBER 7, 2011

California and Michigan rank first in total EV technology patents in the US, each generating 300 patents between 2008-2010. Battery patents dominate California EV patents (86% of all patents are for battery technology, from 2008-2010). California’s EV industry increased from 740 jobs in 1995 to 1,790 in January 2010.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

million (2008-2012). MBI is a Lansing, Michigan-based not-for-profit company with 30 years of experience in accelerating the commercialization of bio-based technologies. MBI is affiliated with Michigan State University, and is a member of the MSU BioEconomy Network. times better than Novozymes’ previous version Cellic CTec2.

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JANUARY 16, 2021

Region 5 (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin) will accept applications requesting up to $3,000,000 in grant funds. Since the first year of the DERA program in 2008, EPA has competitively awarded more than 850 grants and 450 rebates across the country. Background.

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JULY 24, 2012

The University of Michigan Solar Car Team won the 2012 American Solar Challenge (ASC) with its car Quantum, snagging a fourth consecutive ASC title, and also breaking the record the team set in 2008. Major sponsors of the U-M Solar Car team include IMRA America, Michigan Engineering, Ford Motor and General Motors.

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JUNE 20, 2013

As a result, Sivak concludes, it is likely that the declines in these rates prior to 2008 reflect other societal changes that influence the need for vehicles (such as, increases in telecommuting and in the use of public transportation). million in 2008. The number reached a maximum of 236.4 —Michael Sivak. In 1984 there were 0.66

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

mpg from December, according to figures from the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). All vehicles purchased from October 2007 through September 2008 were assumed to be model year 2008. The average fuel economy of new vehicles sold in the US. in January was 23.0 mpg US (10.2 of vehicles purchased.

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MAY 8, 2009

Michigan Business Review. Sakti3, the Michigan Li-ion manufacturing battery startup headed by Dr. Ann Marie Sastry ( earlier post ) will pursue loans to accelerate its commercialization plans from the US Department of Energy’s $2 billion Electric Drive Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative, funded through the Recovery Act.

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Ford’s margin for victory will be a little leaner and hinge primarily on the results of UAW Local 600, representing workers at the Dearborn Truck Plant in Michigan and several part facilities. Contracts likewise restore cost-of-living adjustments and retirement benefits lost by the union after 2008.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

Since the first year of the DERA program in 2008, EPA has competitively awarded more than 790 grants and 420 rebates across the country. Region 5 (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin) will accept proposals requesting up to $3,000,000 in grant funds. Background.

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MAY 27, 2009

Shown is an example of graphite from Maire (2008). Researchers from General Motors R&D Center and the University of Michigan are developing a method for the direct in situ measurement of lithium ion (Li + ) transport rates in a functioning Li-ion cell. Click to enlarge. Electrochem. Volume 155, Issue 11 doi: 10.1149/1.2979696.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

USDA, through its Rural Development Biorefinery Assistance Program (Section 9003 of the 2008 Farm Bill), approved an 80% loan guarantee to finance the project, with a conditional commitment that Fulcrum Sierra BioFuels, LLC must meet before loan closing.

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

The sixth in a series of reports on peak motorization in the US by Dr. Michael Sivak at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) finds that distance driven per GDP reached its highest values in a broad plateau from the early 1970s through the early 1990s, and then decreased steadily.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

In the summer of 2008, amid staggering gas prices, Central Michigan University (CMU) invested $23,000 into an electric vehicle. Just over a year later, the school is requesting a refund, citing the vehicle's poor performance in cold weather.

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OCTOBER 20, 2015

Much of the Nostrum development work is being carried out at Michigan Technical University, but Nostrum also has contracts with two engine research companies: Ricardo and Mahle. Both are running the Nostrum cycle on commercial engines they have retrofitted. Both are running the Nostrum cycle on commercial engines they have retrofitted.

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JULY 30, 2010

The Detroit-Hamtramck plant received $336 million in new investment to prepare for production of the Volt, part of more than $700 million GM has invested in eight Michigan facilities to support Volt production since 2008.

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

Average monthly and model year fleet-wide achieved CAFE performance levels (light purple) versus NHTSA projected achieved CAFE levels (blue) for model years 2008 through 2016. Additionally, they found, achieved CAFE performance has consistently increased annually from model year 2008 through model year 2013. Schoettle and Sivak 2013.

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JANUARY 24, 2022

For comparison, Toyota’s plant in Georgetown, Kentucky built 8,427 cars per week, BMW’s facility in South Carolina managed 8,343 units per week, and Ford’s Dearborn, Michigan hub managed just 5,564 vehicles weekly. All figures were provided by Bloomberg.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Based in Troy (Michigan, USA), EMCON posted 2008 sales of €2.4 billion), based on 2008 figures. of 2008 combined sales (excluding monoliths). EMCON serves worldwide passenger car, commercial vehicle and engine manufacturers. billion (US$3.5 billion) and employs 6,000 people in 19 countries. billion (US$7.7

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MARCH 28, 2015

In November 2008, Michigan-based MTU reported to ARB and US EPA irregularities that occurred during durability testing on specific engine varieties.

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