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JULY 24, 2019

BMW Group Plant Spartanburg in South Carolina has doubled its capacity for production of high-voltage batteries. BMW Group has produced batteries on site at Plant Spartanburg since 2015, said Knudt Flor, President and CEO, BMW Manufacturing, Co., The plant’s own battery facility now produces the new fourth-generation batteries.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

million riders annually in three Upstate South Carolina counties, including the cities of Clemson and Seneca and the towns of Central and Pendleton as well as four universities, the fare-free CATbus system will have the largest zero-emission fleet in the Carolinas. that are operated by CATbus.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In 2015, the company admitted to cheating on emissions standards through the use of its “clean diesel” products , and it later paid out over $9.5 The German automaker also has plans to build a $2 billion BEV factory in South Carolina, which is expected to begin production in 2026. billion in settlement money to vehicle owners.

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JUNE 20, 2023

To put the scale of the lithium challenge into context, more lithium will be needed in 2030 than was mined between 2015 and 2022, according to Benchmark’s Lithium Forecast. Its equivalently sized facility in South Carolina is projected to cost $1.3 Refined nickel, too, will pose a challenge.

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JANUARY 8, 2016

Volvo Cars sold 503,127 cars worldwide in 2015, the first time it has sold more than half a million cars in its 89-year history. to 70,047 units in 2015. to 70,047 units in 2015. It is also an endorsement of the company’s new product strategy, with global sales boosted in the later stages of 2015 by the new XC90 SUV.

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JANUARY 24, 2017

This latest expansion builds on the 120 dual-port DC Fast chargers that BMW and Nissan announced together in December 2015. EVgo’s fast charging network now totals 668 dual-port DC Fast charging stations installed and available to all EV drivers across the United States. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 14, 2017

The four projects advancing to phase 2 were chosen from phase 1 awards made under the FOA Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) Innovative Concepts and Core Technology Research Program, which was issued in fiscal year 2015. DOE Funding: $600,000.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

In May 2015, NHTSA announced that it was taking the unprecedented step of coordinating a four-year plan of “just-in-time” recalls to replace nearly 69 million defective Takata airbags by 2019. The analysis, conducted by Quality Control Systems Corp.

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MAY 30, 2013

Tesla’s vision of the Supercharger network in 2015. Click to enlarge. Tesla Motors announced an accelerated rollout of its Tesla Supercharger network, which delivers quick charging for Tesla Model S drivers over long distances (i.e., city-to-city travel), for free.

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APRIL 28, 2015

BMW Manufacturing earned a 2003 Green Power Leadership Award for using landfill gas to generate a portion of the power needed to operate its Spartanburg, South Carolina manufacturing facility. For the reporting period from 1 March 2014 - 1 March 2015, GM Fort Wayne generated and used 53,260,800 kWh of green power.

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MARCH 20, 2015

At its Annual Account Press Conference 2015, the BMW Group announced that, for the first time in the history of the Group, 51% of its electricity worldwide is being supplied from renewable sources. At the Spartanburg plant in South Carolina, a methane gas system provides around 50% of the energy required for production.

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JULY 14, 2016

which began offering rooted cutting seedlings of the new varieties in 2015. This important step came after ArborGen’s extensive field testing of the trees produced from tissue cultures in Merkle's lab in Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama. The new hybrid varieties are already being sold commercially by ArborGen Inc.,

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

According to industry estimates, the US electric power industry will have to replace nearly 100,000 workers—more than 25,000 of them in the nuclear industry—by 2015. In the next few years, about 30% of nuclear energy industry workers, many of whom joined the field in the 1960s and 1970s, will be eligible for retirement.

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DECEMBER 18, 2012

Overall, Pike Research expects sales of PEVs to grow steadily until 2015, followed by accelerating sales from 2015 through 2020 to reach nearly 1.7 Evatran plans to have over twenty installations as part of the Apollo Trial Program. In the nearer term, by 2014, success will be measured at 5% or 6% of that market. million by 2020.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

The Annual Highway Report finds states disbursed about $139 billion for state-controlled highways and arterials in 2016, a 4% decrease from approximately $145 billion spent in 2015. Massachusetts ranks low in the overall rankings but shows the nation’s lowest traffic fatality rate, while South Carolina reports the highest.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 2, 2023

The company’s plant in South Carolina (which builds the S60) is also presently being converted to focus on battery-powered SUVs intended for Volvo and Polestar. Volvo sold 64,921 vehicles in the United States in 2015 and managed to move 123,424 units by the end of 2021. The first models are due to arrive next year.

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MAY 15, 2015

Approximately 108 million tons of coal ash are currently held in coal ash basins owned and operated by the defendants in North Carolina. Duke Energy Corporation subsidiaries also operate facilities with coal ash basins in South Carolina (approximately 5.99 million tons of coal ash); Kentucky (approximately 1.5

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As the luxury division of the Hyundai Group (Genesis, Hyundai and Kia) it has gone from two models in 2015 to eight in 2023. In this time Genesis went from being a model in the Hyundai line-up to becoming a car company on its own.

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DECEMBER 20, 2013

Several major automakers, including Honda, Toyota, and Hyundai, are committed to producing commercial quantities in the 2015-2017 timeframe and reaffirmed those commitments in 2012. Light duty vehicles. Several other automakers say they will not be far behind. Earlier post.). States of the States, Fuel Cells in America 2013.

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AUGUST 26, 2015

Modern Transportation signed a new fuel agreement that will expand an existing partnership with over 20 CNG and LNG trucks which are being deployed in Florida, South Carolina, Texas and Colorado. The new trucks are expected to consume in excess of 400,000 DGEs of fuel a year.

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MAY 12, 2015

Linde currently is operating hydrogen stations also for fuel cell forklifts, notably for the BMW South Carolina plant, where they are dispensing hydrogen—around the clock—at the rate of 700kg/day. Many markets will have 50 stations (Germany, US, and Japan) by the end of 2015 and 100s by 2020.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 30, 2022

In 2015, the Strong National Museum of Play , in Rochester, N.Y., My University of South Carolina colleague James Risk grew up in Mooresville, Indiana, a small town southwest of Indianapolis. inducted Pong into its World Video Game Hall of Fame , citing its popularity and influence in launching the video-game industry.

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JULY 14, 2015

In Fiscal Year (FY) 2015, NETL issued two funding opportunities announcements (FOAs) to support programs that enable the development and deployment of this energy technology. The University of South Carolina. The projects selected under the two FOAs will receive funding through NETL’s Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Program.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

In addition, the company’s 2016 sales awards more than doubled from 2015. Proterra aims to increase production in its East Coast facility, located in Greenville, South Carolina, by 300% and initiate production in its City of Industry facility in Los Angeles County. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

South Carolina Department of Transportation. The Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, passed by Congress and signed into law in December 2015, authorizes FTA’s Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Program, which includes the Low or No Emission Grants Program, through FY 2020.

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MAY 5, 2021

Arrival was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with more than 1,800 global employees located in offices across the United States, Germany, Netherlands, Israel, Russia, and Luxembourg. The company is deploying its first three Microfactories in North and South Carolina, US and Bicester, UK in 2021.

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MARCH 21, 2017

Mercedes-Benz Vans announced its plans to extend its existing assembly location for vans and build a new factory for the production of the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter in North Charleston in South Carolina (USA) back in 2015. Production is due to start before the end of the decade.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

The work was done by Wheeldon, Cory Schwartz, a graduate student in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at UCR, and Murtaza Shabbir Hussain and Mark Blenner from Clemson University in South Carolina. The research was supported by the National Science Foundation. 5b00162.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

In 2015, he wrote a winning proposal to ARPA-E’s NODES program —that’s the U.S. A Real-Time Demo of Load Coordination” shows how PEM coordinated the load from 208 residential water heaters in Vermont and South Carolina over a typical 2-hour period. Our projects have yielded some promising results. “A

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Built in 2015, the Anahola station is old enough that its batteries have reached their end of life. The 600-acre campus will be one of the biggest economic-development projects in the history of South Carolina. The vast majority of batteries are nowhere near end of life yet. They’re not ready for recycling.”

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