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Ford to import next-gen Ford Focus for N. America from China; production starting 2H 2019

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Production of the next-generation Focus begins in the second half of 2019, with models coming from the company’s existing Focus plants globally. Ford also announced a $900-million investment in Kentucky Truck Plant for plant upgrades to build the all-new Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator, which begin arriving in dealerships this fall.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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DOE received more than 160 applications for 2019 TCF funding, with project teams engaging more than 90 different partners across multiple diverse disciplines. Louisville, Colo. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Tustin, Calif. Louis , Mo. San Jose, Calif. Vitriflex Inc.,

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Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

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Deep below the Louisville, Ky., During the Tunnel Circuit event, which took place in August 2019 in the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s experimental coal mine, on the outskirts of Pittsburgh, many teams lost communication with their robots after the first bend in the tunnel. The caverns are dark. They’re dusty.

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UAW crash with Detroit 3 displays a extra confrontational union as collision time limit looms

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Talking extreme era to Ford employees at a plant in Louisville, Kentucky, Fain complained about one usual for the company category and some other for familiar employees. All over a 40-day UAW collision in 2019, GM unwanted misplaced $3.6 The CEOs of all 3 main automakers earn a couple of tens of millions in annual reimbursement.

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