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Green Car Congress
MAY 27, 2022
Rice University chemists working with researchers at the Ford Motor Company are turning plastic parts from end-of-life vehicles into graphene via the university’s flash Joule heating process ( earlier post ). Ford sent us 10 pounds of mixed plastic waste from a vehicle shredding facility. That’s with only 0.1% Wyss et al.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 23, 2009
A new report released by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute ( UMTRI ) analyzes critical choices faced by automakers and finds that broad, deep, fast change is necessary for success in the context of the worst financial crisis in the history of the domestic automobile industry. points and Ford down 5.4
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 4, 2011
A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized.
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 13, 2022
From the outside, there is little to tell a basic Ford XL ICE. F-150 from the electric Ford PRO F-150 Lightning. But when you pop the Lightning’s hood, you find the internal combustion engine has gone missing. The Lightning’s software suite may even be larger than its ICE counterpart (Ford will not confirm this).
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 5, 2009
Industry officials expect that this $2.4 billion in cost-share from the award winners, will result directly in the creation tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the US battery and auto industries. Companies and universities in Michigan are receiving more than $1 billion of the grants. Honeywell International Inc.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 17, 2023
Ford, for example, recently cut 3,000 highly-paid salaried and contract workers as a down payment to help fund the transition to EVs. Ford CEO Jim Farley has said , employee cuts are necessary as Ford has “too many places in some places, no doubt about it. Ford is not alone. million jobs” in the Japanese auto industry.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
The way cars are used here, the ways in which cars interact with the environment, the way in which human beings reside in urban centers in China are profoundly going to seed the development of the auto industry in every other part of the world. Private sector. Pure electric passenger car. Zhixin Wu. A perspective on the US.
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