Cars That Think

AUGUST 30, 2022

He visited 15 automobile factories and 20 other manufacturers, trying to assess the industrial needs for a robotic arm. General Motors was the first company to bite. On a fateful day in 1961, the Unimate pictured at top took its place on the assembly line of General Motors’ Ternstedt plant, in Trenton, N.J.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 26, 2023

Meanwhile, China’s state-owned Guangzhou Automobile Group Company (GAC) has announced it had developed an engine powered by ammonia with help from Toyota Motor Corporation during its annual technology showcase. after overtaking General Motors Co.’s s joint venture with SAIC Motor Corp. and Wuling Motors Holdings.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2011

General Motors and Teijin Limited., In November, Teijin announced it would establish the first pilot plant for fully integrated production of CFRTP components from carbon fiber on the premises of its Matsuyama Factory in Ehime Prefecture, Japan. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Honda will begin sales in Japan of the Clarity Fuel Cell in March 2016. The next-generation fuel cell system which is being developed jointly with General Motors will move on to the next stage that includes production and purchasing, aiming at a product launch around 2020.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Honda has shown off the exterior and interior of the Prologue electric SUV, the first EV that will spring from its joint venture with General Motors. Honda already has the funky e on sale in Europe and Japan and the e:NP1 and e:NS1 in China , but the Prologue will be the first EV it will sell in North America.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2016

Sumitomo, which is strengthening its automobile business and expects growth in the fuel cell market, plans to supply mostly Japanese commercial vehicle makers, according to the report. to license its FlowCath platinum-free liquid cathode technology for proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuels cells in Japan. earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Leading vehicle manufacturers in fuel cell technology—Daimler AG, Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corporation/Opel, Honda Motor Co.,

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Driivz

AUGUST 1, 2023

SAE International (Society of Automotive Engineers) and the European Automobile Manufacturing Association (ACEA) proposed the Combined Charging System (CCS) standard in 2011. CHAdeMO was the original DC rapid-charging standard and is still in use in Japan and by the Nissan Leaf and a handful of other models. When was CCS developed?

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For several years, the automobile industry has grappled with a straightforward question: Is it possible to produce a powerful, efficient, and mass-producible synchronous motor that contains no rare-earth elements at all? For iron nitride, the authors gave a κ value of 0.53.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

In their study, they used three different alternative powertrain/fuel models: less aggressive, moderately aggressive and very aggressive, applied across four developed economies (United States, Western Europe, Japan, and South Korea) and four developing economies (Brazil, Russia, India, and China). Source: Belzowski and McManus. South Korea.

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Get Electric Vehicle

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

According to Nikkei Asia, the new electric vehicles will include music and other networking functions, in addition to improved driving performance and safety The electric vehicles will then be available in Japan in 2026, followed by Europe. Honda, like its larger rival Toyota Motor, has been hesitant to transition to an electric fleet.

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Plug In Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2007

GS Yuasa Corporation , Mitsubishi Corporation, and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation announced that, effective December 12, they have formed the joint venture company " Lithium Energy Japan " to produce large capacity and high performance lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2009

During the SAE 2009 World Congress in Detroit, Gary Kissel of General Motors presented an update of hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and electric vehicle standards being revised or developed by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Hybrid Standards Committee. by Jack Rosebro. Active standards work. Click to enlarge. of SAE efforts.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2010

The European automobile manufacturers have agreed to a first phase of joint specifications to connect electrically chargeable vehicles to the electricity grid in a safe and user-friendly way. Ivan Hodac, Secretary-General of ACEA, the automobile industry’s trade association in Brussels.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2013

WAND: US/Japan Wide-Angle Neutron Diffractometer. Hassina Bilheux, a physicist and the lead for developing ORNL’s neutron imaging capabilities (and gracious tour guide for GCC at the SNS facility), has used cold neutrons at HFIR''s CG-1D beam line to image automobile engine system components. Powder: Neutron Powder Diffractometer.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform. The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." 10/31/07 [General Motors Corp. Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna. Then Ill pack it in around 80."

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Though China is clearly way behind the US and Japan in terms of producing petrol powered cars, it hopes to get a jump start on the opposition by skipping this technology and focusing on electrics. Its goal was to be one of the top producers of green cars within three years and a world leader in both electric cars and buses after that.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Wang entered the automobile business in 2003 by buying a Chinese state-owned car company that was all but defunct. "Importing batteries from Japan was very expensive," Wang says. "If we put our staff in Japan or the U.S., He knew very little about making cars but proved to be a quick study.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 21, 2022

It’s one of the great stories of corporate intrigue: General Motors in the US and Sumitomo in Japan independently conceived the technology, and then worked in secret, racing to commercialize the technology, and without even being aware of the other’s efforts. Today, some 95 percent of permanent magnets are neodymium-iron-boron.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Hawley has correctly identified that there’s been an influx of Chinese-made automobiles onto Western nations of late. Chinese automakers have signaled a desire to tackle the American market, in a manner similar to South Korea and Japan, for years. auto sector," the Alliance for American Manufacturing said in a report.

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