Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

Like the Recovery Act-funded projects, the annual Clean Cities projects include grants for vehicles, infrastructure, and education. State of Indiana’s: Central Indiana Clean Cities Alliance Comprehensive Alternative Fuels Implementation Plan. Last week, the Department of Energy also announced that. Total DOE award: $11,041,500.

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Alternative Fuels Clean Cleaning Grant 236

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2010

By designing and manufacturing electric motors in-house, we can more efficiently use energy from batteries as they evolve, potentially reducing cost and weight—two significant challenges facing batteries today. Initially, GM is committing to building all the motors for the next-generation two-mode transmission.

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GM Motor Motors Motoring 246

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Ford Motor Company will now partner with Azure Dynamics Corporation to deliver a pure battery electric Ford Transit Connect van for the United States and Canadian markets in 2010. Azure Dynamics has selected Johnson Controls-Saft as the supplier for lithium-ion battery cells and battery packs for the Transit Connect BEV.

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Transit Connect Ford Connect Connected 220

Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 4, 2022

I talked about different types of electric motors, batteries, and electrical systems.” The university also granted special permission to non-students to attend the EV class, including a city manager from a small town in Eastern Nebraska. “I We studied forces that have an impact on EV range, such as aerodynamic drag,” he explained. “I

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Nebraska Omaha Universal Tesla 77

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

President Obama announced 48 new advanced battery and electric drive projects that will receive $2.4 The announcement marks the single largest investment in advanced battery technology for hybrid and electric-drive vehicles ever made. Companies and universities in Michigan are receiving more than $1 billion of the grants.

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Grant Lithium Ion Obama St. Louis 317

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Transit agencies began submitting their proposals after the FTA announced rules for the Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) grant program as part of the Recovery Act last March. Since President Obama signed ARRA into law in February, grants totaling more than $7.2 The DOT is making $48.1

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Emissions Gas Energy Maintenance 256

Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 27, 2009

This new company, Bright Automotive , is founded by ex-GM EV1 people, and the super efficient Rocky Mountain Institute to make plug-in hybrids in Indiana. 195, Bright will be building cars that “do more with less&# , a philosophy MacCready was famous for (and the title of a wonderful biography on him). by: Michael Kanellos.

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Plug-in Bright Automotive Plug Cars 124

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2010

million in building improvements and equipment in Elkhart County, and the plant could begin assembling vehicles in early 2011. It is the first EV to be granted certification with the European CE conformity mark and EU homologation requirements (M1 certificate). The company plans to invest $43.5 Earlier post.).

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Think City Indiana Indianapolis Porsche 199

Cars That Think

APRIL 29, 2023

Given the mix of cutting-edge scientific computing and old-school bravado, it was as though they were channeling Alan Turing and Indiana Jones simultaneously. Our goal is to develop ways to discover major new deposits of vital metals needed for electric vehicle (EV) batteries—for which there is an enormous and growing need.

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Batteries Battery Climate Change United States 68