Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2020

The projects will feature collaborations with EERE’s Advanced Manufacturing Office on manufacturing reliable and affordable electrolyzers and with EERE’s Vehicle Technologies Office on developing low-cost, high-strength carbon fiber for hydrogen storage tanks. Carbon Composite Optimization Reducing Tank Cost. Proton Energy Systems Inc.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

Diakont’s team members for this program includes project leader Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and LifeLast. The project is to develop a cost-effective and efficient smart structural coating deposition system and advanced high-end technology tools to inspect and rehabilitate gas distribution pipelines.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ford Motor Company will build two new massive, environmentally and technologically advanced campuses in Tennessee and Kentucky that will produce the next generation of electric F-Series trucks and the batteries to power future electric Ford and Lincoln vehicles. An all-new $5.6-billion billion mega-campus in Stanton, Tenn. (a

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2021

GM is targeting annual global EV sales of more than 1 million by 2025, and we are increasing our investment to scale faster because we see momentum building in the United States for electrification, along with customer demand for our product portfolio. Separately, GM will supply HYDROTEC to Navistar, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2023

Ford’s BlueOval City EV and battery manufacturing campus in West Tennessee ( earlier post ) begins production in 2025, will be home to Ford’s second-generation electric truck, code-named Project T3, and will be capable of producing 500,000 EV trucks a year at full production. Ford and partner SK On are investing $5.6

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Charged EVs

MARCH 17, 2023

Tritium is currently revamping its supply chain to make the sleek liquid-cooled DC fast chargers built at its new Tennessee factory compliant with NEVI and Build America regulations. The best companies work closely with their customers to help them choose the most cost-effective hardware for their specific needs.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Separately, Ford today also announced a cash tender offer to repurchase up to $5 billion of the company’s higher-cost debt. Ford was one of the first full-line US automakers to pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its vehicles, operations and supply chain in alignment with goals of the accord.

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Teslarati

MARCH 21, 2022

The China-based battery supplier seems to be leaning towards building a plant in Mexico as it is concerned about the availability of labor in the United States and Canada. CATL’s plans to build a battery plant in North America might be instrumental in avoiding costly trade tariffs while supplying customers, like Tesla, in the west.

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Teslarati

JULY 28, 2021

Redwood’s ultimate goal is to create a “closed-loop supply chain for electric vehicles and energy products, making them truly sustainable and continuing to drive down the costs for batteries,” the company said. Credit: Redwood Materials. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund portfolio manager Joe Fath said. “In

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2022

As Ford creates a new EV supply chain that upholds its commitments to sustainability and human rights, the company continues to plan for more than half its global production to be EVs by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality globally no later than 2050. BHP: For nickel supply from BHP’s Nickel West operations in Australia.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 1, 2023

Q&A with Jon Jacobs of Westwater Resources Everyone in the EV industry is talking about the IRA and the BIL, two sets of federal regulations that include strong incentives for automakers to establish domestic supply chains for EV raw materials and components. Charged : Graphite’s a hot property these days. Tell us about Westwater’s plans.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding more than $7 million to four projects that will help bring cost-effective, advanced hydrogen and fuel cell technologies online faster for both mobile and stationary applications. FedEx Express ($3 million DOE investment): Headquartered in Memphis, Tenn., Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2014

EcoCAR 3 challenges university students across North America to design, build and optimize eco-friendly powertrains over the course of the next four years. Students must also consider cost and explore innovation, while retaining the vehicle’s performance, safety and consumer appeal. University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The United States got the Grand Coulee on the Columbia River, the Hoover Dam on the Colorado, and the dams of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The manufacture of solar panels involves the environmental costs from mining, waste disposal, and carbon emissions. Construction of large dams began before World War II. GW) and Dasu (4.3

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Teslarati

JUNE 16, 2021

GM is targeting annual global EV sales of more than 1 million by 2025, and we are increasing our investment to scale faster because we see momentum building in the United States for electrification, along with customer demand for our product portfolio.”. Separately, GM will supply HYDROTEC to Navistar, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Obama also launched a competition for a new manufacturing innovation institute to build US strength in manufacturing advanced composites, the first of four new competitions to be launched this year. There are significant challenges to integrate this ‘digital thread’ across different manufactured technologies and across the supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Earlier this year, the two partners also signed a three-way agreement with Ford for the joint development of a common fuel cell system to speed up availability of zero-emission technology and significantly reduce investment costs. tons) is supplied to Nissan and the Nissan Atlas F24 light-duty truck (payload 1.5 Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 25, 2021

Just six companies —BYD, CATL, LG Energy Solution, Panasonic, Samsung SDI, and SK Innovation—were responsible for supplying 87 percent of batteries and battery metals in passenger EVs in the second half of 2020. CATL), now the world's largest battery company, supplies LFP packs for Tesla's Model 3 Standard Range. Big Players Dominate.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 10, 2024

With the price cut, the Blazer EV will cost $50,195, or just $42,695 to households who can take advantage of the $7,500 tax credit. That effectively cuts the price of the Leaf, which is made in Tennessee with an American-assembled battery pack, to $25,485 for many households.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2013

The initiative includes private sector partnerships, new funding from the Department, and enhanced analysis of the clean energy manufacturing supply chain that will guide DOE’s future funding decisions. Preliminary estimates suggest a 20-40% reduction in both cradle to grave energy usage and cost compared to current production technologies.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2015

—Markus Schäfer, Member of the Divisional Board Mercedes-Benz Cars, Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management. With respect to transmissions, the plant will focus exclusively on the production of automatic transmissions for rear-wheel drive vehicles while building up additional assembly lines over the next few years.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2010

Assuming an average biorefinery size of 40 million gallons per year, USDA estimates it meeting the RFS2 advanced biofuels goals will mean building of 527 biorefineries, at a cost of $168 billion. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

The Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute will focus on accelerating the development and adoption of advanced sensors, data analytics, and controls in manufacturing, while reducing the cost of these technologies by half and improving the efficiency of US advanced manufacturing. Modular Chemical Process Intensification (MCPI) Institute.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Clean Fleet Report spent a day driving the 2023 Outlander PHEV at a media-only event in Nashville, Tennessee, experiencing highways, country roads, city traffic and some sloppy, muddy driving. Because of this we don’t address issues such as long-term reliability or total cost of ownership. Driving Experience: On- and Off-Road.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Reliable, secure supplies of minerals and software are core elements for EVs, which represent a “shift from a fuel-intensive to a material-intensive energy system,” according to a. EVs require automakers to design new manufacturing processes and build plants to make both EVs and their batteries. Ford and its.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

They have manufacturing space in Tennessee, and they have repurposing programs through their North American headquarters, so we can source, procure and quality-control batteries directly from them. In this market space, to do this requires high labor costs for reintegration. For example, Nissan. One is the economics.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

sunlight through low-cost, plastic light-guiding sheets and then. If successful, the new crop would have a lower cost of. Turbo-POx For Ultra Low-Cost Gasoline. The University of Tennessee will develop a technology that. Earlier post.). reactor makes it more economical both to grow engineered algae. The reactor delivers.

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Push EVs

JULY 21, 2022

Ford will use module-less LFP (LiFePO4) batteries from CATL to cut costs by 10-15 percent starting next year. It also reduces the reliance on scarce critical minerals such as nickel and, at current costs, brings a 10 to 15% bill of material savings for Ford versus NCM batteries. DEARBORN, Mich.,

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Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 23, 2021

The BEVs also lower the system costs of a fully renewable system if the moment of charging is optimally chosen especially when combined with bidirectional charging. In recent years, the low cost of lithium has discouraged the miners from increasing production capacity which has now resulted in a lack of demand accelerates.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

High Performance, Low Cost Superconducting Wires and Coils. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. yield a several-fold reduction in wire costs, making. efficiency at less cost. that substantially reduce costs of the motor. (National Renewable. widespread deployment.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2009

The US Department of Energy will award up to $21 million to five projects that will develop supply systems to handle and deliver high-tonnage biomass feedstocks for cellulosic biofuels production. Genera Energy, LLC of Knoxville, Tennessee (up to $4.9 Earlier post.). Auburn University of Auburn, Alabama (up to $4.9

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

By some estimates, upwards to 80,000 auto workers and a similar number in the auto supply chain have already been laid off globally to support the EV transition. By some estimates , upwards to 80,000 auto workers and a similar number in the auto supply chain have already been laid off globally to support the EV transition.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 25, 2022

But they’re up against the challenge of our global-warming time: dauntingly tight supplies of both batteries and the ethically sourced raw materials required to make them. VW is already building EV factories in Tennessee and China. Most automakers are dying to sell you—and the world—an electric car.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The Next ‘Better Place’ Is Australia New Subsidies for Electric Cars in Britain Tesla Motors to Build Battery Packs for Other Car Makers Previous post Group Says European Cap-and-Trade System Reduced Emissions Next post Cutting Costs With Solar Walls From 1 to 25 of 29 Comments 1 2 Next » 1. The best part?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Chrysler LLC and A123Systems signed an agreement stating that A123Systems will supply energy storage systems for Chryslers first-generation ENVI Range-extended Electric Vehicles and battery-only Electric Vehicles. Based in Watertown, Massachusetts, A123Systems has announced plans for a Michigan-based production facility. Follow us on Twitter!

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

The IRA, which, in addition to its climate-centric provisions, includes important steps to curb healthcare costs, particularly in the form of inflated prescription drug prices, crack down on tax cheats and revitalize U.S. made EV at its plant in Tennessee the next month. billion US factory to supply its electric vehicles.

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