Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Group14 intends to build two 2,000 ton per year commercial manufacturing modules. These funds will support the build-out of a 600,000 sq ft factory housed in Moses Lake, Washington, that will produce lithium-ion anode materials. This patented structure results in high-energy density, cycle stability, and fast charge capability.

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

Group14 intends to build two 2,000 ton per year commercial manufacturing modules. These funds will support the build-out of a 600,000 sq ft factory housed in Moses Lake, Washington, that will produce lithium-ion anode materials. This patented structure results in high-energy density, cycle stability, and fast charge capability.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2023

General Motors and Australia-based Element 25 Limited announced an agreement for Element 25 to supply up to 32,500 metric tons of manganese sulfate (MnSO 4 ) annually to support the annual production of more than 1 million GM EVs in North America.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2021

General Motors and MP Materials ( earlier post ) have formed a strategic collaboration to develop a fully integrated US supply chain for rare earth magnets. To optimize for efficiency and sustainability, waste generated during MP’s rare earth alloy and magnet manufacturing will be recycled back into the process.

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JULY 19, 2021

dba Glass Dyenamics) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory will use HPC- and Machine-Learning-Based Modelling to develop new electrochromic dyes for smart glass building windows with improved roll-to-roll manufacturability and low-cost. Next Generation Nonwovens Manufacturing Based on Model-Driven Simulation Machine Learning Approach.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

General Motors’ Rayong engine plant in Thailand and Cheongna proving ground in Korea are now landfill-free , bringing the company’s total to 33 sites throughout Asia that recycle, reuse or convert to energy all of their daily waste. Waste collection and separation systems also lead to improvements.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

General Motors has joined the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA), adding another element to company programs that support the sustainability and human rights of the EV supply chain. GM already requires suppliers to meet its standards and adhere to company values throughout the supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Eleven more General Motors facilities have achieved landfill-free status. The running total is 122 manufacturing and non-manufacturing operations spanning Asia, Europe, and South and North America that recycle, reuse or convert to energy all waste from daily operations. Colmotores Assembly (Colombia).

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Baua Electric

MAY 29, 2024

An alternative to electrolysis is to use organic waste by extracting hydrogen from rotting food or sewage. It’s also a stretch to expect traditional US car companies such as General Motors Co. or Ford Motor Co. It encompasses companies that build and service ships, produce electric motors, and even supply robots.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Concept diagram of an SMA heat engine for power generation from waste engine heat. As one of 37 projects selected by the US Department of Energy’s ARPA-E (earlier post), General Motors R&D will receive $2.7 Tags: ARPA-E Materials Waste Heat Recovery. Source: GM. Click to enlarge.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I’m excited to personally get out to as many of our plants and operations as possible in the coming weeks and months to spend time with our teams who build our vehicles. 1 brand again and we want to build on that in 2024. We are also working flat out on our next generation of electric vehicles and software platforms.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2011

a developer of technology for the production of advanced biofuels and biochemicals from biomass and waste materials, announced a first close of its Series D round of financing. Coskata Inc., The company has been operating a demonstration-scale integrated biorefinery in Madison, Pennsylvania since 2009.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2014

General Motors is using waste adhesive from the production of the 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray to build stalactites for artificial bat caves. John Bradburn, GM global manager of waste reduction, came up with the reuse idea, transforming the difficult-to-recycle material into nesting structures.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

One of GM’s innovations involves the creation of a shape memory alloy (SMA) heat engine for power generation from waste engine heat. More than half of the 1,300 patents filed by General Motors Co. Source: GM. Click to enlarge. Malackowski, CEO of Ocean Tomo LLC. “ Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2009

General Motors Company is investing more than $230 million in four GM plants in the greater Flint, Michigan area to support the production of the fuel-efficient 2011 Chevrolet Cruze and Volt extended range electric vehicle. four-cylinder engine generator for the Volt and the 1.4L four-cylinder turbo engine for the Cruze.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

General Motors for the first time achieved perfect scores on both climate change data disclosure and performance submitted to CDP , the world’s only global environmental disclosure system. This extends to how we build our products and how we engage with the world around us.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2013

Describing its product goals and tracking progress toward its 2020 manufacturing priorities in its 2012 Sustainability Report , General Motors reaffirmed its commitment to further reduce the energy used and the environmental impacts of building and operating an automobile. GM has a goal of 125 MW renewable energy.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The enlarged, cylindrical 4680 cell , which Tesla first teased at its Battery Day last September , brings its own sky-high hopes and challenges: If Tesla can pull off in-house, vertically integrated battery manufacturing, and the cell performs as advertised, the 4680 could fuel Musk's dreams to build millions of EVs a year around the world.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

million to support building additional hydrogen stations with FirstElement Fuel, reports Automotive News. The specs The CR-V e:FCEV is the first car to use the Japanese brand’s second-gen fuel cell module, codeveloped by General Motors and assembled in Michigan. Max power output is an estimated 92.2

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will evaluate and validate models for predicting the crash behavior of carbon fiber composites by building and testing subcomponent structures. Light weight multi-material prototype : Two projects awarded to design, build, and test a light-weight vehicle that is 50 percent lighter than a baseline light-duty vehicle.

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JUNE 12, 2012

This system will use waste heat to treat a wide variety of waste streams at manufacturing facilities. process will reuse more than 50% of the facilities’ wastewater, decrease wastewater discharge, and recover significant amounts of industrial waste. Bioelectrochemical Integration of Waste Heat. Difficult Materials.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected UOP, a Honeywell company, for negotiation of a $25 million award to build a demonstration unit in Hawaii to convert cellulosic biomass into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels. and evaluated for end-use by Honeywell, General Motors and Boeing. Source: UOP. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2016

General Motors and IBM are partnering to bring the power of OnStar and IBM Watson together to create OnStar Go, the auto industry’s first cognitive mobility platform. Simply put, OnStar Go with IBM Watson transforms time wasted in the car into time well spent. —Paul Papas, Global Leader, IBM iX.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 13, 2009

The Chevrolet Volt has been deemed by many automotive analysts to be General Motors’ great hope – and it appears the company is ready to throw its financial weight by its production. Tags: Chevrolet Green cars Hybrid cars Latest news Chevrolet Cruze Chevrolet Volt Chevy Volt Flint Michigan general motors.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

That car, based on its showroom Cayman sports car, previews a coming generation of Porsche’s customer racing teams, proving that, as one executive told IEEE Spectrum , “The electric future can be fun.” The all-electric GT4 can already match the Monaco lap times of the brand’s fearsome 911 GT3 Cup racer. gallons) of fuel. “We

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Ford’s Sustainability Report is also noteworthy as Ford publishes annual sustainability reports outlining their efforts to reduce carbon emissions, use sustainable materials, and minimise waste throughout their operations. #2 Hyundai made a $90 million investment in Croatian automaker Rimac just two years ago.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 2, 2009

Don’t forget that the big brains at General Motors used toasters, lamps and electric fans as the spokespeople last time they had a sexy electric car to market. But the Creative Greenius? I don’t need any sexy blondes to get my attention. I believe that in my soul, you HAVE to do those things.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Some of the ethanol that is being produced at the facility has been delivered to the General Motors Milford Proving Grounds for early testing, as well as to another major strategic partner. Sorted waste (construction and demolition). 9-10 for every one we build. Earlier post.). Wes Bolson. Resources. Wang, and S.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Building Efficiency (3 projects). Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). Seaweed is a potentially sustainable source of biomass for the production of fuels, expanding and building opportunities for bio-butanol as a fuel and fuel extender. BUILDING EFFICIENCY. Low-cost Electrochromic Film on Plastic for Net-zero Energy Building.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2011

This project builds on an existing collaboration between Simon Fraser University and Future Vehicle Technologies Inc. The partnership with USCAR brings significant industrial input from all three major North American automotive manufacturers—Ford, General Motors and Chrysler.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. superconducting wind generators more practical for. University, General. Motors Research and. General Motors, Molycorp, NovaTorque). HRL, General Motors. Electric Vehicle: A New Generation of High Density Thermal. light energy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2015

turbocharged direct injection engine (for North America) helps enable a General Motors-estimated 40 mpg (5.88 The crankshaft-driven oil pump matches the oil supply to the engine load, changing its capacity based on the engine’s demand for oil—eliminating energy wasted to pump oil that is not required for proper engine operation.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

For people looking for the most effective way to end our addiction to oil, PHEVs have made sense because carmakers can build them now, with todays technology and using todays infrastructure. They reinforce the Pacific National Labs January 2007 findings that we wont have to build new power plants for cars that charge at night.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Virtually all the world’s bigmotor manufacturers are building prototypes using lithium-ion batteries butso far they have reached production only in a few low-volume models. Matt Gentry, Aransas Pass , Tx, United States Instead of wasting time and money on an obvious SPIN Idea the government should put money into R&D.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

" In other words, General Motors is going to lose its shirt until the Volt establishes itself in the marketplace. General Motors has sought $10.3 They only have that many models because they use the same chassis and drivetrain to build 3 different cars, one branded as a Chevy, the next a Pontiac, then a Saturn, etc.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles by Darren Murph , posted Apr 19th 2009 at 4:24PM Just hours after General Motors put forth a proposal for a standardized plug for electric vehicles , in flies this. I imagine there will be tax incentives to build green generators when were at that stage.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The first buyers will be fleet users, which will build central fast-charging facilities. Put simply, this little-known upstart has accelerated ahead of its much bigger rivals in the race to build an affordable electric car. BYDs breakthrough all-electric E6, photographed at this years Detroit auto show.

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