Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2019

DDOT and SMART provide high-quality, safe and cost-effective public transit to the southeast Michigan region. DDOT is the largest public transit agency in Michigan providing service to the city of Detroit and neighboring cities and SMART operates primarily in suburban areas. SMART and DDOT were awarded $2.6

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

After leaving GM in 2009, Dr. Burns was a Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Michigan (2011-2015), and Director of the Program for Sustainable Mobility at Columbia University (2010-2014). in Engineering/ Public Policy from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. He received a B.S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2019

With particular focus on battery technology development, vehicle integration and control systems, as well as vehicle connectivity and telemetry, Vantage Power technologies have been deployed in a wide range of applications including complete electric hybrid repower systems for buses to grid energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2010

The company anticipates making $80 million in capital expenditures in Massachusetts to build up its manufacturing and R&D capabilities there by the end of 2014. With the new expansion, A123 Systems will assemble and commission grid-storage battery systems in Massachusetts.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2021

GM and AT&T are collaborating to build a high performance 5G core network. This rollout is part of GM and AT&T’s broad strategy to launch the world’s largest fleet of 5G-enabled vehicles and the culmination of a two-year collaboration, including test-driving connected vehicles at GM’s 5G proving grounds in Milford, Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2021

The company is building on nearly two decades of battery expertise by centralizing a cross-functional team of 150 experts in battery technology development, research, manufacturing, planning, purchasing, quality and finance to help Ford develop and manufacture battery cells and batteries more quickly. This 200,000 sq.-ft.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2015

General Motors is partnering with DTE Energy to build a new 800-kilowatt solar array at its Warren Transmission plant that will be GM’s largest solar installation in Michigan. The 2,800 solar panels will generate clean electricity that will go back to the grid. DTE Energy will own the array on 4.25 acres of land leased from GM.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Xcel Energy has launched a new pilot for customers of five major automakers to make it easier for consumers to make the switch to electric vehicles in Colorado and to charge their EVs at times when renewable energy production is high and demand on the energy grid is low. —Alice Jackson, president, Xcel Energy-Colorado.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2022

This analysis builds on a previous comprehensive life cycle analysis, updating that study’s 2016 assumptions and methods. The electricity mix used in stationary processes (unless otherwise specified) comes from the 2035 US grid generation mix projected by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) in the Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) 2021.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2019

Regional differences in climate, electric grid burdens, and driving patterns compound to produce significant regional heterogeneity in the GHG benefits of electrification. The results highlight the need for a portfolio of fuel efficient offerings to recognize the heterogeneity of regional climate, electric grid burdens, and driving patterns.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

GM’s focus will be offering zero-emissions vehicles across a range of price points and working with all stakeholders, including EDF, to build out the necessary charging infrastructure and promote consumer acceptance while maintaining high quality jobs, which will all be needed to meet these ambitious goals.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2020

Xcel services customers in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North and South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. Our new, ambitious EV vision builds on this work as we continue to lead the clean energy transition and enhance the customer experience while keeping bills low. Utility holding company Xcel Energy wants 1.5

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As more power stations adopted the clocks, the frequency regulation allowed them to share electricity and create an interconnected power grid. And Warren, who eventually solved the grid-frequency problem, was actually working on a different puzzle when he came across the answer. How Warren’s clocks regulated grid frequency Henry E.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2020

The teams will develop digital twin technologies for robust O&M strategies that can facilitate, among other things, more flexible operations for integration into an electrical grid with a large fraction of intermittent generation resources. SSR-W is a low overnight-capital plant design, targeting a e build cost.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2010

GE and Nissan have signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore new technologies that are needed to build a reliable, dynamic smart-charging infrastructure for electric vehicles. The first relates to the integration of electric vehicles with homes and buildings. Nissan LEAF Reservations. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Johnson Controls and NEC had submitted complementary bids, Johnson Controls for the automotive and government assets and NEC for the grid and commercial assets. Reports by other parties that our proposal involved an elimination of jobs in Michigan are inaccurate. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2012

We believe that A123’s industry-leading technology for vehicle electrification, grid energy storage and other industries complements Wanxiang’s strong R&D and manufacturing capabilities, so we think adding A123 to our portfolio of businesses strongly aligns with our strategy of investing in the automotive and cleantech industries in the US.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

As one of the speakers put it to the attendees, the bulk of which came from Southeast Michigan, plug-in vehicles will a major career path for most of the people in the room. The impact from plug-in electric vehicles on the grid could be very substantial. One the issues for PG&E is the impact of peak demand on the grid.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

The message from consumers about the Bolt EV concept was clear and unequivocal: Build it. It is also home to a 350-kilowatt solar array that produces the energy equivalent to power 165 homes and sends enough energy back to the grid to power about 45 homes. The Bolt EV concept makes its debut in Detroit. Click to enlarge.

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Blink Charging

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The state of Michigan, for example, is using AI to help transportation planners decide where to put EV charging stations. Michigan state officials have said the software has already recommended that eight new chargers be installed at several Kroger grocery store locations. Grid Management. In many ways, actually. Trip Planning.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2010

We need an interactive grid to make this work. We have to change the regulatory requirements to recognize the investments in the smart grid that have to be made. Right now we are operating with a grid that was not adequate at middle of the last century. If you build it, they aren’t coming. Gasoline is too cheap.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $150 million in clean energy tax credits to 12 businesses to build US capabilities in clean energy manufacturing; $98 million of that goes to five automakers and suppliers towards investments in domestic manufacturing equipment. Ford transformed its Michigan Assembly Plant (MAP) in Wayne, Mich.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

million over two years will improve short-term wind forecasting, which will accelerate the use of wind power in electricity transmission networks by allowing utilities and grid operators to more accurately forecast when and where electricity will be generated from wind power. Clean Green Energy, LLC (Brighton, Michigan).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2016

To navigate in the dark, Ford self-driving cars use high-resolution 3D maps—complete with information about the road, road markings, geography, topography and landmarks like signs, buildings and trees. The vehicle uses LiDAR pulses to pinpoint itself on the map in real time. LiDAR sensors shoot out 2.8

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2009

A123Systems has raised $69 million from GE and other investors to accelerate the expansion of its US lithium-ion battery manufacturing and smart grid capabilities. The capital will help support the expansion of A123’s facilities in Hopkinton, MA, and Novi, MI, as well as build planned new factories in Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2013

The new SP:01 was launched under the brand’s mantra of ‘Pure Electric Excitement’ and was revealed at Detroit Electric’s new headquarters in the Fisher Building in downtown Detroit. The SP:01 will be produced at the new Detroit Electric production site in Wayne Country, Michigan. Electric (Battery) Plug-ins'

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Additionally, Ford has just announced a ‘resizing’ in plans to build a $3.5 billion battery plant in Marshall, Michigan, citing a need to reevaluate how best to ‘competitively run the plant.’ The United Auto Workers strike in the U.S. is already affecting the industry, even though it has now been resolved.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2016

Electrical Grid Connections. While future demand from the automotive industry is significant, the real game changer for the lithium industry may be electrical grid storage. Grid storage is designed on a variety of scales, each with a different price point.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Shyft Group, formerly known as Spartan Motors, has nearly five decades of experience designing and building fleet vehicles of all shapes and sizes including half of all last mile delivery vehicles. These delivery vans are what you think of when you think about a standard FedEx or UPS delivery truck.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 30, 2024

But as dominant as they’ve become, there are other ways to build a battery. The plant situated near Michigan’s western shore has already started making cells and plans its first shipments in June. Natron’s facility in Holland, Michigan, is funded in part by a nearly USD 20 million federal grant. Natron Energy Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

SuperTruck II builds on the successful SuperTruck I program, which has already led to more than twenty fuel saving technologies that have reached the commercial market, said Acting Assistant Secretary David Friedman. Grid Modernization for Electric Vehicles (Area of Interest 2). Michigan State University. Drive Oregon.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

Southern Michigan; and Washington, DC. To further build on the foundation laid out under the Recovery Act, DOE recently announced the availability of $5 million in electric vehicle funding for local governments and private companies to continue to accelerate installation of electric vehicle charging stations and infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2012

Wanxiang’s proposed investment in A123 is intended to create the capital structure necessary for the company to continue growing its core businesses, and alignment with Wanxiang is also expected to substantially strengthen A123’s access to the growing vehicle electrification and grid-scale energy storage markets in China.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. Buses will be powered by an Azure Dynamics hybrid system of Michigan. Thunder Bay Transportation Authority – TBTA, Michigan: $2,590,000.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2010

ChargePoint America will provide 4,600 Level II (220 – 240 volts) public and private ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations by October 2011 to program participants in nine regions in the United States: Austin, Texas; Detroit, Michigan; Los Angeles, California; New York, New York; Orlando, Fla.; Sacramento, Calif.; and Washington DC.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 28, 2024

Amid these conflicting signals, this is the start of the second generation of what Honda is terming a “fuel cell module”—developed with GM and made in Michigan—as both companies pivot the tech toward those commercial vehicles, construction vehicles, agriculture, and stationary power sources.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

However, achieving either goal would likely require governments offering hundreds of billions of dollars, if not trillions, in EV subsidies to ICE owners over the next decade, not to mention significant investments in EV charging infrastructure and the electrical grid. billion to more than 2 billion.

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