Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

At an event in the GM Tech Center campus in Warren, Michigan, General Motors unveiled the core of its new strategy to grow the company’s EV sales quickly, efficiently and profitably. Photo by Steve Fecht for General Motors). billion joint venture plant that GM and LG Chem plan to build in Lordstown, Ohio.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

General Motors and OneD Battery Sciences signed a joint research development agreement focused on the potential use of OneD’s silicon nanotechnology in GM’s Ultium battery cells to drive significant increases in energy density for longer range and reduced cost.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2022

Honda opened its new $124-million wind tunnel facility in Ohio, ushering in a new era of development testing capabilities for Honda and Acura products, as well as the company’s race vehicles. The new Honda Automotive Laboratories of Ohio (HALO) facility, located at the independent Transportation Research Center Inc. Investment.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Lordstown Motors ( NASDAQ: RIDE ) reported its Earnings for Q4 2021 on Monday morning, revealing increasing costs and a decreased production and delivery outlook has the automaker hanging on by a thread. Last year, Lordstown sold its Ohio plant to Foxconn and then delayed the launch of the Endurance all-electric pickup.

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Teslarati

JUNE 5, 2022

billion to add over 6,200 union jobs to its manufacturing plants in Michigan, Ohio, and Missouri. Ford is America’s Number 1 employer of hourly autoworkers, and this investment only deepens our commitment to building great new vehicles – from an all-new Mustang to new EVs – right here in the U.S. Ohio: Ford plans to invest $1.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Ford Motor Company reported that it has built its two-millionth EcoBoost engine since the launch of the line in 2009. liter EcoBoost to 1,000 engines per day, and is investing $200 million in its Cleveland, Ohio plant to build the 2.0-liter More than 100,000 EcoBoost engines are now produced every month, with a target of 1.2

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Aptera Motors, the developer of an all-electric, three-wheeled lightweight aerodynamic vehicle ( earlier post ) is shutting down. Our business plan was examined from top to bottom by internal agency representatives, independent consultants and experts in academia. The last remaining hurdle was finding new funds to match the DOE loan.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2017

Lucid Motors made its global auto show debut at the New York International Auto Show, presenting the Lucid Air luxury electric sedan and also presenting its Alpha Speed Car test vehicle, which had just completed its first high-speed stability test at 217 mph (349.2 Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2015

In the wind energy industry, advances in low-cost composite materials will help manufacturers build longer, lighter and stronger blades to create more energy. Dow Chemical Company; DowAksa; DuPont; ESI North America; Evonik Corporation; Faurecia US Holdings; Fives; Ford Motor Company; GE Water & Power; Graco Inc.; TPI Composites, Inc.;

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Teslarati

JUNE 2, 2022

Ford Motor Company announced today it would invest $3.7 The investment also includes $35 million to build an all-new Ford Customer Service Division packaging facility in Monroe that will create more than 600 union jobs, with operations expected to begin in 2024 to help accelerate parts shipments for Ford customers.

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EV Central

MARCH 9, 2023

Pioneering in-wheel motor EV maker Lordstown Motors Corp has been forced to recall 19 of 31 Endurance utes it has built because of component quality issues. At the same it has stopped production of the Endurance at the plant in Lordstown Ohio the company is named after. Lordstown Motors Endurance assembly plant.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2011

At the SAE 2011 World Congress in Detroit, Michigan, US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, David Sandalow, announced the official launch of the EcoCAR 2 : Plugging into the Future competition and the sixteen university teams selected to participate.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 7, 2023

UAW strikes entered their fourth week on Friday, and the union held off on escalating worker walkouts for a third week in a row as new and unexpected concessions were made by General Motors (GM) this week, according to a report from Reuters. “GM has agreed to lay the foundation for a just transition [to EVs],” Fain added. .”

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2015

Honda staged the North American debut of the Honda FCV fuel cell vehicle at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS); the company also announced US availability for the FCV in 2016. Additionally, Honda said it plans further application of its two- and three-motor hybrid systems in the years to come. Earlier post.).

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Baua Electric

JUNE 30, 2023

Life good fortune used to be for sure an extended shot, he noticed a trail: Reduce the will for capital, manufacture a group occupied with R&D and technical facets round bringing an EV to marketplace, past partnering with a powerful production corporate with two times the earnings of Tesla and international provide chain prowess.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

In August, Johnson Controls announced additional capacity at its US plant in Toledo, Ohio, bringing the overall investment to $130 million since the start of AGM production at this site in 2012. Johnson Controls is also planning to build a new automotive battery manufacturing facility in Shenyang, China.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 10, 2022

It may not seem much of an advance to be building an airship that flies no faster than the Hindenburg. Pathfinder 1 has 12 electric motors for propulsion, as well as four tail fins with steering rudders controlled by its fly-by-wire system. Some 21st-century Airship Tech.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 25, 2021

It's a great time to be a battery maker: The world could see 145 million electric vehicles on roads by 2030, versus 10 million in 2020, according to the International Energy Agency. Boomtimes in Batteries. Buyers registered 3 million new EVs globally last year. Those cars were stuffed with 134.5 Tesla's deployment of 22.5 Meeting Demand.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Ohio-based Advanced Mechanical Products, Inc. ( The AMP Equinox features dual Remy motors—the same model used in the GM two-mode hybrid system—applied in an AMP-manufactured drivetrain that is the “ secret sauce ” for the converted vehicle, according to Steve Burns, AMP’s CEO. Earlier in February, AMP and Remy International, 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. Ohio State University. Advances for the Production of Low‐Cost Electric Drive vehicle Motors (Area of Interest 5).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The Purdue-led NEXTCAR project team also includes Cummins, Peterbilt Motors Company, ZF TRW, the University of Arizona and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). This project will build upon our existing system and is complementary to the higher-automation solutions we are developing next.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2014

Wide bandgap technology could thus enable significantly more compact and efficient power electronic devices for electric vehicles, renewable power interconnection, industrial-scale variable speed drive motors and a smarter more flexible grid; in addition to high-performance defense applications (e.g.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2015

Ford Motor Company is thus investigating alternative sustainable sources of rubber for automotive use in these non-tire applications. These high performance properties include resilience, elasticity, abrasion resistance, efficient heat dispersion (minimizing heat build-up under friction), and impact resistance.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2009

Ford Motor Company has developed an intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications and control system for its plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that communicates directly with the electric grid. The first of the specially equipped plug-in hybrids has been delivered to American Electric Power of Columbus, Ohio. Click to enlarge.

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EV Adoption

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Will GM’s Ultium Cells battery factory in Lordstown, Ohio be able to supply enough battery packs? Two Honda and Acura EVs that GM will build at its North American plants. But all other new GM EVs will use the Ultium batteries produced in the LG Chem joint venture Ultium Cells LLC factory in Lordstown, Ohio.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2009

Ford Motor Company began production of its EcoBoost engines ( earlier post ) at Cleveland Engine Plant No. Approximately 250 employees are returning to the plant to build the new engines. 1 opened in 1951 as Ford’s first engine plant in Ohio. Ford invested $55 million to retool and reopen the plant, which had been idled in 2007.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2009

General Motors Corp. Mansfield, Ohio. Parma Components, Ohio Close: Dec 2010. Columbus, Ohio Close: 31 Dec 2009. These totals reflect GM’s recently announced plans to build a future small car in the US. billion of other, primarily international debt, but excluding Europe. $9 Grand Rapids, Mich. Powertrain.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

General Motors. Tesla Motors, Inc. The Standard for High Performance Green Buildings will consider a revision to encourage EV-ready building practices. a standard for high performance green buildings that in 2018 will become the basis for the International Green Construction Code. Duke Energy.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Just before the global pandemic, on an average day 12 million people flew on some 100,000 commercial flights, according to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Advanced semiconductors, motors, and batteries are enabling energy conversion efficiencies above 90 percent and continuously improving the ratio of power to weight.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Several automakers announced partnerships to advance fuel cell electric vehicles, including Daimler, Ford, and Nissan ( earlier post ); Honda and General Motors ( earlier post ); Toyota and BMW ( earlier post ); and Volkswagen and Ballard Power Systems ( earlier post ). Earlier post.). Many automakers anticipate commercialization by 2017.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 1, 2021

Steam and gasoline-powered vehicles had internal combustion engines (ICE). Henry Ford, in spite of his interest in building an electric car that prefigured the later, successful Model T. In Cleveland, Ohio, Oliver Frichtle claimed his battery-powered car could make it 100 miles before needing a charge. EVs vs. ICE Vehicles.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Alpha Ace Coupe – imagine a full-sized Aussie Racing Car but with an electric motor instead of a bike engine. Aston Martin Valhalla – AMG V8 engine heavily tweaked by Aston Martin topped off with two electric motors. litre four-cylinder teamed to an electric motor to make a 180kW PHEV good for up to 55km on electricity.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

employees engaged in motor vehicle parts manufacturing, about one-quarter—nearly 150,000—make components for internal combustion powertrains.”. One study shows that even in 2050, some 44 percent of all vehicle sales globally will still have internal combustion engines, albeit perhaps using biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Building Efficiency (3 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. The projects selected are grouped into 10 areas: Energy Storage (6 projects). Biomass Energy (5 projects). Carbon Capture (5 projects).

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Yet Cadillac is leading the high end of General Motors’ ambitious move into EVs for all its brands. It’s the first of GM’s brands to dispense with internal combustion engines. billion to build those plants, it said in July, under its Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing (ATVM) low-interest loan program.

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

Department of Energy’s Alternative Fuels Data Center , “The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 ( Public Law 117-169 ) amends the Qualified Plug-in Electric Drive Motor Vehicle Credit ( IRC 30D ), now known as the Clean Vehicle Credit, and adds a new requirement for final assembly in North America that takes effect on August 16, 2022 ” .

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