Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Increasingly, the US is splitting into two camps when it comes to EV adoption: those states who’ve been aggressive about offering incentives and building infrastructure to support EVs and those that have not. Similarly, South Dakota is projected to reach just 35% share and Michigan is projected to reach 41% share by 2035. Methodology.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $35 million for 24 projects to support early-stage, innovative technologies and solutions in advanced manufacturing. manufacturers that could improve their competitiveness and enhance their energy efficiency. Advanced Manufacturing Awards. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2022

MHI) has invested in Electric Hydrogen (EH2), a clean hydrogen startup headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, to support its efforts in developing cost-competitive, fossil-free hydrogen. MHI is working to build a hydrogen value chain through its proprietary technologies, plus investment and collaboration with companies such as EH2.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2021

GM Ventures was an early investor six years ago in MIT spin-out SES, a research, development and manufacturing leader of Li-Metal technology and AI-powered battery management software to optimize performance and safety. Today’s joint development agreement is the next progression of that ongoing collaboration.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

At an event in Washington, President Obama announced that the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (SMLC) will lead the new Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute, in partnership with the Department of Energy. The Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute is the ninth manufacturing hub awarded by the Obama Administration.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2009

maker of the long-lasting, fast-charging Sonata Li-ion battery for laptops, is planning to build a 455,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Auburn, Massachusetts that would complement its existing China-based operations. Boston-Power, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The assistant professor and William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has proposed the development of a modular electrochemical system that will provide “a sustainable, negative-carbon, low-waste and point-source manufacturing path preferable to traditional large-scale chemical process plants.”.

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InsideEVs

APRIL 24, 2021

SES and GM will build a manufacturing prototyping line in Woburn, Massachusetts.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

States signing the MOU are: California, Connecticut, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2019

The project includes participation from eight additional institutions: the Air Force Research Laboratory, Boeing Research and Technology, General Electric Global Research, The Ohio State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Arkansas, the University of Dayton Research Institute, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

These include President Biden’s executive order to electrify 645,000 Federal government vehicles as well as Build Back Better policy to provide incentives to electrify all 500,000 municipally-operated school buses in the United States. Highland benefits from government initiatives that accelerate fleet electrification.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Unifrax, a manufacturer of high-performance specialty materials, introduced its Battery Advisory Board, which will meet regularly to provide strategic guidance as Unifrax grows its battery portfolio and enters the silicon anode market with its new SiFAB Silicon Fiber Anode Battery Technology. Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

JANUARY 10, 2022

The City of Covington, Georgia has landed a massive $43 million lithium-ion battery recycling plant, the largest of its kind in North America, just weeks after electric automaker Rivian announced it would build its second U.S.-based based factory in the area.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2010

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) has approved a $5-million forgivable loan for Li-ion battery manufacturer A123 Systems contingent on its hitting job creation and private investment milestones. With the new expansion, A123 Systems will assemble and commission grid-storage battery systems in Massachusetts.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2014

The round was funded by new investors KLP Enterprises, the family office of Karen Pritzker and Michael Vlock, and Building Insurance Bern (GVB), the Swiss Insurance company, as well as existing investors, including Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates and the energy company Total.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The State of Maine has voted "yes" to Question 4, which mimics the right-to-repair legislation that passed in Massachusetts three years earlier. Maine residents voted to approve the measure by roughly 84 percent and will now have laws in place akin to what we’ve seen in Massachusetts and several other states.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

million to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts for Phase II of a lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery recycling contract. The team will also explore how different anode materials, including lithium, silicon, and titanium dioxide, as well as adhesives used in battery manufacture, affect the recycling process.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 5, 2024

is a solid-state battery developer based in Massachusetts that specializes in energy-dense cell technology for EV applications. cell maker, we believe our high energy density cell will help build more efficient and sustainable vehicles that will set new standards for electric vehicle range, cost and performance globally.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Closing of local automotive assembly plants may lead to increases in deaths from opioid overdose, according to a study led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts General Hospital.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Power ranked for EV adoption overlap with states that had the most policies for scaling deployment of EVs and building charging infrastructure, according to a July scorecard by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. Those states are California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Washington, Oregon and Maryland.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Boston-Power recently broke ground on its new manufacturing site in Liyang. GSR Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on building world-class technology companies in China.

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DECEMBER 9, 2012

It is a subsidiary of Wanxiang Group, China’s largest automotive components manufacturer and one of China’s largest non-state-owned companies. We plan to build on the engineering and manufacturing capabilities that A123 has established in the US and we are committed to making the long-term investments necessary for A123 to be successful.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2013

Ford Motor Company is developing a new form of manufacturing technology—rapid freeform sheet metal forming—that has the potential to reduce costs and delivery time for sheet metal parts needed in smaller quantities. million US Department of Energy grant to advance next-generation, energy-efficient manufacturing processes.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Early production of engines, prior to the startup of the new Honda Aero production facility, has been conducted by GE Aviation at its Lynn, Massachusetts facility. With this new engine manufacturing facility, Honda will now be building both jets and jet engines in North Carolina. Earlier post.). Click to enlarge. 2014.01.147.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The growth capital and Chinese government incentives will be used predominantly to scale manufacturing, research and development, and business development activities in China for the company’s energy storage technology and products. Boston-Power, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Sunline Transit Agency, in partnership with the Southern California Association of Governments, will receive funding to build and deploy five hydrogen electric hybrid fuel cell buses. BAE Systems, Ballard Power Systems and ElDorado National will team up to build the new zero-emission buses. The Duluth Transit Authority (DTA).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

The announcement follows news of US Hybrid’s recently awarded Federal Transit Administration (FTA) contract to build the next generation of cost-effective fuel cells for transit buses. CALSTART administers the project for the FTA. Earlier post.) This agreement will allow the transfer of technology from UTC to a rapidly growing business.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2016

These projects will leverage national lab consortia launched under DOE’s Energy Materials Network (EMN) this past year ( earlier post ), and will support the President’s Materials Genome Initiative and advanced manufacturing priorities. According to the DOE’s 2015 Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report, many U.S.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

The flexibility of the Ensemble system allows customers to design, build and test a prototype pack in a fraction of the time it would typically take for a fully custom solution. Boston-Power has R&D centers in Westborough, Massachusetts, and Beijing, China, and mass manufacturing operations based in Asia.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2014

The new materials designed with additive manufacturing techniques exhibit high stiffness and low density, occupying a previously unpopulated area (upper left) of the Ashby material selection chart for Young’s modulus (stiffness) vs. density. The team was able to build microlattices out of polymers, metals and ceramics.

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Blink Charging

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Blink’s Chief Operating Officer Mike Battaglia said this about the importance of the Utah contract: “Being recognized as a trusted supplier by the State of Utah is an important step for Blink, making our products more accessible to public agencies in building their EV infrastructure, as demonstrated at Salt Lake City International Airport.”

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2015

This Toyota initiative builds on previous commitments, including substantial financial support for the development of a hydrogen fueling infrastructure in California and the northeastern United States. Fuel Cells Hydrogen Hydrogen Storage Vehicle Manufacturers' In May 2014, Toyota announced a $7.3-million

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2018

Cost reduction via improvements in materials and manufacturing. R&D areas of interest included, but were not limited to: Cell manufacturing and quality control. R&D areas of interest included, but were not limited to: Cell manufacturing and quality control. Stack manufacturing and quality control. FuelCell Energy Inc.

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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2023

Gretchen Ertl/CFS/MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center CFS, a startup spun out of decades of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is among the leaders of a new wave of fusion-energy projects that have emerged in the past decade, taking advantage of technological advances as well as a surge in private-sector investment.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

This is due to the 30 to 40 percent increase in emissions EVs create in comparison to manufacturing an ICE vehicle, mainly from its battery production. Hundreds of billions in annual investment are needed not only to fix the current public transport system but to build new ones to significantly reduce car dependency in America.

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Driivz

JULY 2, 2023

Electric school buses equipped with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology also have tremendous potential as “batteries on wheels” that can store electricity and provide it to the grid or to buildings when needed. Growth in the MHD manufacturing sector is helping accelerate adoption as well. million fleet vehicles in the U.S. and Europe.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

In 2007, Vorbeck signed a worldwide license agreement with Princeton University for a patented method from the the Aksay Labs for manufacturing graphene at commercial scale. The powder form of titanium is easier to work with than having to cast the metal, particularly given titanium’s tendency to react with the materials used to form molds.

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