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OCTOBER 17, 2020

billion investment in Factory ZERO, Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Center for retooling and upgrades will position the facility to build EVs at scale. Ultium is flexible enough to build a wide range of EVs—cars, trucks and more—and is the heart of GM’s future EV lineup. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2011

GM and DTE Energy will install a 516 kW solar array at Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly—the home of the Chevrolet Volt. The array, the largest photovoltaic solar array in Southeast Michigan, will generate electricity capable of charging 150 Volts per day (54,750 Volts/year).

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 15, 2014

Building electric cars and plug-in hybrids is great, but what if there''s no place to charge them? The carmaker announced it is teaming with Detroit utility DTE Energy to build a solar canopy over hundreds of parking.'

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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

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2023

Hanwha Group and LG Energy Solution (LGES) will invest in building battery production facilities in the United States. Hanwha Corporation/Momentum is an automation engineering company providing manufacturing facilities for batteries, solar panels and display.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Under a pilot program exclusive to Ford, Wind Energy will install wind sail and solar panel systems at four Ford dealerships, a nearly $750,000 investment, to help power dealer facilities. Each Windy System includeswind sail technology that harvests wind energy and an integrated 7 kW solar array.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

We’ve now got some Mo going with: California solar loan financing that will eliminate the big up front cost of solar. With the coming solar feed-in tariff legislation moving through Sacramento that will pay us for the extra solar energy we produce and feed back into the grid.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

The investment is the largest to date at both facilities and includes $384 million at Detroit-Hamtramck for new body shop tooling, equipment, and additional plant upgrades to build the next generation Chevrolet Volt and two future products. billion invested in Michigan-based facilities alone. This includes more than $2.8

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

a pioneer in materials science and renewable energy technologies, today voluntarily filed a petition for relief under Chapter 11 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Sale of United Solar. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Solar Integrated Technologies, Inc.

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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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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Transparent solar cells can transform buildings into. A new approach by the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor might dramatically extend the working life of solar windows. A new approach by the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor might dramatically extend the working life of solar windows.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2012

By comparison, average households in states like California, New York, Illinois and Michigan use between 562 kwh and 799 kwh monthly. At Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich., At Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich., Ford’s progress has been achieved by investing in energy-saving practices and equipment.

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2016 Ford Manufacturer Energy 256

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 Abengoa Solar Inc.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The Michigan Fuel Forward project will work with a wide range of partners. The Michigan Fuel Forward project will work with a wide range of partners. Michigan's first responders, mechanics, and electricians. recommendations for uniform fire and building codes for alternative. Carolina Solar Center. Clean Energy.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Press release from NRDC.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 9, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: The BMW i3 and i8 electric cars could threaten Tesla Motors, a new report says, the E-FAN electric aircraft makes its first flight, and Mahindra plans to build an electric scooter in Michigan. BMW designs a custom solar charging station for the i3 and i8 plug-in cars that makes as.'

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2012

With an $11-million, five-year grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Materials Genome Initiative ( earlier post ), the University of Michigan is putting in another $1.3 million to establish a DOE Software Innovation Center called the PRedictive Integrated Structural Materials Science Center, or PRISMS.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

In 2015, GM required 9 terawatt hours of electricity to build its vehicles and power its offices, technical centers and warehouses around the world. The new renewable energy commitment builds on GM’s previous goal to promote the use of 125 megawatts of renewable energy by 2020. megawatt solar array powers 1.5% Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

MAY 13, 2023

TSMC), which was already building a $12 billion fab in Arizona , upped the investment to $40 billion with a second plant. In addition to building two cutting-edge chip factories on a 4-square-kilometer megasite that could hold six more fabs, the company has pledged $50 million to 80 higher-education institutions in the state.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Photo: NanoGraf Chicago-based NanoGraf will build a $175 million factory to produce 2,500 tons of silicon anode material to support up to 1.5 NanoGraf’s new factory The US Department of Energy ( DOE ) has awarded $60 million to the silicon anode battery company to help build its factory under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2021

The new funding builds on that initial investment and will bring closer collaboration with program partners. The participating institutions include: California Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. University of Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

The program encourages cooperation between Israeli and American companies through funding joint research and development in a range of technologies, including solar, wind, biofuels, energy storage, fuel cells, smart grid, and water and energy efficiency. Rehovot, Israel) and ALD NanoSolutions Inc. SoftWheel Ltd. TerraGenic Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Direct Solar Fuels (5 projects). 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. DIRECT SOLAR FUELS. Biomass Energy (5 projects). Carbon Capture (5 projects).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2013

On a large scale, high-power electronics are used to connect solar panels and wind turbines to the grid, to operate industrial equipment such as elevators and HV/AC systems, and to run electric and hybrid-electric vehicles. Michigan State University. iBeam Materials, Inc. Diamond Diode and Transistor Devices.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2011

It builds on the powersplit architecture Ford uses in its current hybrids, allowing it to operate in fuel-saving electric mode beyond 47 mph (76 km/h). Both the C-MAX Energi and C-MAX Hybrid models will be built alongside the all-new 2012 Ford Focus and Focus Electric at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

University of Michigan. Solar Energy Conversion in Complex Materials (SECCM). Study complex material structures on the nanoscale to identify key features for their potential use as materials to convert solar energy and heat to electricity. Solar Fuels and Next Generation Photovoltaics. Center for Excitonics. $19.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2019

HITEMMP projects include: Michigan State University. Michigan State University’s HIPPED technology is a highly scalable heat exchanger suited for high-efficiency power generation systems that use supercritical CO 2 as a working fluid and operate at high temperature and high pressure. Michigan Technological University.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

This project aims to design and build a synthetic biological module that could work inside a cell to perform the function of “fixing” nitrogen for plants. Some plant-like bacteria (cyanobacteria) are able to fix nitrogen using solar energy via specialized cellular machinery.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Inspired by the damping mechanisms which sustain trees under wind and seismic loads, researchers at The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan are investigating the potential for the development of energy harvesting systems that efficiently convert the same motion- and wind-based excitations into electric power. 2015.11.017.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Image: Penske Truck Leasing Penske Truck Leasing is rolling out rooftop solar on its US truck leasing, rental, and maintenance buildings, starting in Illinois. The 200 kW system is expected to generate about 80% of the building’s energy needs, and the rest will be supplied by the local utility.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 13, 2024

billion guaranteed US Department of Energy (DOE) loan to build around 7,500 DC fast chargers. Read more: Tesla loses out to EVgo in Oklahomas NEVI EV charger rollout To limit power outages and make your home more resilient, consider going solar with a battery storage system. Get started here.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

GRVC ] Cassie Blue navigates around furniture treated as obstacles in the atrium of the Ford Robotics Building at the University of Michigan. GRVC ] Cassie Blue navigates around furniture treated as obstacles in the atrium of the Ford Robotics Building at the University of Michigan. ugo ] Robot, make me a sandwich.

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Baua Electric

JULY 22, 2024

Now, the solar vehicles have completed the first stage of the cross-country Electrek American Solar Challenge (ASC). What is the American Solar Challenge? Like the FSGP, the American Solar Challenge is open to the public. Stage 1 results Here are the results from Stage 1 of the Electrek American Solar Challenge!

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

Clean Energy Coalition’s CEC Michigan Green Fleets Initiative. The project will increase the use of natural gas, electric and hybrid electric vehicles in 13 sites throughout Michigan. Fleets include transportation authorities, cities, school districts, the University of Michigan, FedEx, and Meijer. Total DOE award: $14,983,167.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The Dana Farber project team will design and build billions of first-of-their-kind molecular 2D printers, that are atomically precise, and which could produce trillions of atomically precise products to advance atomically precise manufacturing. Michigan State University. Solar Turbines Incorporated. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2015

Spider9, a 2011 spin-out from the University of Michigan, announced a technology licensing agreement with Samsung Electronics (“Samsung”) for use of Spider9’s proprietary Energy Operating System (OS E ) technology. Earlier post.)

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