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University of Tennessee to head $250M advanced composites manufacturing institute; Ford, Honda and Volkswagen members

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The new institute pairs leading carbon fiber producers and suppliers—such as Materials Innovation Technologies, Harper International, and Strongwell—with key end users such as TPI for wind turbines and Ford, Honda and Volkswagen for automobiles. PolyOne Corporation; PPG Industries, Inc.; Adherent Technologies, Inc.;

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US DOE awards more than $175M to 40 projects for advanced vehicle research and development

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This project will enable diesel-like efficiency and increased maximum power output in a gasoline engine by using a secondary fuel to suppress engine knock under high load. Increased availability of low cost carbon fiber can enable vehicle weight reduction and improvement in fuel economy. Plasan Carbon Composites.

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DOE awards $1.87M to 7 projects to advance high performance computing in manufacturing

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Each of the seven projects will receive up to $300,000 to support modeling and simulation subject-matter experts at the national laboratories and provide the needed supercomputing power. A 10% implementation of carbon fiber composites in 10% of new vehicles can reduce fuel usage by 1.9 million tons of CO 2.

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ARPA-E selects 13 projects for $30M in awards to advance natural gas vehicle technologies

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power the vehicle as well as compress natural gas for storage. Corporation. Eaton Corporation will develop an at-home natural gas. Eaton Corporation will develop an at-home natural gas. Eaton will engineer a heat-transfer. intestine storage tanks could be as light as today’s carbon fiber.

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