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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 develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber. Plasan Carbon Composites. The Pennsylvania State University. Optodot Corporation. 914,551.

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

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Electromechanics - University of Texas at Austin. The University of Texas at Austin will develop an at-home. University. Colorado State University will develop a vehicle-based natural. Corporation. Eaton Corporation will develop an at-home natural gas. Eaton will engineer a heat-transfer.

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