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

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IACMI is dedicated to overcoming these barriers by developing low-cost, high-production, energy-efficient manufacturing and recycling processes for composites applications. In the wind energy industry, advances in low-cost composite materials will help manufacturers build longer, lighter and stronger blades to create more energy.

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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 new process that enables low-cost, domestic manufacturing of magnesium. 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.

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DOE awards nearly $55M to advance fuel efficient vehicle technologies in support of EV Everywhere and SuperTruck

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This project will develop a low cost, ultra-compact power module using innovative integrated-cooling to increase power density, improve performance, and reduce cost. This project will develop an integrated flame spray process for low cost production of battery materials for lithium ion batteries and beyond.

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

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Part of DOE’s High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program ( earlier post ), the seven new public private partnerships will enable greater collaboration between DOE national labs and the US manufacturing industry. A 10% implementation of carbon fiber composites in 10% of new vehicles can reduce fuel usage by 1.9

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

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parts, leading to a more reliable, lighter, and cost effective. Eaton Corporation will develop an at-home natural gas. Eaton will engineer a heat-transfer. materials for low-pressure gas storage tanks using their computational screening tool. identification of low-cost, high-performance materials that will.

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