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DOE awards Texas A&M AgriLife Research $2.2M to investigate ways to market bio waste from biofuel refineries

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million grant to researchers at Texas A&M AgriLife Research to investigate potential discoveries for waste products used in lignocellulosic biofuel production, turning them into valuable agents used in producing commercial products such as biodiesel and asphalt binding agents. in Washington State and the University of Tennessee.

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Local Motors 3D printing a Strati at NAIAS; announces two micro-factories to open

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Made from a carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic material by SABIC, the current model of the Strati takes approximately 44 hours to print 212 layers. Gone are the days of an economy of scale in order to introduce and commercialize a technology. and one at National Harbor, just outside Washington DC.

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DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

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Demonstrate plugā€in electric vehicles through public ride and drives for a wide variety of PEVs and short term extended test drives in key markets throughout Oregon and Washington. Demonstrate the joining of steel to aluminum and aluminum to carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites using the existing spot welding infrastructure.

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LA-based SMLC to lead new DOE Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute; ~$800M for 5 new hub competitions

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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. LanzaTech; Materia; SEVA; TowerJazz; Small: Able Industrial Products Inc.; manufacturers and the nation up to 1.6

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The technology behind Fordā€™s Lightweight Concept Vehicle; prospects for Mach-II with 50% mass reduction difficult

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Aluminum will be very product specific; on the [new] F-150, its absolutely the right solution. A 10% reduction in vehicle weight can result in a 6%-8% fuel economy improvement. The new MMLV components are being integrated in series-production vehicles to create full vehicles and subassemblies for testing.

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DOE to award $49.4M for advanced vehicle technologies research; meeting Tier 3 emissions

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The new program-wide funding opportunity ( DE-FOA-0000991 ) ( earlier post ), was announced by Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz at the Washington Auto Show. AOI 2: Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) Development of Carbon Fiber Composites for Lightweight Vehicles. ($6M) Carbon Fiber Composite Targets.

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DOE to award more than $55M to 31 projects for plug-in and efficient vehicle technologies; Delphi receives $10M to further GDCI

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Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) Development of Carbon Fiber Composites for Lightweight Vehicles (Area of Interest 2). This project will develop, integrate and implement predictive models for Carbon-Fiber Reinforced Polymer composites that link the material design, molding process and final performance.

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