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LeMond Composites licenses ORNL low-cost carbon fiber manufacturing process; transportation, renewable energy, & infrastructure

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LeMond Composites, founded by three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond, has licensed a low-cost, high-volume carbon fiber manufacturing process developed at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Earlier post.)

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NASA to fly payload with SpinLaunch’s mass accelerator to test low-cost, high-cadence kinetic launch system

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Through this partnership, SpinLaunch will develop, integrate, and fly a NASA payload on the company’s Suborbital Accelerator Launch System to provide valuable information to NASA for potential future commercial launch opportunities.

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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 boron-based lubricant additives to achieve higher fuel economy, longer durability, and better environmental compatibility in future and legacy engines. This project will develop a new process that enables low-cost, domestic manufacturing of magnesium. Plasan Carbon Composites. Dow Kokam, LLC.

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DOE issues $10M incubator FOA for batteries, power electronics, engines, materials, fuels and lubricants

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Incubator programs allow DOE to assess new technologies for potential to be on-ramped to future MYPPs. Carbon Fiber or Lightweight Materials. VTO is seeking projects that address the major challenges to developing and commercializing carbon fiber composites for lightweight structures.

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DOE to issue a funding opportunity announcement on H2@Scale new markets

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The R&D would be executed in collaboration with DOE’s Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) and would enable large-scale domestic electrolyzer manufacturing focused on reducing the cost of megawatt- and gigawatt-scale electrolyzers for diverse end uses. Advanced Carbon Fiber for Compressed Hydrogen and Natural Gas Storage Tanks.

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DOE to award almost $20M to new research and development projects for advanced vehicle technologies

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Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) Development of Low Cost Carbon Fiber for Lightweight Materials. Projects will develop and integrate a suite of computational tools that can accurately predict precursors for low cost carbon fiber. Battery500 Seedling Projects.

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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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Development of Low-cost, High Strength Automotive Aluminum Sheet (Area of Interest 1). Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) Development of Carbon Fiber Composites for Lightweight Vehicles (Area of Interest 2). Description. Alcoa, Inc. Ford Motor Company. Brookhaven National Lab. 1,500,000 (DOE/Army).

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