Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture has opened a comprehensive research facility to accommodate faculty and industry initiatives through the new Center for Renewable Carbon (CRC). UT President Joe DiPietro called the CRC and its work the next step in the advancement of a biobased economy.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Nissan reported last week that its Rogue crossover is the first global model from the automaker to use a new “closed-loop” recycling system for aluminum that helps reduce carbon dioxide emissions due to manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

GM plans to become carbon-neutral in its global products and operations by 2040 and has committed to setting science-based targets to achieve carbon neutrality. The use of GM’s products accounts for 75% of carbon emissions related to this commitment. Carbon Offsets and Credits. Electrification.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2015

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. Adherent Technologies, Inc.; Honda R&D Americas, Inc.; TPI Composites, Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Green hydrogen is produced through the electrolysis of water with electricity generated from zero-carbon sources; only oxygen is emitted during the process. The facility will use a new 300 megawatt zero-carbon solar farm to power 120 megawatts of Plug Power’s state-of-the-art PEM electrolyzers.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2021

NASDAQ: PLUG), a leading provider of turnkey hydrogen solutions, signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on the development of low-carbon hydrogen business opportunities. We believe hydrogen is an important pathway for hard-to-electrify industries in a lower-carbon energy landscape. Phillips 66 and Plug Power Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2023

The utilization of X-energy’s fourth generation nuclear technology will enable Dow to take a major step in reducing our carbon emissions while delivering lower carbon footprint products to our customers and society. The Xe-100 is fueled with 220,000 graphite pebbles with TRISO (tri-structural isotropic) particle fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2023

The new 30 GWh battery plant builds on AESC’s existing battery manufacturing network that includes a plant in operation in Tennessee and another plant under construction in Kentucky. The company increasingly relies on recycled materials, leading to an overall reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from cell production at the new plant.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2021

Four first-of-a-kind 3D-printed fuel assembly brackets, produced at the Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have been installed and are now under routine operating conditions at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant Unit 2 in Athens, Alabama.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2023

The project is focused on providing the Seadrift site with safe, reliable, zero carbon emissions power and steam as existing energy and steam assets near their end-of-life. Dow and X-energy previously announced their entry into a joint development agreement (JDA) to install an advanced SMR nuclear plant at an industrial site in North America.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2021

Illinois Basin (Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and Tennessee): Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois aims to lead a project to evaluate the domestic occurrence of strategic elements in coal, coal-based resources and waste streams from coal use. DOE Funding: $1,204,129. DOE Funding: $1,499,999. DOE Funding: $1,483,787.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2017

During this technical collaboration, researchers at MSU and UDRI will identify cost-effective combinations of resins from Ashland, sizings from Michelman, and carbon fibers from Zoltek that can be used to fabricate prepregs that can be compression-molded into composite parts. —Bryan G. Dods, IACMI CEO.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2023

Lithium carbonate from Thacker Pass will be used in GM’s proprietary Ultium battery cells. Under the agreement, GM will make a $650-million equity investment in Lithium Americas, which represents the largest-yet investment by an automaker to produce battery raw materials.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2016

This new IACMI project will address both of these critical areas through a fundamentally different approach to the manufacturing of carbon fiber composites versus those currently in use today. High cycle time for production of continuous carbon fiber thermoplastic composites increases costs.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It has developed process technology and experience in producing lower carbon intensity, high performance, synthetic graphite targeting the electric vehicle and energy storage sectors. Piedmont Lithium , Tennessee Lithium, $141,680,442. NOVONIX Anode Materials LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NOVONIX Limited, was formed in 2017.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2013

MIT scientists demonstrated two approaches for growing CNTs on carbon fiber without degrading the fiber strength. Researchers at MIT have demonstrated two approaches for producing carbon fibers coated in carbon nanotubes without degrading the underlying fiber’s strength. Credit: ACS, Steiner et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2023

BlueOval SK, a joint venture between SKO and US automaker Ford Motor Company, is building three battery manufacturing plants—one in Tennessee and two others in Kentucky. The IRA intends to aid investment in US domestic energy production and manufacturing, with the aim of reducing carbon emissions by roughly 40% before 2030.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2022

The gigafactory will be powered by 100% renewable energy, supplied by onsite generation and purchased locally from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), ensuring the plant helps drive progress toward decarbonizing the state’s industrial sector.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions compared to similar gasoline-powered vehicles traveling such a distance. GM deliveries to Hertz are projected to increase as GM scales its EV production between 2023 and 2025, driven by the opening of Ultium Cells battery cell plants in Ohio, Tennessee and Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2022

million tonnes (Mt) of contained lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE), and an exploration target ranging between 8-17Mt of LCE. BlueOval SK, the joint venture between SK On and Ford Motor Company, is building three plants in the US —one in Tennessee and two others in Kentucky. They are expected to be operational from 2025.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Novonix is expected to ship synthetic graphite from Tennessee starting in 2025. Third Panasonic EV battery plant in the US is still possible The Japanese energy company aims to reduce the carbon footprint in the entire lithium-ion battery supply chain for electric vehicles by 50% compared to 2022 levels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2020

The projects will feature collaborations with EERE’s Advanced Manufacturing Office on manufacturing reliable and affordable electrolyzers and with EERE’s Vehicle Technologies Office on developing low-cost, high-strength carbon fiber for hydrogen storage tanks. Carbon Composite Optimization Reducing Tank Cost. Hexagon R & D LLC.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2021

NOVONIX’s anode materials business is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where it is increasing capacity to produce 10,000 metric tons per year of synthetic graphite by 2023. This investment is driven by Phillips 66’s Emerging Energy organization, which is tasked with building a lower-carbon business platform.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2023

One key unit is located in Tennessee: Volkswagen’s Innovation Hub in Knoxville is driving applied materials science in collaboration with the University of Tennessee (UT) and Oakridge National Lab (ORNL). This includes the ORNL, of which VWGoA has also established research collaborations. Their focus: paper.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2021

Our FLXdrive locomotive, the world’s first 100-percent battery powered locomotive, has proven its potential to slash carbon emissions by up to 30 percent when operating at 6 MWh. Ultium Cells LLC, GM’s joint venture with LG Energy Solution, is currently constructing battery cell plants in Ohio and Tennessee. But we can’t stop there.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2022

The CAM secured by GM will be used by Ultium Cells LLC, a joint venture between GM and LG Energy Solution, at its battery cell plants in Warren, Ohio; Spring Hill, Tennessee; and Lansing, Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ford Motor Company will build two new massive, environmentally and technologically advanced campuses in Tennessee and Kentucky that will produce the next generation of electric F-Series trucks and the batteries to power future electric Ford and Lincoln vehicles. An all-new $5.6-billion billion mega-campus in Stanton, Tenn. (a

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Baua Electric

APRIL 9, 2024

Starting in 2024, Aqua Metals will deliver sustainably recycled battery materials from its Sierra ARC facility in Reno, Nevada, which 6K Energy will use to manufacture cathode active material (CAM) at its PlusCAM facility in Jackson, Tennessee.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Ultimately, the company expects the projects will support its efforts to provide low-cost and low-carbon energy to the electricity grid. General Fusion is based in Vancouver, Canada, with locations in London, UK, and Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

A Tennessee utility-scale solar farm will be the first in the US to be financed by corporate carbon offsets. In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Scientists in Australia claim they’ve developed “true” bifacial solar cells.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 25, 2024

4 in Tennessee and invest even further in battery production, components, and innovation. 4 sold supports thousands of American jobs and helps advance our goal of a carbon-neutral future,” said Pablo Di Si, President and CEO of Volkswagen Group of America. This shows that we made the right decision to localize [the] assembly of the ID.4

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

million project—one of 13 selected through a DOE initiative focused on addressing engineering challenges for advanced battery materials and devices—will be conducted in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The three-year, $2.2-million

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2018

What we are trying to accomplish is developing a streamlined process where the biomass waste at these refineries can be fractionated to produce lipids for biodiesel, asphalt binder modifier and quality carbon fiber. in Washington State and the University of Tennessee. They will help with technical, economic and material analysis.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Among other expected benefits, initiatives outlined in Ford’s sustainable financing framework are intended to help the company become carbon-neutral no later than 2050, in line with its commitment to the Paris Agreement.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2020

Diakont’s team members for this program includes project leader Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and LifeLast. The project is to develop a cost-effective and efficient smart structural coating deposition system and advanced high-end technology tools to inspect and rehabilitate gas distribution pipelines.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2023

Ford’s BlueOval City EV and battery manufacturing campus in West Tennessee ( earlier post ) begins production in 2025, will be home to Ford’s second-generation electric truck, code-named Project T3, and will be capable of producing 500,000 EV trucks a year at full production. Ford and partner SK On are investing $5.6

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2022

As Ford creates a new EV supply chain that upholds its commitments to sustainability and human rights, the company continues to plan for more than half its global production to be EVs by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality globally no later than 2050. 150,000 F-150 Lightnings for North America.

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