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

Green Car Congress

Advanced composites are especially important for progressing clean energy generation and improving the efficiency of the nation’s fleet. Honda R&D Americas, Inc.; IACMI is dedicated to overcoming these barriers by developing low-cost, high-production, energy-efficient manufacturing and recycling processes for composites applications.

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President Obama announces two new public-private manufacturing innovation institutes; new manufacturing innovation institute competition

Green Car Congress

The winning consortium, led by EWI and headquartered in the Detroit-area includes the following members: 34 Companies: ABS; AEM; ALCOA Technology; Boeing; Comau; Easom Automation; EWI; Fabrisonic; Flash Bainite Steel; GE; Honda North American Services; Huys; Infinium; Inc.; ThermoCalc; TIMET; Trumpf, Inc.; UTRC; Wolf Robotics.

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Tale of Two 2,000-mile EV Rural Road Trips

Clean Fleet Report

My goal was to head north to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, then west to Fargo, ND, and back to Detroit via Iowa. Instead, I drove to Cleveland and then back westward to the center of Iowa, where I visited a relative. That was during a comparison arranged by Honda, showing off a prototype electric car in the late 1990s.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Chevrolet S-10 :Jim Coates very clean conversion Chevrolet S-10 :Mark Brueggemanns neat project, and more. Honda Civic :Mike Chanceys conversion. Honda EV+ :Life with the new Honda EV. Chevrolet S-10 :Brian has a new and very nice conversion. Citicar: Paulis restoring a 1976 Citicar Citroen2CV : A2CV becomes 2EV.