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GM and MP Materials enter long-term supply agreement to scale rare earth magnet sourcing and production in US

Green Car Congress

This strategic collaboration seeks to accelerate the restoration of the US rare earth supply chain at commercial scale with high resiliency and environmental sustainability. —Shilpan Amin, GM vice president, Global Purchasing and Supply Chain. MP Materials is the largest producer of rare earth materials in the Western Hemisphere.

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VinFast Still Kicking and Planning to Show Vehicles at CES

The Truth About Cars

Despite the brand initially looking like another automotive startup doomed to failure, it’s managed to outlast much of the competition and continues to express a desire to break into the North American market. Tran Mai Hoa, VinFast’s Deputy CEO of Sales and Marketing. But it’s plotting to expand its U.S.

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Edeniq and Flint Hills Resources Renewables establish joint development relationship for ethanol

Green Car Congress

Flint Hills will also conduct commercial testing and scale-up of Edeniq’s Pathway platform. This collaboration with Flint Hills Resources Renewables demonstrates our mission of accelerating low-cost cellulosic ethanol to market. —Brian Thome, president and CEO of Edeniq.

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

Cars That Think

Two days after the launch, Goddard received its first MSS image, showing the Dallas–Fort Worth area. (In Today’s commercial high-resolution satellites can have a resolution of 30 centimeters. In the false-color image, shown at top, reds are vegetation and grays and whites are urban or rocky land.)

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

Green Car Congress

Team partners will purchase a total of 191 commercially available light- to heavy-duty alternative-fuel and advanced-technology vehicles. The project will deploy refueling stations and alternative fuel vehicles in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The project also includes construction of a B20 station.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

We would like to take this opportunity to report on our efforts to demonstrate to automakers that a market for plug-in hybrid vehicles exists in the United States today. Soft” fleet orders are a critical component of the Plug-In Partners goal of demonstrating to automakers that a market exists for flexible fuel plug-in hybrids.