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2020 Ford Escape to offer hybrid and PHEV variants

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Ford has revealed the 2020 Escape; the small SUV will make its first public appearance at the New York International Auto Show. FordPass Connect is a standard feature that provides 4G LTE Wi-Fi for up to 10 mobile devices with compatible wireless subscription service. Vehicles are due to reach showrooms this fall. History of Escape.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Remote Area Modular Monitoring for Critical Facilities, $300,000 Embedded Planet, Cleveland, Ohio Simulation Tool for Energy-Efficient Connected and Automated Vehicle Control Development, $600,000 Hyundai America Technical Center, Superior Township, Mich. Louisville, Colo. MetalTek International, Watertown, Wis. Tustin, Calif.

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

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Innovative Weld Solutions; ITW; Lockheed Martin; Luvata; Materion; MesoCoat; MTI; NanoSteel Company; Optomec; Phoenix Integration; PowderMet; RealWeld; RTI International Metals; SaCell; Southwest Research Institute (SWRI); Steel Warehouse Co.; Aspire 3D); International TechneGroup Inc.; ThermoCalc; TIMET; Trumpf, Inc.; New competition.

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Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

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Deep below the Louisville, Ky., With direct funding plus prize money that reached into the millions, DARPA encouraged international collaborations among top academic institutions as well as industry. By the time teams reached the SubT Final Event in the Louisville Mega Cavern, the focus was on autonomy rather than communications.

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NAMII awarding $9M to 15 additive manufacturing projects

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CDI Corporation; Honeywell Aerospace; Pan Computing LLC; Penn State University; United Technologies Research Center; and the University of Louisville). ASM International; Miller/ITW; ThermoAnalytics, Inc.; Byrd Institute; TE Connectivity Ltd.; and RTI International Metals). GE Global Research (3DSim, Inc.;

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Ford Investing $550M to Retool SUV Plant to Produce Focus Small Car and EV

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To produce the vehicles, Ford is converting three truck and SUV plants to car plants—Michigan Assembly, Cuautitlan Assembly in Mexico, which begins building the new Fiesta subcompact early next year; and Louisville (Ky.) Assembly, which will be converted to produce small vehicles from Ford’s global Focus platform beginning in 2011.

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Ford invests $550 in small and electric vehicles

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To produce the vehicles, Ford is converting three truck and SUV plants to car plants - Michigan Assembly, Cuautitlan Assembly in Mexico, which begins building the new Fiesta subcompact early next year; and Louisville Assembly, which will be converted to produce small vehicles from Ford’s global Focus platform beginning in 2011.

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