Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Asplundh, an international provider of vegetation management services to utilities and municipalities, is one of the first in its industry to adopt propane autogas for some of the medium-duty trucks in its fleet. Currently, Asplundh has two Ford F-650 trucks powered by ROUSH CleanTech propane autogas fuel systems.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2013

Ford Motor Company is developing a new form of manufacturing technology—rapid freeform sheet metal forming—that has the potential to reduce costs and delivery time for sheet metal parts needed in smaller quantities. million US Department of Energy grant to advance next-generation, energy-efficient manufacturing processes.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2010

Ford Motor Company, moving to create a center of excellence in Michigan for vehicle electrification, is investing $135 million to design, engineer and produce key components for the company’s next-generation hybrid-electric vehicles. Ford’s Rawsonville Plant in Ypsilanti, Mich.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2009

The Commonwealth of Kentucky, the University of Kentucky (UK) and University of Louisville (U of L) are partnering with the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory to establish a national Battery Manufacturing R&D Center to help develop and deploy a domestic supply of advanced battery technologies for vehicle applications.

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Teslarati

MARCH 7, 2022

Prescott spent just one year with Ford as an engineer before leaving to pursue a law degree at Georgetown University. Prescott then returned to Ford for ten years, before leaving to join Tesla in 2017. Prescott left Tesla last April after just under four years to join Luminar as the company’s Chief Legal Officer.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Researchers from the University of Bath Powertrain and Vehicle Research Centre (PVRC) in the UK have received a total of £3.2 An EPSRC (Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Funding) grant of £2 million (US$3.2 An EPSRC (Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Funding) grant of £2 million (US$3.2 million (US$5.1

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

The program is a strategic partnership between Coulomb and Ford, General Motors and smart USA. The $37 million ChargePoint America program is made possible by a $15-million grant funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the Transportation Electrification Initiative administered by the Department of Energy.

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Cars That Think

JULY 13, 2023

Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin , authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. He and his colleagues were recently granted a U.S. His third, lithium iron phosphate, is now one of the most popular battery chemistries in the automotive industry.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2022

Michigan will enable four new mobility services to help address challenges across the state related to sustainable transit, roadway safety, parking and staffing shortages in the service industry. In partnership with key universities, four companies—Bluecity, GEKOT Inc., Mouvit ($100,000).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2010

Coulomb is working with Ford, Chevrolet and smart USA, all of whom have announced plans to introduce EVs in the Bay Area. and Washington DC and is a strategic partnership between Coulomb and three leading automobile makers: Ford, Chevrolet and Smart USA. Sacramento, Calif., the San Jose/San Francisco Bay Area, Bellevue/Redmond, Wash.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2010

Coulomb Technologies, in partnership with Ford, Chevrolet and smart USA, will provide 4,600 free home and public ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations for electric vehicles throughout the United States through the ChargePoint America program. Second, the regions themselves had to write a letter to support the grant proposal.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Jaguar Land Rover (lead company), Ford Motor Company, IAV (UK), CPT, BP, University of Nottingham, Imperial College London. Plug-in Car Grant. The Government also set out the eligibility criteria for its Plug-in Car Grant. The level of the Plug-In-Car Grant has been agreed until 31 March 2012.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2013

Officials from DOE, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Ford Motor Company, and Dow Chemical launched the facility. Ford Motor Company. University of Texas at Austin. Earlier post.) Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative. Lead organization. Description. Funding request. Colorado School of Mines.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

Industry officials expect that this $2.4 billion in cost-share from the award winners, will result directly in the creation tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the US battery and auto industries. Companies and universities in Michigan are receiving more than $1 billion of the grants. Ford Motor Company.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2022

The labs are currently housed at the Nevada Center for Applied Research (NCAR) located at the University of Nevada Reno (UNR). With this expansion into our fifth laboratory within the NCAR at UNR, we can now perform all of these operations within a single facility, further accelerating our path forward.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2014

The SSI study captures 12 different PEV models from eight vehicle manufacturers, including GM (Chevrolet Volt); Nissan (LEAF); Tesla (Model S); Ford (Focus EV, C-Max Energi and Fusion Energi); Honda (Fit EV and Accord PHEV); Toyota (Prius Plug-in and RAV4 EV); Mitsubishi (i-MiEV); and Daimler (Smart Fortwo ED). —Cahill et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2009

The state refundable tax credits will help the companies in their quest for some of the $2 billion in federal grants for advanced-battery research and development. Today marks a defining moment for Michigan's future as we see a new industry begin to take root and grow new jobs. KD Advanced Battery Group LLC (KD). Earlier post.).

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Electric Auto Association

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

His presentation won him an engineering scholarship to Duke University. It was like the early days of the automobile industry when everything was so scattered,” Smith explained. Gerhardt and Martin currently work with Appalachian State University and Alamance Community College.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2014

million) of which has come from the Technology Strategy Board grant. Dearman is working with MIRA, Air Products, Productiv, The Manufacturing Technology Centre, CENEX and TRL, bringing together expertise in the Dearman system, industrial gases, ICEs, vehicle systems, legislation and standards and manufacturing. million (US$5.46

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2014

A new study of factors influencing fleet managers’ adoption of electric vehicles has found that testing new technologies was the strongest driver of initial EV adoption, followed by lowering environmental impacts; government grants; and improving the organization’s public image.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Tesla currently handles the majority of the industry’s remote software recalls, but it would soon not be the only one. Ford has been rolling out updates called “Power-Ups” to the Mustang Mach-E as well. . Credit: Reuters Graphics. However, the issue was simply addressed through firmware release 2021.43.101.1

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2014

UK Business Secretary Vince Cable recently announced the first four automotive technology projects to be funded by the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) ( earlier post ) with grants totaling £30.3 The jointly funded government and industry APC will invest around £1 billion (US$1.7 million) grant as part of a £7,270,695 (US$12.3

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The Brazilian government’s dedication to the ethanol industry declined and incentives given by the government wore off, causing hydrous ethanol-fueled vehicle production to decline in the late 1980s to early 1990s. The Model T Ford, which debuted in 1908, was originally designed to operate on alcohol. Earlier GCC post.] Conclusion.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

In 2013, worldwide fuel cell industry sales surpassed $1 billion for the first time, reaching $1.3 Although early markets such as stationary power and material handling account for the bulk of sales, DOE noted that the fuel cell industry made “tremendous progress” in the light-duty transportation sector in 2013. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The rapid development of generative AI technologies over the last two years, from deepfakes to large language models, has threatened upheavals in many industries. Cass: So a lot of industries are being affected by generative AI. And I’m going to name some others like Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Harrison Ford, Meg Ryan like this.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The drone industry alone was estimated at US $100 billion in 2020, and autonomous systems are already driving significantly more value across other domains. This is not to say that researchers are ignoring security — after all, security infrastructure and tools are a multi-billion dollar industry. Gartner coined the term.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

Funds for these projects—which span areas as diverse as a new crossover valve for the split-cycle Tour Engine ( earlier post ) to a new solar thermal storage device capable of integration with utility scale solar thermal power plants—come from Commission’s Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) program. C/e Solutions, Inc.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

The Chevrolet Volt and the Nissan Leaf will lead the way, with others manufacturers including Ford, Mitsubishi, Toyota, and Tesla planning to introduce their electric cars sometime between 2011 and 2012. billion in stimulus grants to the industry. Late this year, a new wave of electric vehicles will begin to arrive on the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Researchers at Brunel University in the UK, led by Professor Hua Zhao, Head of Mechanical Engineering and Director, Centre for Advanced Powertrain and Fuels (CAPF), are investigating optimizing the performance of controlled autoignition (CAI) combustion in a four-valve camless gasoline direct injection engine running in a two-stroke cycle.

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

The first was that there’s been some great building automation systems, energy management systems developed for large commercial and industrial customers—Siemens, Johnson Controls, Schneider. The Ford Lightning came out with bidirectional capability, and [Rivian, Hyundai and Kia plan to go bidirectional]. We don’t have to wait for it.

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Charged EVs

MARCH 1, 2024

AMPECO has a global footprint—it has offices in England and France, and is rapidly expanding in the US—but I confess I was a bit surprised to find out how knowledgeable and insightful CEO Orlin Radev and Chief Revenue Officer Stefan Ivanov turned out to be about the global EV charging industry.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 1, 2024

AMPECO has a global footprint—it has offices in England and France, and is rapidly expanding in the US—but I confess I was a bit surprised to find out how knowledgeable and insightful CEO Orlin Radev and Chief Revenue Officer Stefan Ivanov turned out to be about the global EV charging industry.

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

In our latest blog post, EVmatch advisor Jeff Pickett takes a deep dive into the landmark bill, looking at what the IRA means for climate change mitigation and the EV industry. Let’s dig into the specifics of what it means for the country, the planet, the EV industry and, perhaps of greatest interest to you, your wallet.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Earlier this year, a C30 liquid-fueled microturbine was successfully integrated into a Ford S-Max people carrier in the United Kingdom by Langford Performance Engineering Ltd. DOE and BIRD Grants. Earlier post.). —Darren Jamison. Capstone Flexible Fuel Microturbine. The two-year project will total almost $3.8

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Currently, there are some industrial facilities that use battery swapping to replenish the energy stores of electric forklifts. Like shopping malls for example, or very nearly any manufacturer or industrial consumer. If every car accepts 2 or 4 or 6 of these universal packs then true economies of scale can kick in in their manufacture.

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