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AUGUST 24, 2011

Dana Holding Corporation will receive a $2-million grant from the Province of Ontario for the ongoing development and manufacture of lithium-ion battery cooling technologies needed for electric and hybrid-electric vehicles. Among these vehicles are the Chevrolet Volt, Ford Focus EV, and Tesla Roadster Sport.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Ford Motor Company and Progress Energy are working together to help prepare the Research Triangle area of North Carolina for the operation of electric vehicles. Progress Energy is developing a charging station pilot program as part of a $200 million smart grid grant it received from the US Department of Energy.

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AUGUST 6, 2014

million hours on Titan to a project led by ORNL with Ford and Convergent Science as co-investigators. ORNL/Ford/Convergent. Stoyanov (ORNL); Brad VanDerWege (Ford Motor Company); Daniel Lee (Convergent Science, Inc); Eric Pomraning (Convergent Science, Inc); Keith Richards (Convergent Science, Inc); and P. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 13, 2011

The Ford Motor Company Fund and the Georgia Institute of Technology are partnering on the US’ first conversion of a traditional school bus to a hydraulic hybrid vehicle that runs on recycled biofuel. Atlanta Public Schools (APS) donated the bus for the project.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Ford Motor Company, working with academic researchers in Canada and one of its suppliers, has developed a wheat straw-reinforced plastic; the natural fiber-based plastic contains 20% wheat straw bio-filler. First application is on the 2010 Ford Flex’s third-row interior storage bins. Wheat Straw Bio-Filled Polypropylene.

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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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OCTOBER 23, 2014

Currently, Asplundh has two Ford F-650 trucks powered by ROUSH CleanTech propane autogas fuel systems. A North Carolina State University grant for Clean Fuel Advanced Technology helped fund one of Asplundh’s vehicles.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Results from a study by a team from Carnegie Mellon University, Ford and Drexel University suggest that Chinese consumers are more receptive to adopting battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) than their American counterparts, regardless of subsidies. The study is published in the journal Transportation Research Part A.

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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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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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AUGUST 4, 2022

He left there in 1966 to join the University of Cambridge as an assistant director of research. He earned his bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering in 1958 from the University of Bristol , in England. He worked at the university at the time of his death. He was granted 107 patents in Korea and 46 U.S.

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OCTOBER 31, 2012

In a new study, a team from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Ford Research and Advanced Engineering set out to determine the optimal mix for the fleet of mid-size personal vehicles in the US—while maintaining current driving patterns—with the goals of minimizing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) or cost. Traut et al.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

million) in grants to 16 collaborative research and development projects that focus on achieving significant cuts in CO 2 emissions for vehicle-centric technologies in low carbon vehicles. Amberjac Projects Ltd (lead), Fen Technology Ltd, University of Sheffield. Ashwoods Automotive (lead), Bristol University, MCT Reman.

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OCTOBER 5, 2015

The United States Advanced Battery Consortium LLC (USABC), a collaborative organization of FCA US LLC, Ford Motor Company and General Motors, recently awarded $1.64 million contract to NOHMs (Nano Organic Hybrid Materials) Technologies in Rochester, New York, for the development of electrolytes for automotive lithium-ion battery applications.

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JUNE 20, 2016

The United States Advanced Battery Consortium LLC (USABC), a collaborative organization of FCA US LLC, Ford Motor Company and General Motors, awarded a $4-million contract to SiNode Systems Inc. SiNode Systems is pleased to be a recipient of this grant and is proud to contribute to USABC’s battery technology research and development programs.

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JUNE 19, 2014

Lightning Hybrids tested two vehicles: a 2013 Ford E450 6.8-liter Published drive cycles tested—and the results—included: Orange County Bus: Developed by West Virginia University to replicate suburban transit bus drive cycles, one of two drive cycles used by CARB for hybrid certification.

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AUGUST 7, 2022

In partnership with key universities, four companies—Bluecity, GEKOT Inc., GEKOT Inc, has partnered with Razor USA and Oakland University (OU) to help address this need. GEKOT will integrate its technical solutions package into Razor electric scooters soon to be deployed on the campus of Oakland University.

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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. Following World War II, he pursued a doctorate in physics at the University of Chicago. Stanley Whittingham.

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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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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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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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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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JANUARY 14, 2022

TU Berlin ] Cassie Blue navigates around furniture treated as obstacles in the Ford Robotics Building at the University of Michigan. This super cool soft robotic finger from TU Berlin is able to read braille with astonishing accuracy by using sound as a sensor. [ All the clips in this video are 1x on purpose to show Cassie's motion.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have shown that a vehicle navigation tool they created can cut electric vehicle energy use up to 51%. The researchers outlined their findings in a report to the California Energy Commission, which paid for the study with a $95,000 grant.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2013

An analysis by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University of parking and charging availability for electric vehicles in the US has concluded that limited availability of dedicated residential parking—and hence charging opportunities—is a significant barrier to mainstream electric vehicle adoption.

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AUGUST 2, 2022

The labs are currently housed at the Nevada Center for Applied Research (NCAR) located at the University of Nevada Reno (UNR).

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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. JCS has partnered with Ford Motor Company on battery cell manufacturing, pack and system development, and integration capability. and LG Chem-Compact Power Inc.

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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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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

His presentation won him an engineering scholarship to Duke University. Gerhardt and Martin currently work with Appalachian State University and Alamance Community College. All four men felt that LEVs could eventually be one of the most important forms of personal transportation, and had already been supporting that cause.

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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. The facility has attracted a consortium of more than 40 private and public sector partners, including Ford, Dow Chemical and Volkswagen of America.

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AUGUST 5, 2009

billion in grants to US-based manufacturers to produce batteries and their components and to expand battery recycling capacity; $500 million in grants to US-based manufacturers to produce electric drive components for vehicles, including electric motors, power electronics, and other drive train components; and. Ford Motor Company.

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OCTOBER 2, 2022

In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” Oasense’s team has been granted several patents related to their device, the first filed by Schneider in 2016.

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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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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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OCTOBER 13, 2009

Clemson University researchers were recently awarded a $470,363 National Science Foundation grant to study making plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) more efficient through integration with a Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) ( “IntelliDrive” ) system. The IntelliDrive taxonomy. Click to enlarge. Mashrur Chowdhury.

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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 million) grant as part of a £7,270,695 (US$12.3 The jointly funded government and industry APC will invest around £1 billion (US$1.7

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