Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

At an event in Washington, President Obama announced that the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (SMLC) will lead the new Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute, in partnership with the Department of Energy. The Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute is the ninth manufacturing hub awarded by the Obama Administration.

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JULY 21, 2020

The projects will feature collaborations with EERE’s Advanced Manufacturing Office on manufacturing reliable and affordable electrolyzers and with EERE’s Vehicle Technologies Office on developing low-cost, high-strength carbon fiber for hydrogen storage tanks. TOPIC 1: ELECTROLYZER MANUFACTURING R&D. Project title. 3M Company.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $19 million for 13 projects in traditionally fossil-fuel-producing communities across the country to support production of rare earth elements and critical minerals essential to the manufacturing of batteries, magnets, and other components important to the clean energy economy.

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JULY 28, 2023

Calumet Specialty Products Partners manufactures, formulates and markets a diversified slate of specialty branded products and renewable fuels to customers across a broad range of consumer-facing and industrial markets. Calumet is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana and operates twelve facilities throughout North America.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2012

GE researchers, in partnership with Chart Industries—a global manufacturer of standard and custom-engineered products and systems for cryogenic and heat transfer applications—and scientists at the University of Missouri, have been awarded $1.8 Sketch of the targeted at-home unit. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2012

based provider of energy-enabled system solutions and energy storage products for commercial, industrial and government agency customers. Based in Chicago, Wanxiang America has been in the automotive and industrial markets in the US since 1994 and currently has more than 3,000 employees in the US.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2013

based provider of energy-enabled system solutions and energy storage products for commercial, industrial and government agency customers. A123’s joint venture with Shanghai Automotive. Excluded from the asset purchase agreement with Wanxiang is A123’s Ann Arbor, Mich. million by Navitas Systems, a Woodridge, Ill.-based

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

General Motors (GM) has shut down a manufacturing plant in Kansas and laid off the site’s roughly 2,000 workers after the automaker stated plans to do so last week. The UAW strikes have targeted key manufacturing plants, asking workers to leave the premises without any notice to affect the automakers’ larger supply chains.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

As a leading specialty battery manufacturer with a legacy of supplying US military power needs, EaglePicher is poised to assist the defense industrial base by providing a timely, reliable supply of Li-Ion materials and products. Earlier post.). EaglePicher was selected as the sole contractor for Phase II of the LIMA program.

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Teslarati

JUNE 2, 2022

“While the global semiconductor chip shortage remains an issue for the industry, our inventory continues to turn at record rates with nearly 50 percent of our retail sales coming from previously placed orders,” Andrew Frick, VP of Sales, Distribution, and Trucks for Ford Blue, said. Ford saw a 4.5 percent decrease in retail sales.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2013

facilities in Michigan, Massachusetts and Missouri; its manufacturing operations in China; and its equity interest in Shanghai Advanced Traction Battery Systems Co., In addition, A123 will continue operating its existing manufacturing facilities in China. A123’s joint venture with Shanghai Automotive. Transportation.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

. “Trusting that a charging station will work and knowing that if there is an issue it will be fixed in a timely manner is essential to EV drivers and paramount to the success of the industry,” Kameale C. billion investment in a Greensboro, North Carolina manufacturing facility. Terry, ChargerHelp! Hyundai announced a $5.5

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

The transaction makes MBP the majority owner of Dow Kokam, which includes the Midland Battery Park in Michigan and the Lee’s Summit facility in Missouri. Dow Kokam’s Midland Battery Park includes one of the highest capacity, large format lithium-ion battery manufacturing plants in the world.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2009

Founded in 1932, Steelweld is a manufacturer and distributor of truck bodies and related equipment. The company designs and manufactures bodies to meet specific customer needs with thousands of work-proven units furnished to telecommunication, public utility, construction, service, and cable television industries.

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Teslarati

JUNE 2, 2022

Missouri: $95 million investment and 1,100 union jobs for a third shift at Kansas City Assembly Plant to increase production of the Transit, America’s best-selling commercial van, and the all-new E-Transit electric van. The investment will add an additional 6,200 UAW jobs to three of its factories located in the midwest.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

Missouri University of Science and Technology Reduce Comminution Energy and Improve Energy Relevant Mineral Yield using Carbon-Negative Oxalatization Reactions ($2,045,715). It will enable the use of unconventional mineral sources for mining of energy-relevant critical metals. Columbia University.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Smith Electric Vehicles US (SEVUS) will finalize the purchase of its United Kingdom-based parent company, Smith Electric Vehicles (UK), creating the world’s largest manufacturer of commercial electric vehicles. This sale signals a bright future for the electric commercial vehicle industry.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2009

When Smith Electric Vehicles US Corp (SEV-US) announced on 27 March its selection of Kansas City, Missouri as the site for its US assembly plant for electric commercial vehicles ( earlier post ), SEV-US CEO Bryan Hansel named Kokam America (also based in Missouri) as the electric vehicle company’s battery “ partner of choice. ”

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Staples currently has 53 all-electric trucks, manufactured by Missouri-based Smith Electric Vehicles, in use in several American cities. Trucks with internal-combustion engines averaged 10.14 miles per gallon, compared to 11.56 miles per gallon for hybrid trucks, while the electric-only trucks averaged 0.8 kilowatt-hours per mile.

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DECEMBER 24, 2015

They also developed a scalable manufacturing method that could pave the way for more high-performance lightweight metals. —Xiaochun Li, the principal investigator on the research and Raytheon Chair in Manufacturing Engineering at UCLA. Silicon carbide is an ultra-hard ceramic commonly used in industrial cutting blades.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2016

Such material is an essential component in a large number of industries, including automotive, aerospace, electronics, marine, biomedical, packaging and defense. The group also acknowledges contributions from the National Security Campus, Missouri (formerly Kansas City Plant) where some of the early aging experiments were performed.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the United States, the Eva-Tone Company of Deerfield, Illinois became the leading manufacturer of vinyl “sound sheets” (their preferred trademark) by the mid-1960s and promoted their use in “mailing pieces, financial reports, product instruction, sales training, and packaging inserts.”

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Kokam America, a Lee’s Summit, Missouri-based corporation formed in October 2005, has supplied battery sustainment to the US Department of Defense with advanced battery products developed, designed and patented by Kokam Co., Separately, Dow Kokam LLC acquired substantially all of the assets of Kokam America Inc., in South Korea.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

This includes developing advanced manufacturing and process technologies for advanced battery materials, advanced electrode and cell fabrication manufacturing, and integrated wide band gap power modules for next generation plug-in vehicles. Ultra-Light Door Design, Manufacturing and Demonstration (Area of Interest 2).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2009

Kentucky was selected over Texas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. Under the federal stimulus plan, the Obama administration has set aside $2 billion for electric drive vehicle battery and component manufacturing projects. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

Other universities, industries, and national laboratories will serve as collaborators and research partners. University of Missouri, Columbia - $541,286. University of Missouri, Columbia - $703,064. Almost half the projects and more than half the funding is allocated to Gen IV-related projects. University of Florida - $894,042.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

His first job was designing microwave radio systems in Yugoslavia for a radio equipment design and manufacturing startup. He left the company in 1986 and founded Communications Research, a consulting service for manufacturers, in Palo Alto, Calif. Axelrod worked as an engineer for a number of companies in various industries.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

A US-China task force will create a multi-year roadmap to identify R&D needs as well as issues related to the manufacture, introduction and use of electric vehicles. The roadmap will be made widely available to assist not just US and Chinese developers, but also the global automotive industry. 21 st Century Coal.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2015

The production of the graphene-nanoparticle hybrids using industrial processes such as roll-to-roll manufacturing continues to be a technical challenge. This implies that there is a synergistic interaction between the graphene and nanoparticles. Tour is the T.T.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Joseph, Missouri, Gevo is demonstrating the viability of its technology for retrofitting existing ethanol plants to make biobutanol. announced a licensing agreement with Cargill that will further enable the manufacture of renewable hydrocarbons for fuels and chemicals from cellulosic crop sources. Gevo, Inc., Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2009

We feel the greatest opportunity to have a major impact on the electric vehicle industry is through fleet operators who utilize commercial vehicles in a depot-based delivery model. The company will receive close to $3 million in job training funds and other incentives from the state of Missouri and Kansas City.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The Department of Energy is working with industry, universities, national laboratories, and other groups to develop technologies capable of harnessing these resources to generate environmentally sustainable, cost-competitive power. The project will assess the cost of manufacturing these systems at various scales. DOE Funding: $160,000.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2009

Gevo’s commercialization approach includes retro-fitting existing ethanol facilities to produce isobutanol hydrocarbon products readily used in the refining and chemical industry. Joseph, Missouri at ICM’s St. Later this summer, Gevo will bring a 1 million gallon per year semi-works plant in St. Joseph, Mo.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

SEV US has commenced production of the Smith Newton electric truck platform at its assembly facility in Kansas City, Missouri, and currently has an order book of 255 trucks. From an industry standpoint, we are seeing delivery fleet and utility vehicle operators move to smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles.

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APRIL 16, 2009

million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding to 13 projects to accelerate the commercialization and deployment of fuel cells and to create jobs in fuel cell manufacturing, installation, maintenance, and support services. million in cost-share funding from industry participants in addition to the Federal money. Louis, MO).

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APRIL 19, 2009

must create a strong electric car industry. So far, Asian manufacturers are leaving U.S. car industry hinges on cutting-edge battery technology. auto manufacturers. Battery technology has been the domain of consumer electronics manufacturers, and that industry migrated out of America decades ago. government.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

These projects, selected through a highly competitive process by the Department of Energy (DOE), are intended to accelerate the development of US manufacturing capacity for batteries and electric drive components as well as the deployment of electric drive vehicles. Industry officials expect that this $2.4 DOE Award ($mil.).

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