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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

A new program at the University of Michigan will award funds for researchers to accelerate advanced transportation technologies. Alain Piette, technology team manager, Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center. Tony Grover, co-founder and managing director, RPM Ventures. Malhan, advanced research director, Denso.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Ford is the first automaker to test autonomous vehicles at Mcity—the full-scale simulated real-world urban environment at the University of Michigan. —Ryan Eustice, University of Michigan associate professor and principal investigator in Ford’s research collaboration with the university. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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JUNE 2, 2012

In an address at the 2012 Mackinac Policy Conference, Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman Bill Ford said that “ Michigan must become the Silicon Valley of the mobility revolution ” and outlined key public policy areas to help improve the state’s competitiveness and ensure that the state realizes the full benefit of that impending revolution.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Researchers at the University of Michigan have mapped the annual flow of steel in the US, with the goal of achieving a detailed understanding of the flow to target increased material efficiency and the development of the circular economy. Yongxian Zhu, Kyle Syndergaard, and Daniel R. 9b01016.

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JANUARY 12, 2022

A University of Michigan team has shown that a network of aramid nanofibers, recycled from Kevlar, can enable lithium-sulfur batteries to overcome their Achilles heel of cycle life, delivering an estimated 1,000 real-world cycles. Credit: Ahmet Emre, Kotov Lab, University of Michigan. Kotov is also the Joseph B. and Florence V.

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JANUARY 4, 2016

Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed an le air-stable amide-derived N,N,N-Ru(II) complex to catalyze the conversion of ethanol to 1-butanol with high selectivity. A paper on their work is published in the RSC journal Chemical Communications. Kuei-Nin Timothy Tseng, Steve Lin, Jeffrey F. doi: 10.1039/C5CC09913G.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Texas Tech will also provide advanced detection of nuclear reaction products as a resource for ARPA-E LENR Exploratory Topic teams. University of Michigan — Ann Arbor. University of Michigan — Ann Arbor. Systematic Evaluation of Claims of Excess Heat Generation From Deuteration Of Palladium-Nickel Nanocomposites - $1,108,412.

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AUGUST 13, 2017

Michigan State University researchers are experimenting with harvesting seed oil to make biofuels. In a recent study published in the journal The Plant Cell , the researchers show that the chloroplast, where plant photosynthesis occurs, also participates in new ways to provide seed oil precursors. —Kun Wang. Kun Wang, John E.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

A review by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has found that Li-ion battery maker LG Chem Michigan misused funds awarded to it under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act). As a result, up to about $842,000 in reimbursements for labor charges were questioned.

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JULY 31, 2012

Pioneer Natural Resources, an oil and gas exploration and production company, is adding 225 bi-fuel, Westport WiNG natural gas powered Ford F250 Super Duty trucks to its fleet. Earlier post.)

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MARCH 11, 2011

The primary element of one of Michigan’s largest solar power generation systems at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant is now up and running. The system is the result of collaboration between Ford, DTE Energy, Xtreme Power, the city of Wayne and the state of Michigan.

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AUGUST 13, 2010

Ford, Detroit Edison and Xtreme Power are teaming up to establish one of Michigan’s largest solar power generation systems and electric vehicle charging stations at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich. Ford will work with Detroit Edison to install a 500 kW solar photovoltaic panel system at Michigan Assembly.

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JANUARY 9, 2011

Toyota’s new Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC) will be based at the Toyota Technical Center (TTC) in Ann Arbor, Michigan and will involve Toyota researchers and engineers from North America and Japan. The company estimates that it will commit approximately $50 million over the next five years to fund CSRC.

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

New research led by the University of Michigan shows that in the real world, this practice is far less effective than estimated, releasing five times more methane in the US than previously thought. Image credit: Alan Gorchov Negron, University of Michigan and Yulia Chen of Stanford University. Genevieve Plant, Eric A. Kort, Adam R.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

A new University of Michigan study finds that making the switch to all-electric mail-delivery vehicles would lead to far greater reductions in greenhouse gas emissions than previously estimated by the US Postal Service (USPS). Earlier post.). billion for the purchase of zero-emission delivery vehicles and $1.71 Craig, and Gregory A.

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APRIL 25, 2022

Researchers at the University of Michigan, with colleagues from Michigan State University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany, report that high surface area silicon carbide (SiC) w/wo 13 wt. Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America (MBRDNA) contributed funding to this work.

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MAY 10, 2015

The researchers demonstrated that the strategy is able to achieve a smooth combustion mode transition with the net mean effective pressure and the combustion phase fluctuations at the level of stable spark ignition and homogeneous charge compression ignition combustion.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

If only incremental increases in renewable energy resources are introduced across the grid, electrolytic hydrogen will not become an environmentally sustainable solution. He looked at three different resources that forecast the future composition of the US electrical power grid.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

MAHLE Powertrain is investing $4 million in a new powertrain dynamometer facility in Plymouth, Michigan, aimed at accelerating vehicle development as manufacturers continue the shift towards electrified vehicles. —Hugh Blaxill, managing director of MAHLE Powertrain USA.

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MARCH 18, 2023

This funding will help support the Department’s research into the next generation of sustainable, cost-effective bioproducts and bioenergy from domestic biomass resources. The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award $590 million to renew its four existing Bioenergy Research Centers (BRCs).

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APRIL 7, 2016

The University of Michigan is collaborating with IBM to develop and deliver “ data-centric ” supercomputing systems designed to increase the pace of scientific discovery in fields as diverse as aircraft and rocket engine design, cardiovascular disease treatment, materials physics, climate modeling and cosmology.

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JANUARY 31, 2023

GM has secured all the battery material we need to build more than 1 million EVs annually in North America in 2025 and our future production will increasingly draw from domestic resources like the site in Nevada we’re developing with Lithium Americas.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Together, the companies will further define product portfolio scope, manufacturing locations and supporting resources to be provided by each party. Headquartered in Beijing, JJE has technical centers and production facilities in the United States and China including Michigan, Shandong, and Shanghai.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

Q&A with Jon Jacobs of Westwater Resources Everyone in the EV industry is talking about the IRA and the BIL, two sets of federal regulations that include strong incentives for automakers to establish domestic supply chains for EV raw materials and components. Charged : Graphite’s a hot property these days. Tell us about Westwater’s plans.

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MAY 10, 2022

The company’s expert technicians will install the systems at its facilities in Charlotte and Statesville, North Carolina; Springfield, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Dublin, Virginia; and Mineral Wells, West Virginia. Fontaine has modification centers strategically located across the United States.

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JULY 10, 2009

German battery developer fortu PowerCell GmbH will soon begin a search for a west Michigan location, pending approval of state and local incentives, for a battery pack manufacturing facility, according to a statement by Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm. Resources. Zinck et al. fortu PowerCell GmbH ( HBS 9-805-159 ).

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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., Bluecity ($100,000).

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

million grant from the Michigan Institute for Data Science. Development of the system is funded with a $1.4 If the test deployment is successful, the team plans to expand the system across U-M’s campus within a year, to all of Ann Arbor within three years and eventually to the Detroit area as well.

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

New Report Models Actions Needed to Meet Climate Goals.

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MARCH 5, 2022

Researchers at the University of Michigan and Ford Motor Company have conducted a cradle-to-grave life cycle GHG assessment of model year 2020 ICEV, HEV, and BEV sedans, sports utility vehicles (SUVs), and pickup trucks in the United States. Maxwell Woody et al. 17 034031 doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac5142.

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JUNE 21, 2023

Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Western Michigan University (WMU) have enabled standard raised pavement markers to transmit GPS information that helps autonomous driving features function better in remote areas or in bad weather. —Zachary Asher Resources S. Sharma et al.

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DECEMBER 30, 2022

This latest announcement in diversification and expansion follows Graphex’s recent raw material sourcing announcements around the world, including Canada, the US, Brazil, and Tanzania as well as active pursuits of additional resources in Canada, Africa, and Europe.

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AUGUST 19, 2021

Now, researchers from the University of Michigan and Ford report in an open-access paper in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology that automating residential package transport doesn’t influence the greenhouse gas footprint as much as the delivery van’s size and type. Luyao Li, Xiaoyi He, Gregory A. Wallington, and Nicholas J. 0c08213.

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OCTOBER 31, 2009

Researchers from Michigan State University have been awarded $2.5 Researchers from Michigan State University have been awarded $2.5 The wave disc engine, a new implementation of wave rotor technology, was earlier developed by the Michigan State group in collaboration with researchers from the Warsaw Institute of Technology.

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APRIL 9, 2023

Now, researchers at Michigan Technological University have demonstrated a carbonate-superstructured solid fuel cell (CSSFC) in which in situ generation of superstructured carbonate in the porous samarium-doped ceria layer creates a unique electrolyte with ultrahigh ionic conductivity of 0.17 S⋅cm −1 at 550 °C. 2208750119

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

According to data collected by the California Air Resources Board and new sales figures released this week from hybridcars.com and Baum & Associates, a Michigan-based market research firm, Californians bought 102,440 PEVs from December 2010 through August 2014. —California Air Resources Board Chairman Mary D.

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APRIL 11, 2018

The American Center for Mobility is a uniquely purpose-built premiere national facility for mobility and advanced automotive testing and product development focusing on testing, validation and self-certification of connected and automated vehicles and other mobility technologies at the 500-acre historic Willow Run site in Southeast Michigan.

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