Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2016

The Thomson Reuters analysts found that there are a number of other organizations innovating in this area, including some potential surprises such as Amazon (with 14 unique inventions); Boeing (35); IBM (34); Microsoft (10); Qualcomm (24); Samsung (107); and Southeast University in China (24).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2023

The US Department of Transportation has awarded a $15-million grant to renew the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT), based in Ann Arbor and led by the University of Michigan. million over its first six years, CCAT is one of 10 regional USDOT University Transportation Centers nationwide.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 7, 2024

More local governments across Michigan see EV charging as a relevant issue, but the number is still fairly low, according to a new University of Michigan survey, and those interested in EV charging see cost as a barrier.

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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. Purdue University.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

In addition to testing two plug-in hybrid Ford Escapes, the company owns seven other plug-in electric vehicles for research purposes including the Southeast’s first plug-in hybrid electric utility bucket truck, and it is expanding its partnership efforts with the auto industry to test additional vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2012

General Motors, which has a long history of crash test dummy design, is leading current research on the potential for global auto industry use of a test dummy that would help automakers and safety experts better understand how crash victims are hurt in rear impacts. BioRid Final Report , Chalmers University, 1999.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2014

ALMMII is a public-private partnership led by Ohio-based manufacturing technology nonprofit EWI, the University of Michigan and Ohio State University. The last tenant of the 107,000-square-foot property was Mexican Industries, which made plastic moldings for the auto industry until filing for bankruptcy in 2001.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Although there’s a common narrative that a transition to electric vehicles will reduce jobs in the auto industry, the opposite is actually true! A University of Michigan study published earlier this year found that automotive assembly. In a comment thread on an article yesterday, a reader made an important point.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2019

LeMond and Deakin University are teamed to commercialize this innovative technology which enables reductions of 75% and 70% in capex and energy consumption per kilo of output respectively. million of seed capital from individual and institutional investors, including Deakin University.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2018

The Ohio State University has taken first place in the final year of EcoCAR 3, an Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition, sponsored by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and General Motors Co. Industry and government officials judged the presentations. This is OSU’s fourth consecutive win. The powertrain components included a 2.0-liter

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

First, we had to educate a Forbes columnist (and oil-industry consultant) about how the auto industry works. Now, it's time to offer some gentle guidance to all those journalists who covered last month's release of a study from the Norwegian University of Science and.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2019

Purdue University researchers are developing pre-chamber technology for automobiles to replace conventional spark plugs and enable more reliable ultra-lean combustion. The auto industry is feeling the pressure to optimize these engines because of the competition from electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2011

The project calls for the “EASYBAT” Consortium to develop off-the-shelf automotive grade components and interfaces that enable the auto industry to easily integrate battery switching technology into their electric car platforms. EASYBAT is the first project for switchable battery electric cars approved by the Commission.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2009

Canadian government programs that offer rebates to hybrid vehicle buyers are failing to produce environmental benefits commensurate with the cost, according to a study by researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Chandra et al. The Canadian government offered hybrid rebates during 2007-2008.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The distribution of California’s clean vehicle rebates across different socioeconomic groups has been uneven, with higher income groups more likely to receive rebates, according to a new study by a team from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2009

A new report released by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute ( UMTRI ) analyzes critical choices faced by automakers and finds that broad, deep, fast change is necessary for success in the context of the worst financial crisis in the history of the domestic automobile industry. Source: McManus and Kleinbaum.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Audi, ERL and Stanford University engineers collaborated on the development of the Autonomous Audi TTS Pikes Peak car, which successfully completed the challenging 12.42-mile California has shown time and time again that it is a global technological leader and today marks the beginning of a new era for the auto industry.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2021

A new study focused on the auto industry finds that tightening emissions standards not only fails to curtail on-road emissions, but actually increases the likelihood of non-compliance by automakers. This phenomenon isn’t limited to the auto industry. You have to hit the score to make it. —Kejia Hu.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

He was raised in China and completed his education in engineering physics at the University of British Columbia, the University of California at Berkeley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as a Sloan Fellow. Purcell, Jr., Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The LCVTP involves seven industry and research partners: Jaguar Land Rover, Tata Motors, Zytek, Ricardo, MIRA, WMG (formerly Warwick Manufacturing Group) at the University of Warwick and Coventry University. The need for completely new components, sourced from new partners and assembled into new modules is forging new alliances.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2015

Researchers at Clemson University have determined that a reliable, less intrusive way to detect fatigue or drowsiness in a driver is to monitor vehicle behavior rather than the biometrics of the person behind the wheel. The simulator tested volunteer drivers for about 20 minutes on a 15–mile course that included nine curves.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The University of Michigan is entering two separate agreements with Chinese institutions targeting automated and connected vehicles. million research agreement with the Chongqing Sokon Industry Group establishes the University of Michigan-Sokon Research Center in the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering. Second, a $2.5-million

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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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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

While the auto industry will never eliminate every potential driver distraction, we can develop new ways to keep driver attention and awareness where it needs to be—on the road ahead. These included the funding of two university research programs in addition to the DAR-V new-concept research vehicle. —Chuck Gulash.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

TriboForm Engineering , a spin-out from the University of Twente in The Netherlands, introduced its TriboForm software at Triboforum 2016 , a triennial industry conference. Director and founder Jan Harmen Wiebenga started TriboForm in 2013 with his collaborator Johan Hol during their doctoral research at the University of Twente.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2016

The two will partner to develop an embedded, end-to-end parking solution for the auto industry. Atlanta-based Parkmobile is the largest provider of mobile payments for on- and off-street parking and mobility-related services for municipalities, universities, commercial operators and transit facilities in the US.

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Teslarati

JUNE 9, 2023

General Motors and Ford hold a significant market share of the United States auto industry. Global policies, market, and investor trends all point to BEVs as a mainstay in the global auto industry. Electrify America uses CCS connectors and charging ports. market share in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Engineers at The Ohio State University have developed a new welding technique—Vaporized Foil Actuator Welding (VFAW)—that consumes 80% less energy than a common welding technique, yet creates bonds that are 50% stronger. A diagram showing vaporized foil actuator welding, a technique developed at The Ohio State University.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Local Universities. Provide campus charging and free parking (10 distributed charging locations); Commit/fund university fleet purchases (5 high-profile vehicles). The Chevy Volt is truly coming to life, but preparing the market for electric vehicles also requires capable partners from outside the auto industry.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

This month, the Ford European Research & Innovation Center in Aachen, Germany, and the Technology and Innovation Management Institute of RWTH Aachen University will launch the Personal Mobility Experience Innovation project. This can be a threat or an opportunity.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

The way cars are used here, the ways in which cars interact with the environment, the way in which human beings reside in urban centers in China are profoundly going to seed the development of the auto industry in every other part of the world. Private sector. Pure electric passenger car. Zhixin Wu. A perspective on the US.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The University of California, Davis, and the China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC) have entered a new agreement to work together to help speed the commercialization of plug-in and fuel cell electric cars in China.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2022

Rice University chemists working with researchers at the Ford Motor Company are turning plastic parts from end-of-life vehicles into graphene via the university’s flash Joule heating process ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, FCA US LLC, and Nemak , a specialist in the production of high complex aluminum components for the automotive industry such as cylinder heads and engine blocks, are partnering to create lightweight powertrain materials that will help the auto industry meet the mandated target of 54.5

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

For the ADEPT project, the consortium comprises CPT, the European Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (EALABC), Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies, Ford and the University of Nottingham. Vehicle electrification and in particular mild hybridization of a conventional powertrain at 48V is a rapid growth area for the automotive industry.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Its primary clients come from the auto industry, which Diess is also intimately familiar with, making him a good candidate for chairman. Just two of its products already make Infineon a strong contender in today’s auto industry, which is just starting to embrace technologically advanced electric vehicles.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 20, 2024

Like 40 years ago, 1984, when Maruti came into India, it changed the auto industry. Quoting a famous movie dialogue, Jindal said, “There is a saying in Hindi, that when you ask for something from your heart, the whole universe comes together to make it come true. And then COVID hit and plans changed.

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