Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Ford, in conjunction with the University of Michigan and State Farm, unveiled a Ford Fusion Hybrid automated research vehicle that will be used to make progress on future autonomous driving and other advanced technologies. The Fusion Hybrid research vehicle builds on driver-in-control studies conducted in Ford’s VIRTTEX driving simulator.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2019

liter EcoDiesel V-6 is rated at a best-in-class 480 lb.-ft. The upgrades build on the EcoDiesel V-6’s previous success, the attributes and performance of which made it a winner of “Wards 10 Best Engines” for three consecutive years (2014, 2015, 2016). The third generation of the turbocharged 3.0-liter In the 2020 Ram 1500, the 3.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2016

The services will be accessed using enhanced mobility and connectivity technologies from Ford vehicles. Those challenges take us to remote areas where we can use advanced vehicle and connectivity technologies to change people’s lives and make the world a better place. —Bill Ford, executive chairman. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Obama also launched a competition for a new manufacturing innovation institute to build US strength in manufacturing advanced composites, the first of four new competitions to be launched this year. Lightweight And Modern Metals Manufacturing. ThermoCalc; TIMET; Trumpf, Inc.; UTRC; Wolf Robotics. UTRC; Wolf Robotics. New competition.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

liter EcoBoost four-cylinder offers projected best-in-class horsepower per liter and best-in-class torque per liter, generating 275 hp (205 kW) at 5,500 rpm and 300 lb-ft (407 N·m) of torque at 3,000 rpm, according to preliminary test data. Other engines in Ford’s EcoBoost family are the 1.0-liter liter three-cylinder; 1.5-liter,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2009

Ford Motor Company is investing $550 million to transform its Michigan Assembly Plant into a flexible manufacturing complex that will build Ford’s next-generation Focus global small car along with a new battery-electric version of the Focus for the North American market. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2015

At CES, Ford CEO Mark Fields announced “Ford Smart Mobility”—a plan to use innovation to take Ford to the next level in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, the customer experience and big data. Smart Mobility builds upon Ford’s Blueprint for Mobility ( earlier post ). Projects include: Big Data Drive, Dearborn, Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The high-voltage (orange) cables from battery to drive unit are the only high-voltage cables in the system; there are no cables connecting the power electronics to the motor unit under the hood. NMC is a high surface area modified product—this is a brand new class of NMC. Click to enlarge. That helps us get more energy.

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Green Cars News

MAY 6, 2009

Ford Motor Company today announced that it is investing $550 million to transform its Michigan Assembly Plant into a green manufacturing complex that will build Ford’s next-generation Focus global small car along with a new battery-electric version of the Focus for the North American market.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 9, 2024

From MSNBC : The Dearborn, Michigan-based automaker has turned its fleet business, which includes sales to commercial, government and rental customers, into an earnings powerhouse. Like most American automakers, Ford knows how to build full-size trucks. No other company has Ford Pro. The other manufacturers are following suit.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Michigan State). RTI and BASF are teaming to explore a new class of materials known as CO 2 binding organic liquids.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

Companies and universities in Michigan are receiving more than $1 billion of the grants. Large automakers based in Michigan, including GM, Chrysler, and Ford, will receive a total of more than $400 million to manufacture thousands of advanced hybrid and electric vehicles as well as batteries and electric drive components. Powerex, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Generator Applications Argonne National Laboratory will create a new class of. with the potential to efficiently power a next generation class. potential to efficiently power a next generation class of. demonstrate a new class of permanent magnets that do not. class of permanent magnets based on the element cerium.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

The 20 PARC employees were housed in a small, rented building, “with rented chairs, rented desks, a telephone with four buttons on it, and no receptionist,” recalled David Thornburg, who joined PARC’s General Science Laboratory fresh out of graduate school in 1971. MAXC set a pattern for PARC: building its own hardware.

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Baua Electric

MAY 30, 2024

Two of those plants (Lordstown, Ohio, and Spring Hill, Tennessee) are now up and running, with a third in Lansing, Michigan, now under construction. The system comes with a 36-month free trial, after which it’s $25 per month to continue OnStar and Super Cruise connectivity. Its NMCA cells come from joint-venture GM-LG cell plants.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

It builds upon an efficient base transmission and engine. It is fully connected in a parallel configuration to the crankshaft. eAssist is probably the most modular electrification solution that I know of. It enables quick engine starts. The Spark EV will offer a few firsts. Earlier post.) The Spark EV battery pack. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2016

Digital security provider Rambus and Movimento, leading provider of over-the-air (OTA) software lifecycle and data management for the automotive/IoT sectors, have partnered to deliver secure, convenient and personalized OTA vehicle updates critical to safety and performance in the era of the connected car.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

As University of Michigan professor emeritus and student of system-human interactions John Leslie King observes “People find ways to use systems for their own benefit not anticipated by designers and developers. Their behavior might even be contradictory to hoped-for outcomes.” earthquake followed by the 1,700 foot mega-tsunami it creates.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

New University of Michigan research vehicles will be open testbeds for academic and industry researchers rapidly to test self-driving and connected vehicle technologies at a world-class proving ground. An open development platform for connected vehicle communications will be added later. Open CAVs change that.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

Raymond Roth , a director at financial advisory firm Stout Risius Ross , observes among automakers, “There’s this arms race right now of best in class performance” being the dominant selling point. GM CEO Mary Barra has very publicly promised that GM would no longer build “ crappy cars.” BEVs dwell at the bottom of the rankings.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 15, 2023

I feel like there’s a human need to tell stories and we’ve been building new technologies to do that over time. Scheirer: I think that connection is absolutely important to understanding how we use media to tell these stories. Scheirer says don’t blame the Internet for what human nature also does on its own. That’s really key.

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