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

APRIL 14, 2009

The National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries (NAATBatt) ( earlier post ) has selected a site in Hardin County, Kentucky to build a more than $600-million automotive lithium-ion battery plant. Kentucky was selected over Texas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

MARCH 28, 2024

Ford is cutting its F-150 Lightning production workforce by two-thirds as the company continues to try and ramp manufacturing of electric vehicles and work toward profitability. “Their intentions were to build 180,000-plus units. Right now, we’re looking at 55,000 units they’re gonna build.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The NNCI framework builds on the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN), which enabled major discoveries, innovations, and contributions to education and commerce for more than 10 years. The Center for Nanoscale Systems at Harvard University, Harvard University, PI: Robert Westervelt.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2013

For example, Solid Power located in Louisville, CO will receive approximately $3.5 UH’s new batteries will meet today’s performance standards, while minimizing the potential impact of battery failure, thus offering manufacturers greater flexibility with regard to vehicle design. EnZinc Inc. Dendrite Free Zinc?Air Air Battery.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Sunline Transit Agency, in partnership with the Southern California Association of Governments, will receive funding to build and deploy five hydrogen electric hybrid fuel cell buses. BAE Systems, Ballard Power Systems and ElDorado National will team up to build the new zero-emission buses. Transit Authority of River City (TARC).

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Cars That Think

MAY 10, 2024

The initiative is backed by NASA’s Commercial LEO Destinations (CLD) program, through which the agency is providing funding to incentivize the private sector to build space habitats. NASA may also be the main client starting out, although the wider goal is to foster a sustainable commercial presence in LEO.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Earlier this month, the UAW threatened to launch a strike at Ford’s most profitable manufacturing facility, the Kentucky Truck Plant , if an agreement wasn’t reached by February 23. “Our reliance on the UAW turned out to be we were the first truck plant to be shut down,” Farley said (via CBS News ).

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Teslarati

MAY 6, 2022

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co (CATL) said in March 2021 that it would invest $5 billion into potential electric vehicle battery cell manufacturing sites in North America. The reports follow CATL’s plans to spend $5 billion in North America to establish a massive cell plant capable of manufacturing 80 gigawatt-hours annually.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Promote a robust market for vehicle manufacturers, utilities, equipment service providers, and support industries that ensures a consistent user experience, customer choice, and allows for a streamlined permitting process. Enhance American manufacturing competitiveness, innovation, and the development of advanced technology.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 16, 2023

From AP : The company, he said, builds more vehicles in America and has more United Auto Workers employees than any company, which has increased its costs in a highly competitive industry. Last week 8,700 union members walked out at the largest and most profitable Ford plant in the world , the Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville.

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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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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Squeezing-out that Extra Mile Plug-in hybrids have gone from not having a big fan base to now becoming what many manufacturers are adding to their electrified line-up. The brand needs consistency to build name awareness and model recognition. Will Lincoln introduce an all-new Corsair in the next year or go in a different direction?

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Cars That Think

JUNE 25, 2022

My company, Amp Robotics , based in Louisville, Colo., Moving the task of sorting further downstream led to the building of sorting facilities. is developing hardware and software that relies on image analysis to sort recyclables with far higher accuracy and recovery rates than are typical for conventional systems.

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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. Digital Manufacturing And Design Innovation. UTRC; Wolf Robotics.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Louisville, Colo. Touchstone Research Laboratory, Triadelphia, W. Tustin, Calif.

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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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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. 2010 Prius designed to be manufactured with NiMH or Lithium batteries. Establishing dealer network. Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012. unit, said.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Talking extreme era to Ford employees at a plant in Louisville, Kentucky, Fain complained about one usual for the company category and some other for familiar employees. “So if you raise the price to build a unionized vehicle, you could price yourself out of competition with vehicles already built in North America.”

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains grant is part of the DOE’s push to modernize US infrastructure and boost clean energy innovation under the Biden-Harris administration’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. David Mackanic, CEO of Anthro Energy, called the grant a “pivotal moment” for the company and for US battery manufacturing.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

In mid-January, a top United States materials company announced that it had started to manufacture rare earth magnets. manufacturers. A magnet manufacturing surge fueled by Defense dollars MP Materials has named its new, state-of-the-art magnet manufacturing facility Independence. trade relations. government. (E-VAC,

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