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.) The 2.866 million square-foot plant was built in 1957.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Michigan Technological University. The University of Michigan. The GM team draws on experience in engine technologies and connected and autonomous vehicles to expedite the project development process. The Ohio State University. Vehicle demonstration will leverage the Smart City infrastructure in Columbus. Purdue University.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2014

Results of a lifecycle analysis by a team at the University of Michigan suggest that multiple types of natural gas-powered vehicles—i.e., Results of a lifecycle analysis by a team at the University of Michigan suggest that multiple types of natural gas-powered vehicles—i.e., —Dai and Lastoskie.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Rationally Designed Lithium Ion Batteries Towards Displacing Internal Combustion Engines. New Two-Cylinder Prototype Demonstration and Concept Design of a Next Generation Class 3-6 Opposed Piston Engine. Michigan Technological University. Group14 Technologies Inc. Sila Nanotechnologies. Solid Power Inc. . Achates Power.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

One initiative, SuperTruck II ( earlier post ), will award $80 million to four projects to develop and to demonstrate cost-effective technologies that more than double the freight efficiency of Class 8 trucks. Michigan State University. valve faces, piston crowns, and exhaust ports) to improve fuel economy. Drive Oregon.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The second-generation Volt, which makes its world debut in about 10 weeks at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, features a clean-sheet, all-new Voltec propulsion system—new battery, new electric drive unit, new power electronics and new range-extending engine. That helps us get more energy. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

The next-generation Ford Focus 5-door hatchback, revealed at the 2010 North American International Auto Show. Ford unveiled its strategically important next-generation Ford Focus in both four-door sedan and five-door hatchback styles at the 2010 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. Click to enlarge.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Chevrolet made the radical decision to have the 2021 Corvette, or C8 as aficionados call it, become a mid-engine sports car, abandoning the front engine design that began when the first Corvette rolled off the line in Flint, Michigan, on June 30, 1953. liter flat-plane crank V8 , internally called the LT6. Let the sunshine in.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 4, 2024

Starting in 2025 they will come out with no new internal combustion engine models, and by 2030 will only sell cars and SUVs powered by a battery. Our focus is on vehicles that offer the best fuel economy in their class, which leads us to emphasize electric cars, plug-in hybrids, hybrids and diesels.

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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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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2011

Automotive X Prize teams from New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Indiana will compete at the 7 th Annual Green Grand Prix Friday, April 15, at Watkins Glen International. The X Prize cars will be entered in one of two fuel economy rallies that will be run on the WGI’s 2.45-mile mile) short course.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

The BUSolutions demonstrator LCO-140H (Low Cost of Ownership–1 st 40-foot Hybrid) series hydraulic hybrid transit bus yields fuel economy of 6.9 The four main areas of focus for reducing the lifecycle cost of the new bus were purchase price; fuel economy; scheduled maintenance; and unscheduled maintenance. Since 2005, FTA issued $5.1

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2019

The results for flying economy class are shown in the table below. Greenhouse gas emissions from round trips flying economy class. Carbon dioxide equivalent emissions per passenger for a round trip flying economy class range from 390 pounds for the shortest examined flight to 13,892 pounds for the longest flight.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

Michigan Governor’s Gretchen Whitmer, for example, claimed that since she took office in 2019, 25,000 new auto jobs were added to the state through her leadership in leading “the future of mobility and electrification.” The state of Michigan has been the epicenter of the U.S. North Carolina has provided $1.2 billion to Rivian.

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Plug in America

JULY 22, 2024

According to a study commissioned by the BlueGreen Alliance from the Political Economy Research Institute , the climate, energy, and environmental investments of the Inflation Reduction Act, including EV tax credits, will create more than 9 million jobs over the next decade, an average of nearly 1 million jobs each year.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2014

The Army will also test and evaluate fuel-efficient tires resulting from projects at its facilities in Warren, Michigan. Michigan State University. Dual-Fuel/Bi-Fuel Class 8 Vehicle Technologies (Area of Interest 13). Nineteen projects are aimed at reducing the cost and improving the performance of key PEV components.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 19, 2009

What a world class collection of whining, wailing, tantum-throwing, self-centered clueless babies they are. And I feel just as sorry for all the folks working in the internal engine-based car companies as I do for all them workers who once made the hats that every man in America wore to the ballgames and the inaugurations.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

The electric boost allows us to do interesting things and get better fuel economy than you would normally think about for such light electrification. We changed the thickness of the coating, we changed many other parameters on the internal design of the cell in order to maximize energy density and get the most range out of the product.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

The competition, conducted by the automotive division of the Society of Plastics Engineers International, honors the most innovative use of plastics in automotive applications. The system replaces traditional hydraulic systems, reducing weight 17%, cost 50%, and increasing fuel economy by 4%. kilograms). Environmental.

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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. Change rides on the rails of what doesn’t change,” King notes, “including people being self-serving.”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

will seek to develop a new class of ultra-high energy new metal-air batteries using advanced ionic liquids. RTI International will work with ADM, Albemarle and ConocoPhillips to develop a novel single-step catalytic biomass pyrolysis process with high carbon conversion efficiency to produce stable bio-crude oil with low oxygen content.

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