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DECEMBER 12, 2014

Among its offerings at the upcoming North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit next month, BMW will present the prototype of a drive module for electric hydrogen fuel cell drive systems for the first time.

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JUNE 19, 2010

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) will invest $194 million (approximately €157 million) in the Detroit Diesel engine production facility in Redford, Michigan to expand substantially the heavy-duty BlueTec diesel engine production capacity. A big part of the investment will be spent on cylinder head production.

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JANUARY 4, 2012

At the 2012 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Volvo Car Corporation will unveil the Volvo XC60 gasoline-electric Plug-in Hybrid Concept. XC60 Plug-in Hybrid Concept. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) present vehicle.

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MAY 13, 2009

Detroit Diesel Corporation, a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America, recently delivered its first two trucks equipped with BlueTec selective catalytic reduction (SCR) exhaust treatment technology to meet EPA 2010 emission standards to customers for testing.

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JANUARY 29, 2010

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has certified the entire family of heavy-duty diesel engines made by Detroit Diesel Corporation (DDC), a Daimler Company—DD13, DD15, and DD16 engines with SCR technology— as being in compliance with the EPA 2010 emissions standard, which took effect at the start of this year.

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APRIL 22, 2009

Air Products, the leading global hydrogen provider, will construct a hydrogen production facility in Detroit, Mich., for Marathon Petroleum Company LLC, a subsidiary of Marathon Oil Corporation. The facility will provide hydrogen and steam for Marathon’s heavy oil upgrade project at its Detroit refinery.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Ford Motor Company is teaming with the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM) to retrain its traditional automotive engineers, providing them with the skills and expertise to develop the next generation of advanced electric and hybrid vehicles. These five courses will be completed in one calendar year.

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JANUARY 12, 2016

Lexus brought the all-wheel drive hydrogen fuel cell LF-FC flagship concept, unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show in October 2015 ( earlier post ), to the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit for its North American premiere.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

SPX Corporation, Chevrolet’s home charging installation partner, will deliver and install hundreds of Level II 240V ChargePoint charging stations to the Chevrolet dealers. Chevrolet will of fer Coulomb’s ChargePoint electric vehicle (EV) charging stations for use at its US Chevrolet dealerships in support of the arrival of the Volt.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2022

The GEKOT team is working to establish Detroit as the center of engineering excellence in micro-mobility and light electric vehicles. The intention is that electric scooter and e-bike companies will soon consider Detroit expertise to develop their vehicles. Mouvit ($100,000).

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Early wakeup calls in Detroit continued as our grand tour picked up speed. GM Vice-chairman, Bob Lutz invited us to their private test track about an hour outside of Detroit. On the morning of the new Volt introduction, about a thousand people gathered in a four story atrium in the Renaissance Center in Detroit.

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MAY 21, 2021

Daimler Truck AG is pursuing a sustainable corporate strategy and aims to offer only new vehicles that are CO 2 -neutral in driving operation (“tank-to-wheel”) in Europe, Japan, and North America by 2039. Now CATL is expanding globally, and has opened subsidiaries in Munich (Germany); Paris (France); Yokohama (Japan); and Detroit (USA).

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 13, 2007

Detroit and it's Congressional defenders are again suggesting that what's good for America will kill Big Auto. It is idiotic if conventional wisdom to suggest anti-corporate crusader Ralph Nader has it in for the automakers, but quite another to label Reaganaut and hardline conservative Gaffney anti-business. auto industry.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Interviewing GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz at GM's test track in Detroit. General Motors invited me to Detroit to speak on a panel at its 100th anniversary along with a small group of other “outside voices&#. Tags: Shoots Production Diary Production News Past Shoots GM Chevy Volt Detroit. The answer was a bit of both.

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Detroit GM Volt EV1 100

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) announced new collaborations with AT&T and Microsoft Corporation with the goal of delivering further enhancements to its Detroit Connect suite of connected vehicle services. The new Detroit Connect Analytics provides users with on-demand, automated fuel efficiency and safety performance insights.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Detroit News. In 2009, the company was designated by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation as a Michigan Center of Energy Excellence in partnership with the University of Michigan and received a $3 million award. GM Ventures took a $3.2

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JANUARY 31, 2012

Initially announced at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit earlier this month, Hyundai’s Lifetime Hybrid Battery Replacement Guarantee applies to all US 2012 model year Sonata Hybrids and is the first-of-its-kind in the industry. —Michael O'Brien, vice president, Corporate and Product Planning.

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Hybrid Batteries Battery Polymer 271

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JUNE 28, 2011

FedEx has added five Transit Connect Electric vans from Ford Motor Company and Azure Dynamics to support the corporate Information Technology Asset Disposal program, driving regularly scheduled routes to pick up, recycle, reuse and dispose of IT assets. Since launching our first Sprinter in 2000, we have put close to 1.4 and Jonesboro, Ark.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 16, 2024

General Motors recently announced a move from the Renaissance Center (RenCen), the building it purchased in 1996, to a new location at the Hudson’s Detroit building further north. The move is scheduled for 2025, but the decision could leave a significant part of the Detroit skyline empty. That’s a significant reduction from RenCen’s 2.3

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JANUARY 13, 2012

The XC60 Plug-in Hybrid Concept was introduced at the Detroit Auto Show. Volvo will bring the gasoline plug-in technology to market in the US “ in a couple of years ”, according to Stefan Jacoby, President and CEO of Volvo Car Corporation, although without saying which model will be the first to feature the system. Click to enlarge.

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Downsizing Volvo Engine Hybrid 240

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JULY 28, 2011

Sunlogics will use some of the funding to establish its corporate headquarters and open a manufacturing facility in suburban Detroit, and to set up a manufacturing facility in Ontario.

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Solar Installation GM Purchase 210

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NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Omnitek Engineering Corporation has selected the 12.7 L Detroit Diesel Series 60 and the Caterpillar C15 engines based on the sheer number of trucks on the roads utilizing these engine models, which represents an addressable market of more than 1,000,000 trucks.

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DECEMBER 18, 2012

Sacramento will round out the previously announced list of Apollo participants including Bosch Automotive Service Solutions, Duke Energy, Google, DTE Energy, and The Hertz Corporation.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 15, 2014

Ford is starting a project that will not only give employees a place to charge, but also reduce its corporate carbon emissions. The carmaker announced it is teaming with Detroit utility DTE Energy to build a solar canopy over hundreds of parking.'

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Delta Products Corporation demonstrated its latest smart Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) as part of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) 3-year program that Delta was awarded in 2012, targeting to reduce 50% of EV charging system cost compared to today’s technologies. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 5, 2009

General Motors Corporation. General Motors Corporation. KEMET Corporation. Louis Science Center; Smith Electric Vehicles US Corporation (SEV-US); Kokam America Inc. Detroit, MI Warren, MI. Detroit, MI Ann Arbor, MI Dearborn, MI Flint, MI. Brownstown, MI. Cells will be from LG Chem, Ltd. Saft America, Inc.

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Lithium Ion Grant Obama St. Louis 317

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APRIL 18, 2013

Global automotive supplier Linamar Corporation has developed a fully-integrated, compact, modular and scalable twin-motor bolt-on rear axle unit to enable hybrid all-wheel drive applications: the Agilit-e Hybrid Power Unit. The Linamar Agilit-e unit contains the two motors, gears, power electronics, and cooling. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2014

At SAE World Congress in Detroit, Granta Design announced the launch of the Automotive Material Intelligence Consortium ( AutoMatIC ). This new industry collaboration will bring together OEMs and suppliers in the automotive and off-highway vehicle sectors to develop best practice for materials information and its use.

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Design Manufacturer Global Emissions 218

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JUNE 29, 2014

According to SEIA, GM leads all automakers in the number of solar installations in the US and ranks among the top US corporate solar users in 2013 and 2012. A 516 kW installation at Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly, Michigan’s largest ground-mount solar array. GM’s other U.S. solar installations include: A 1.8 GM’s other U.S.

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Michigan Solar GM Baltimore 265

Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2013

Detroit-based NextEnergy is a non-profit energy-technology and business accelerator. The project is funded with $1 million from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) and $400,000 from NextEnergy. Chrysler Group is working with NextEnergy to evaluate vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology using four all-electric minivans.

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Chrysler Grid Minivan Vehicles 252

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The project will be implemented by a unique Texas not-for-profit corporation created to research, develop and implement smart grid clean energy systems. NSTAR Electric & Gas Corporation (MA). New York State Electric & Gas Corporation. Beacon Power Corporation (MA). Primus Power Corporation (CA). 24,978,264.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 28, 2020

Since it emerged last year, Lordstown Motors has been considered a small niche operation aiming at the sustainability-report margins: corporate fleets, public utilities, and worksites that want to be seen as sustainable.

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Motor Motors Motoring Detroit 137

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

We are now freeing up these funds to focus them on the technologies that are crucial to our long-term corporate success in the transformation of our industry. With the changeover to Euro VII, we would have to invest considerable resources in the further development of our medium-duty engines.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 28, 2012

After a long, political battle, both on Capitol Hill and in Detroit, the U.S. Department of Energy and the Obama administration have confirmed new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for all cars made between 2017 and 2025.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In addition to its Cypress battery cell technology Sakuu is continuing to make progress on its longer-term initiative known as Kavian, an additive manufacturing platform. Earlier post.)

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Batteries Battery Congress Polymer 195

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Detroit Edison of Michigan and Dominion Energy of Virginia have submitted NRC license applications referencing the ESBWR. The MOU is with the Nuclear Power Corporation of India, the country’s only nuclear utility, which operates 17 reactors. million tons of CO 2 , equivalent to the annual emissions of about 1.3 million cars.

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JULY 15, 2021

a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, has acquired CARMERA, Inc., Lane-level object detection in downtown Detroit, part of an earlier CARMERA and TRI-AD mapping initiative. and CARMERA in Tokyo, Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan, laid the groundwork for this deal. Woven Planet Holdings, Inc.,

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