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Chrysler starts harvesting soy grown at proving ground for biodiesel

At Chrysler's 2008 model preview last June, executive vice-president Frank Klegon announced that the company was involved in some biodiesel research that included growing soy for fuel production. They had planted fuel crops at their Chelsea Proving Ground and also on a brown-field site in Detroit. This fall they harvested the soy grown at the Proving Ground, processed it and sent it to the NextDiesel refinery in Adrian, MI for production. There were a number of reasons for deciding to grow soy at Chelsea. The facility has a lot of open ground ... Read more →

New biodiesel plant opens in Adrian, Michigan Jeremy Korzeniewski

Chrysler starts harvesting soy grown at proving ground for biodiesel 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

New biodiesel plant opens in Adrian, Michigan 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Michigan is looking to get into the biofuels game as much as they can. Considering that Detroit is the birthplace and home of the motor industry in America, it seems proper that they should ride the biofuel wave as more and more cars come out of the Big Three that can use either E85 or biodiesel in ...

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