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The United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC) – a research collaboration between Chrysler, Ford and General Motors – has awarded LG Chem Power a $9.62-million development contract to focus on reducing the cost of lithium-ion battery packs for plug-in hybrid vehicles with 40 ...

The United States Advanced Battery Consortium LLC (USABC), a research collaboration between Chrysler Group, Ford Motor and General Motors, has awarded A123 Systems an $8 million, 24-month contract, which the firm will use to continue its quest to develop its patented Nanophosphate lithium-ion ...

The United States Advanced Battery Consortium LLC (USABC), a research collaboration between Chrysler Group, Ford Motor and General Motors, announced recently that it will award approximately $15.6 million for advanced battery development projects to three automotive supply firms: Cobasys ...

The United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC), made up of Chrysler, Ford and GM, wants to hear proposals for new and better electric vehicle batteries. Through January 29th, the consortium will be accepting requests for proposal information (RFPIs) for four different projects: ...

USCAR, the United States Council for Automotive Research - a consortium of GM, Ford and Chrysler, has just issued a new standard for high voltage wiring and connectors in hybrid and electric cars. The existing standards only covered conventional systems up to 20V. The new standard covers systems ...

The United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC) announced a $2.3 million grant to develop lithium battery technologies. USABC, which is under the umbrella of United States Council for Automotive Research (USCAR), a research organization between Detroit's Big Three, awarded the grant, in ...

In a further sign that plug-in vehicles are on their way, two new companies - both utilities - have joined the USCAR partnership: DTE Energy and Southern California Edison. USCAR (the United States Council for Automotive Research, a joint project of the Big Three) announced yesterday that the new ...

On Tuesday, ages after the major automakers had made all the glitzy announcements they wanted to make, USCAR (the United States Council for Automotive Research, a joint project of the Big Three) announced that - wait a minute. Announced is too strong a word here. Sure, USCAR representatives held a ...

Here's some automobile-in-the-environment numbers from USCAR, the United States Council for Automotive Research: Percentage of vehicles in the U.S. that "go through a market-driven recycling infrastructure" at the end-of-life (ELV) : over 95 How much of each of these vehicles, by weight, ...

The United States Automotive Materials Partnership (USAMP) today called for "increased development and application of nondestructive evaluation tools in the automotive industry" as part of its publicly issued a Strategic Plan for Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) Development in the North American ...