Aspen Aerogels gets USD 671 million DOE loan for battery materials plant in Georgia On October 16, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a loan of nearly USD 671 million to Aspen Aerogels Inc. to fund construction of a new manufacturing plant producing thermal barriers that help prevent battery fires.  While such events are rare, the cells within lithium-ion batteries can overheat and cause adjacent cells to do the same, leading to a fir...

News  Updated at: 2024/10/19

oducing hydrogen.•    The Pennsylvania State University plans to research the materials science and engineering of boron nitride and its potential application in the manufacture of semiconductor devices as an alternative to gallium, almost none of which is produced in the United States.•    Aspen Aerogels, Inc. plans to scale up their lithium iron phosphate-based battery technology from bench‐scale to pilot‐scale for use in EVs—as a...

News  Updated at: 2024/08/15

Aspen Aerogels, US to provide aerogel thermal barrier material for electric-only Porsche 718 series On June 13, Aspen Aerogels, Inc. announced a PyroThin design award from Valmet Automotive to supply the next-generation electric-only Porsche 718 series. PyroThin is an ultrathin, lightweight insulation and fire barrier engineered to mitigate thermal runaway at cell-to-cell, module, & pack barrier levels. Valmet Automotive is Porsche's manufacturin...

News  Updated at: 2024/06/14

Aspen Aerogels inaugurates two plants in Mexico On February 26 was announced that Aspen inaugurated two new plants in Apodaca, Nuevo Leon, Mexico in which USD 270 million were invested. The first plant of 9,400 square meters, will do the conversion process of air gel rolls while the second plant, of 16,900 square meters, will encapsulate the air gel that will be sent to their clients like GM, Toyota, Audi, Scania, Stellantis and Magna. Both plant...

News  Updated at: 2024/02/28

GM CEO Mary Barra talks about slow rollout of EVs On June 26, during the annual Aspen Ideas Festival, in Aspen, Colorado, GM CEO Mary Barra touched on many topics affecting the company.Barra said GM is working to catch up with its EV launch plans and will hit the production target to produce 400,000 EVs for North America between 2022 and the middle of 2024. Barra explained that ramping up a whole new propulsion system took time, as well as GM's ...

News  Updated at: 2023/06/30

ntly located in Cypress, California, confirmed the location for the company's permanent headquarters in the Cool Springs district of Franklin, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville. The company has signed a long-term lease, and will occupy 40,000 square feet in the top two floors of the building at 4015 Aspen Grove Drive when it is completed in early spring 2020. As part of the move, the company has already hired 50 people for its temporary facilities...

News  Updated at: 2019/11/22

, 458 Spider, FF, and F12 Berlinetta; Toyota Yaris; Tesla Model S; BMW X5 and X6; Mazda6, CX-7, CX-9, RX-8 and B-Series trucks; Subaru Tribeca, Impreza, Forester, WRX, Legacy, and Outback; Land Rover Range Rover and Jaguar XF; McLaren MP4-12C; Audi A6, S6, A4 and S4; Jeep Wrangler, Chrysler 300 and Aspen, Dodge Challenger, Charger, Dakota and Durango; RAM 3500, 4500, and 5500.Without naming models earlier in January, Takata announced it was recal...

News  Updated at: 2018/01/24

Toyota unveiled new FCV in North America Toyota announced on June 27 that it is staging the North American debut of its “Car of the Future” at the 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado. Unveiled earlier this week at a press conference in Japan, the zero-emission hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle (FCV) will be available for sale to customers in California in summer 2015. Japanese price of new FCV is announced at about JPY 7 million. U.S. price is not...

News  Updated at: 2014/07/01