UM: Clean Energy

Crain’s Detroit Business reports that the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center has granted $12.5 million to a consortium led by UM. The consortium, called the Clean Energy Research Center on Clean Vehicles, will focus on the development of electric vehicles. “This unprecedented public-private partnership across international boundaries is a model for how to tackle the grand energy challenges we are facing on a global scale,” says Dennis Assanis, director of the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute and principal investigator of the project. [Source]