NSF Engines Development Award: Advancing a domestic value chain for electric vehicles (AL, MS, GA)

该区域创新引擎发展奖的重点是在阿拉巴马州、佐治亚州和密西西比州发展电动汽车(EV)生态系统。Magic(密西西比州阿拉巴马州佐治亚州电动汽车技术网络)将以协同的方式专注于电动汽车不断增长的研究、经济发展和劳动力发展，以便每个组件的增长在良性循环中影响其他两个组件的增长。整个世界都在紧急关注脱碳以解决气候危机，转型的速度开始产生许多不同的努力，以应对总体上的绿色交通，特别是电动汽车技术。在消费市场为转型做好准备之前，汽车公司都在从内燃机生产转向电动汽车生产。联合是从混乱中实现秩序的关键，也是实现目标充分统一的关键，以实现历史上最大、最快的产业转型。MAGNET是关于我们服务领域内的合作和联合，以实现区域内有序和有效的增长，并作为国内和国际所需的更广泛联合的典范和影响者。MAGNET将吸引电动汽车行业内的利益相关者作为联盟合作伙伴：行业、大学、政府组织、经济发展组织、社会服务组织和劳动力发展组织-为该地区的更大利益而合作构建电动汽车生态系统。这一联盟将提供具体的、可衡量的关切，其中磁石将转化为受使用启发的研究和开发倡议。通过这种合作方式，产业界、学术界和政府将受益于研究成果，这些成果将被整合回现有行业或孵化成新行业，以支持该地区电动汽车行业的整体健康发展。劳动力发展将以类似的方式发生-通过将劳动力发展提供商和行业聚集在一起-通过制定真正满足电动汽车行业需求的证书来倾听需求并将其转化为行动。该地区电动汽车生产的扩大将在传统上服务不足的社区创造机会，扩大作为电动汽车生态系统一部分的现有和新产业。发展奖将为建立为引擎做准备的团队提供支持，启动战略规划过程，开展参与以增加利益相关者的参与，并提供可信度以吸引合作伙伴参与努力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Regional Innovation Engines Development Award is focused on developing an electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem within the states of Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi. MAGNET (Mississippi Alabama Georgia Network for Electric Vehicle Technologies) will focus on growing research, economic development, and workforce development for EVs in a synergistic way so that growth of each component influences the growth of the other two components in a virtuous cycle. The entire world is urgently focused on decarbonization to resolve the climate crisis, and the speed of transformation is beginning to generate many disparate efforts to respond in green transportation generally, and in EV technologies specifically. Automobile companies are all transitioning from internal combustion engine production to EV production before the consumer market is ready for the transition. Coalescence is the key to achieving order from this chaos and achieving sufficient unity of purpose to make the largest and fastest industrial transition in history. MAGNET is about collaboration and coalescence within our service area to achieve ordered and effective growth within the region, and to serve as a model and influencer for the broader coalescence needed on a national and international basis.MAGNET will attract stakeholders within the EV industry as coalition partners: industry, universities, government organizations, economic development organizations, social services organizations, and workforce development organizations - to collaborate on building the EV ecosystem for the greater good of the region. This coalition will provide specific measurable concerns which MAGNET will translate into use-inspired research and development initiatives. Through this collaborative approach, industry, academia, and government will benefit from the research results which will either be integrated back into an existing industry or incubated into a new industry to support the overall health of the EV industry in the region. Workforce development will happen similarly - by bringing workforce development providers and industry together - listening and translating from needs to action by developing credentials that truly meet the needs of EV industry. The expansion of the EV production in the region will create opportunities in traditionally underserved communities to expand both existing and new industries that are part of the EV ecosystem. The Development Award will provide support for building the team to prepare for the Engine, launching a strategic planning process, conducting engagement to increase stakeholder participation, and providing credibility to attract partners to the effort.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.