Department of Justice
Antitrust Division
Notice is hereby given that, on January 17, 2022, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (“the Act”), Advanced Fluids for Electrified Vehicles (“AFEV”) has filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in its membership. The notifications were filed for the purpose of extending the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances. Specifically, American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc., Detroit, MI; The Shephard Chemical Co., Norwood, OH; and Tianjin SwARC Automotive Research Laboratory Co., Ltd., Tianjin, CHINA, have been added as parties to this venture.
No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned activity of the group research project. Membership in this group research project remains open, and AFEV intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
On June 16, 2021, AFEV filed its original notification pursuant to Section 6(a) of the Act. The Department of Justice published a notice in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on August 16, 2021 (86 FR 45751).
The last notification was filed with the Department on December 02, 2021. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on January 13, 2022 (87 FR 2183).
Suzanne Morris,
Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics, Antitrust Division.