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Tesla Gigafactory Nevada celebrates 1 million battery pack milestone

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Tesla’s Gigafactory Nevada has achieved an incredible milestone. A picture of Gigafactory Nevada’s 1,000,000th battery was posted on the r/TeslaMotors subreddit. The special occasion was commemorated by the Giga Nevada team, with the battery pack being signed by numerous employees.

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Faraday Future Chooses Nevada For Electric-Car Plant

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Last month, Faraday Future announced that it was considering sites in California, Georgia, Louisiana, and Nevada for a $1 billion electric-car plant. Now, it appears Nevada is the preferred location for the plant, which will build the electric car Faraday plans to launch in 2017.

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Stellantis makes $155M investment in McEwen Copper Argentina project

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equity stake in McEwen Copper, a subsidiary of Canadian mining company McEwen Mining, which owns the Los Azules project in Argentina and the Elder Creek project in Nevada. which holds 100% interests in the Los Azules project in Argentina and in the Elder Creek exploration property in Nevada. The company is acquiring a 14.2%

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UAW targets Tesla in future plans to bargain with ‘Big Five or Six’

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Earlier this month, Fain also called workers at Tesla, Toyota, Honda and others “UAW members of the future,” highlighting his ambitions to boost membership to include the automakers. UAW President: Tesla workers are union “members of the future” Tesla and other automakers, such as Toyota and Volkswagen, have U.S.

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Faraday Future factory, 2017 Jeep Compass, CA electric-car sales surge: Today's Car News

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Today, Faraday Future halts work on its Nevada electric-car factory, the 2017 Jeep Compass debuts at the 2016 Los Angeles Auto Show, and 250,000 plug-in cars are expected to be sold in California this month. Faraday Future recently halted work on its Nevada factory, and says it will resume in early 2017.

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Opinon: Lithium Market Set To Explode; All Eyes Are On Nevada

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While other commodities are floundering or completely collapsing in this market, lithium—the critical mineral in the emerging battery gigafactory war—is poised to explode, and going forward Nevada is emerging as the front line in this pending American lithium boom. Albemarle Corp.

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2017 Ford Focus Electric, Faraday Future, VW Efficiency 'Deviations': Today's Car News

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Today, the 2017 Ford Focus will have a 100-mile range when it arrives next year, Faraday Future will locate its electric-car factory in Nevada, and Volkswagen says an issue with European efficiency figures only amounts to "slight deviations" on certain models. The updated 2017 Ford Focus Electric will get a.

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