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MAY 25, 2022

Around 50,000 components per year can be manufactured cost-effectively in common part production, as well as more than 10,000 individual and new parts, by means of 3D printing using Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF). Post-processing of the manufactured components takes place at specially designed stations that are also fully automated.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

It might not look like much today but SpaceX has begun assembling what is set to become Starbase’s largest Starship manufacturing facility. The first, now known simply as the windbreak, is a triangular bay built in 2019 that is mostly unused but occasionally supports work on Starship nose assembly.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

Siemens will invest and expand the company’s US manufacturing operations to support electric vehicle infrastructure in America. The company will bolster its existing manufacturing footprint of EV infrastructure with the VersiCharge Level 2 AC series product line of commercial and residential EV chargers.

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JULY 3, 2020

Mercedes-Benz has entered a far-reaching strategic partnership with the Chinese battery cell manufacturer Farasis Energy (Ganzhou) Co., In order to be able to meet increasing demand for German Mercedes-Benz plants in the future, Farasis is building a plant for battery cells in Bitterfeld-Wolfen; creating up to 2,000 new jobs.

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Mercedes Chinese Manufacturer Batteries 396

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JULY 25, 2019

Magna and the BAIC Group have signed a framework agreement governing their electric vehicle manufacturing joint venture ( earlier post ) in Zhenjiang, China, which marks another milestone of their continued cooperation. Magna has proven experience building complete vehicles for customers.

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APRIL 9, 2020

ABB has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Hydrogène de France to manufacture jointly megawatt-scale fuel cell systems capable of powering ocean-going vessels (OGVs). With the use of renewables to produce the hydrogen, the entire energy chain can be clean. The company is on track to reach 60% of revenues by the end of 2020.

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France Manufacturer Mariner Fuel 397

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JANUARY 4, 2021

The announced Jeep, Fiat and Alfa Romeo cars will be manufactured using the most advanced drive systems, including all-electric drive. million m² is allocated to production halls and service buildings. It covers an area of 2.4 million m², of which 0.5 A new car comes off its assembly lines approximately every minute.

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Poland Jeep Building Hybrid 334

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

announced today that its Spring Hill, Tennessee assembly plant will begin the transition to become the company’s third vehicle manufacturing site to produce electric vehicles, joining Factory ZERO in Detroit and Hamtramck, Michigan, and Orion Assembly in Orion Township, Michigan. General Motors Co.

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Cadillac GM Building Yukon 248

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Together with E.ON, Audi is building a solar energy park on the roofs of the two logistics centers of its plant in Gy?r This will create Europe’s largest photovoltaic system installed on a building at the Audi Hungaria plant in Gy?r. We were the first premium manufacturer to have our CO2 footprint measured and certified in 2014.

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Audi Hungary Building Solar 359

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MAY 24, 2022

Nidec Corporation will build a flagship factory to produce its E-Axle traction motor system in the city of Pinghu, Zhejiang Province in China. Nidec has so far sold more than 370,000 units of E-Axle, the traction motor system that Nidec started producing in April 2019.

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China Building Motor Motors 259

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APRIL 29, 2020

billion in its US battery business to build two plants at its site in Commerce, Ga., SK Innovation broke ground on the first plant at the Georgia site in March 2019 and is expected to begin mass production in 2022. SK Innovation has increased investment plans for its Georgia EV battery site, shown here in a rendering.

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Georgia Building Batteries Battery 394

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APRIL 3, 2019

At Hannover Messe, Microsoft and the BMW Group announced a new community initiative to enable faster, more cost-effective innovation in the manufacturing sector. Manufacturing production and profitability can be hindered by complex, proprietary systems that create data silos and slow productivity.

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BMW Manufacturer Industrial Industry 306

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JANUARY 25, 2019

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has launched the Battery Cell Research Production Center, a new R&D and large-scale industrial manufacturing plant for lithium-ion cells; the center will receive an investment of €500 million. Production will start in the first half of 2019.

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Li-ion Germany Lithium Ion Manufacturer 312

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JULY 30, 2020

The company just opened a separate Battery Cell Competence Center in Munich in November 2019, covering the entire battery cell value chain, from research and development to battery cell composition and design, all the way to large-scale manufacturability. Assembly of the battery cell at the Battery Cell Competence Center.

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Li-ion BMW Building Sweden 338

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JUNE 1, 2020

ITM Power is establishing ITM Motive as a separate, wholly owned subsidiary for building, owning and operating a portfolio of hydrogen refueling stations in the UK. In October 2019, the Company announced the completion of a £58.8-million

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Building Power Powered Hydrogen 210

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

BASF will build a new battery materials production site in Schwarzheide, Germany, as part of its multi-step investment plan to support the European electric vehicle (EV) value chain. View over BASF Schwarzheide from the evaporation plant with the block field for the planned cathode active materials plant in the background.

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Finland Building Production Germany 284

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JULY 3, 2014

The BMW Group will invest $1 billion to build a new plant in Mexico in close proximity to the city of San Luis Potosí in the state of the same name. Production is planned to start in 2019. We have been building BMW cars at our US plant in Spartanburg for the past 20 years. The BMW Group will thus invest a total of $2.2

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Mexico BMW 2019 Building 210

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APRIL 24, 2024

American automaker Ford, whch is known to be working on an affordable EV platform, is set to build more electric vehicle (EV) software capabilities at its Ford Business Solutions India operation, based in Chennai. This information is as per a tweet by TN Investment today.

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Ford Building India Affordable 52

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OCTOBER 2, 2020

Dürr is positioning itself in the growing Li-ion battery market as a supplier of production technology and is expanding its market access to battery manufacturers through a cooperation with Techno Smart, a leading Japanese manufacturer of coating systems. That is why Dürr is bringing the coating specialists technology on board.

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Lithium Ion Manufacturer Batteries Battery 243

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MAY 6, 2022

Many of the positions will be in the research and development space and will target expertise in mechanical hardware, electrical and electronics engineering, and materials and manufacturing. The Industry Building that will house NHS Bozeman will break ground starting in June 2022, while the first R&D office officially opens in June 2022.

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Montana Las Vegas Design Hyundai 195

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

Two new Tesla Cybertruck builds were spotted under wraps at Giga Texas by a drone operator. The Cybertruck was unveiled in late 2019 and has been under development since then. Tesla has maintained that it would build the Cybertruck at Giga Texas, but Tegtmeyer stated the prototypes arrived when he was finished filming.

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Texas Building Tesla 2019 141

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JANUARY 14, 2019

will be the company’s North American base for manufacturing electric vehicles based on the modular electric toolkit MEB. In addition to Chattanooga, Volkswagen is building the first dedicated EV production facility in Zwickau, Germany, starting MEB production by the end of 2019. Volkswagen AG announced that Chattanooga, Tenn.

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Building 2020 SUV America 286

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The global strategy leads from vertical integration in the raw material market via building battery plants, as well as cell factories in collaboration with partners—amongst them the Chinese battery expert Gotion—to second life solutions and recycling.

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China Building Czech Republic Batteries 186

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MARCH 26, 2021

This latest investment follows 2019’s launch of MPT’s battery module test and analysis facility, where battery modules can be tested in an array of steady-state and dynamic climatic conditions. —Derek Wise, chief engineer for build and test.

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Building Batteries Battery Climate 186

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APRIL 3, 2017

A123 Systems LLC, a developer and manufacturer of advanced lithium-ion batteries and systems, plans to spend $40 million to build a new headquarters complex in Novi, Michigan. The 32-acre company-owned site will house all corporate functions, an engineering center, new laboratory space and a manufacturing plant.

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MARCH 5, 2019

Despite traditionally being a seasonally-slow month for the EV market, in January 2019, 3.27 GWh of passenger EV battery capacity was deployed in China, an increase of 439% over January 2018 levels, inferring from a model-by-model build-up using Adamas Intelligence’s ‘EV Battery Capacity and Battery Metals Tracker’.

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2019 China Batteries Battery 170

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JANUARY 16, 2023

CEO Elon Musk says that SpaceX’s South Texas Starship aims to build up to five of the two-stage megarockets in 2023. SpaceX’s Boca Chica, Texas hardware endeavors began in an empty field in late 2018, kicking off Starhopper testing in 2019. In terms of useful output, that manufacturing slowed down a bit in 2022.

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Building Texas 2019 Florida 145

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

According to a new National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report, blockchain technology can not only provide tamper-proof transmission of manufacturing data, it also yields something just as valuable to its users—traceability of that data to all participants in the production process. —Thomas Hedberg.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

OXIS Energy Ltd UK has signed a contract with CODEMGE PARTICIPACOES SA, a public company incorporated in the city of Belo Horizonte in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, to establish the world’s first digital manufacturing plant for the mass production of OXIS’ lithium-sulfur cells. OXIS is targeting 500Wh/kg for 2019.

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Brazil Li-ion Building Energy 308

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APRIL 15, 2020

USA Rare Earth, LLC, the funding and development partner of the Round Top Heavy Rare Earth and Critical Minerals Project in West Texas, has purchased the neodymium iron boron (NdFeB) permanent magnet manufacturing equipment formerly owned and operated in North Carolina by Hitachi Metals America, Ltd. billion in 2027.

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USA Manufacturer Texas North Carolina 207

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OCTOBER 25, 2019

FCA will build a new battery assembly complex in Turin as part of its overall e-mobility strategy. A complete battery assembly center will be created in a specially designed building, with the potential to be expanded for future projects. The initial investment will be approximately €50 million.

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Building Batteries Battery Italy 170

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Two UK-based companies—Williams Advanced Engineering and Unipart Manufacturing Group—have formed a new joint venture—Hyperbat Limited—to produce batteries for future hybrid and electric vehicles. What will be the UK’s largest independent vehicle battery manufacturer will open in early 2019 in Coventry.

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Aston Martin Manufacturer Engine Batteries 199

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JANUARY 8, 2021

Volvo Cars is tripling electric car manufacturing capacity at its plant in Ghent, Belgium as it prepares to meet fast growing demand for its Recharge line-up of chargeable cars. The share of Recharge cars as a percentage of total sales more than doubled in 2020, compared to 2019. in the region for the whole year.

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Volvo Electric Cars Sale Belgium 397

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JUNE 30, 2021

BASF will build a battery recycling prototype plant in Schwarzheide, Germany, at the site of its cathode active materials (CAM) plant. The extracted metals will be used to produce new cathode active materials and will enable a circular economy for the battery value chain.

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Germany Building Batteries Battery 170

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JUNE 24, 2022

There is practically no way to build them taller, as they would be too unstable and economically too costly. Trimming manufacturing costs drastically cuts the costs per megawatt hour of power generated. SPRIND GmbH was founded in Leipzig in December 2019.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

Mercedes-Benz Cars will build a battery factory at the site in Jawor, Poland, and thus extend its global battery production network to nine factories. In Jawor, approximately 100 km away from the German border, Mercedes-Benz is currently building a state-of-the-art engine factory. The series production will start in spring 2019.

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Poland Mercedes Global Building 249

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AUGUST 28, 2018

Once operational, these plants will manufacture high-cetane (80+) renewable diesel fuel from agricultural oils and animal fats, using a patented catalytic hydrogenation technology that the company says is more efficient than current conversion processes.

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Renewable Las Vegas Nevada Diesel 210