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Workers at Mercedes-Benz's Alabama Plant Shut Down UAW Efforts - For Now

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Last week, workers at Mercedes-Benz’s facility in Alabama voted against unionizing , with 56 percent saying they were against it. The UAW had an uphill battle in the Alabama plant, as Mercedes jumped into the fight in the “no” camp. Though workers voted against the union, they might still benefit from its work with other automakers.

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Start of Production for the new EQS SUV at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama

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The full-size EQS SUV is integrated in series production at the Mercedes-Benz Tuscaloosa plant in Alabama, which has been the production site for large Mercedes-Benz SUVs since 1997. The company plans to close the recyclable material loop with high-tech partners for battery recycling in the US and China.

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Mercedes EV plant in Alabama narrowly declines to join UAW, bucking trend

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Mercedes-Benz kicks off EQS SUV production in Alabama (Source: Mercedes-Benz) Hot on the heels of a historic victory where VW workers in Tennessee voted to join the United Auto Workers union , Mercedes workers in Vance, Alabama have narrowly voted against joining UAW themselves. However, not all is bad for UAW in Alabama.

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Mercedes-Benz opens Bibb County battery plant, ready for production of EQ vehicles in US; partnership with Envision AESC

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Mercedes-Benz has opened its new battery plant in Bibb County, Alabama, a few months ahead of the start of production of all-electric Mercedes-EQ vehicles in the United States. The opening of our new battery plant in Alabama is a major milestone on our way to going all-electric. Earlier post.)

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Westwater Resources is building a facility in Alabama to process one of the largest graphite deposits in the US

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The few companies that have access to graphite mines in North America are the belles of the EV ball at the moment. Westwater holds mineral rights to the Coosa graphite deposit, which is located across 42,000 acres in Alabama. The company is currently building a graphite processing plant in Kellyton, Alabama.

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DOE awards $2.4M to 3 projects for next-generation grid energy storage

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Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and partners will perform a pre-front end engineering design (pre-FEED) study on the integration of a 10 MWhe (megawatt-hour electricity) SandTES pilot system into Alabama Power’s Ernest C. Gaston Electric Generating Plant in Wilsonville, Alabama.

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DOE awarding $73.9M to 10 battery recycling projects

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Advanced batteries are vital to the entire clean energy economy, but the US currently does not produce enough of the critical minerals and battery materials needed to power clean energy technologies. American Battery Technology Company. The University of Alabama. Cirba Solutions. UC San Diego. 10,000,000. 4,000,000.