Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2023

With chips finally reaching factory floors, their own manufacturing capacities were restored to pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2022. The auto industry is a relatively small chip end-user, but it’s growing fast. Cars rely on chips made using mature—40-nanometer and older—manufacturing processes.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2016

intends to open a new manufacturing facility in Mexico to produce aluminium automotive structural components. This plant, located in San Luis Potosí, will allow Constellium to respond to increasing demand for lightweight, high-strength aluminium Crash Management Systems and automotive structures for the expanding auto industry in Mexico.

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Teslarati

MAY 31, 2023

LG Energy Solutions (LGES) and Hyundai teamed up to build a battery cell manufacturing plant in the United States. Hyundai Motor Group and LGES signed a memorandum of understanding on May 26 in Seoul, Korea, for a battery cell manufacturing facility in Bryan County, Savannah, Georgia. based battery plant.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Earlier this month, the UAW threatened to launch a strike at Ford’s most profitable manufacturing facility, the Kentucky Truck Plant , if an agreement wasn’t reached by February 23. “Maybe it needs to recommit to American workers and find a CEO who’s interested in the future of this country’s auto industry.”

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The facility will eventually produce up to 20,000 tonnes of battery-grade lithium and will enable E3 to develop a long-term source of lithium supply for EV production in North America. Lithium Development in North America. ” Strategic Innovation Fund’s Net Zero Accelerator.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 5, 2024

Global technology company ZF officially opened the campus that will house four corporate function hubs for North America and the company’s first R&D centre in Mexico, on April 4, 2024. Martin Fischer, President of ZF North America and member of the Board of Management, emphasized the relevance of the Monterrey campus.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Tesla North America. Canada and Mexico are the top choices for Tesla’s new gigafactory in North America. The EV manufacturer has already established a good business relationship with the state government of Nuevo Leon. However, Jokowi emphasized his desire to build fully electric vehicles in the country.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

The investment positions Aleris to meet anticipated significant growth in North American automotive demand as the industry pursues broader aluminum use for the production of lighter, more fuel-efficient vehicles. Aleris has served the automotive industry from its facility in Duffel for many years.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Last quarter, a few documents and occurrences appeared to suggest that Tesla might build its next gigafactory in Canada. The Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry in Canada, Francois-Philippe Champagne (FPC), confirmed that he held talks with Tesla. Tesla Canada.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Meet the 17 Electric Auto Association members nominated for the National Board BY APRIL BOLDUC: PRESIDENT OF THE ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION It’s the most board candidates in our history. I am a "car guy" from Detroit and have worked in the auto industry from both a construction and facility service standpoint.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Meet the 17 Electric Auto Association members nominated for the National Board BY APRIL BOLDUC: PRESIDENT OF THE ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION It’s the most board candidates in our history. I am a "car guy" from Detroit and have worked in the auto industry from both a construction and facility service standpoint.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 18, 2023

OPTEL’s Optchain platform is a “digital control tower” that gives automakers and battery manufacturers an overview of their supply chains. Charged : I know traceability has always been important in certain industries. Do you provide a lot of services to the auto industry? But the auto industry, this is something new.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 31, 2022

“This lack of product is really weird,” John Murphy, a Bank of America analyst with a $1,300 price target on Tesla, said. From Tesla’s perspective, their multiple-year lead in software, EV infrastructure, batteries, and manufacturing, may give them peace of mind in knowing that there will be no more new car models this year.

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Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

The interesting thing is before electric cars were popular, no one in the auto industry or mainstream media even questioned where petrol or the metals used in engines are coming from. Here is another research paper from a traditional ICE car manufacturer - Volkswagen. tons of GHG (greenhouse gasses) per electric car [3].

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

EcoMotors International, a Khosla-funded startup working to commercialize a diesel opoc (opposed-piston, opposed-cylinder) engine ( earlier post ), has named auto industry veteran Donald Runkle as its new CEO. EcoMotors was founded in 2008 by Prof. Hofbauer is serving as EcoMotors’s Chief Technical Officer.

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

But very few consumers will come up with BrightDrop , the name GM has given to a new unit that builds electric commercial vehicles: full-size vans and even electric cargo containers. BrightDrop offers a fascinating window into the breadth of GM’s EV plans, though even many people in the auto industry know little about it.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 6, 2023

The Austin-based company has been launching new products and making strategic acquisitions to build complete solution-level capabilities for EV battery testing and validation, led by its automotive customers who don’t have time to build up the technology themselves. There is also a growing sense that a few EV winners could take all.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Prepare for eased/fast/self permitting of home/public charging installation; Ensure new home/building codes/major renovations provide for vehicle 240V charging. Provide rebate for vehicle purchasers (see above - $2,500/16 kWh vehicle); Provide and incentivize home/building charging installation electrical service (i.e. Earlier post.).

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Green Cars News

JULY 3, 2009

This failure, it believes, has prompted US car manufacturers to lose market share to foreign rivals and particularly those from Japan such as Toyota and Honda. It could be argued then that America is still drunk on cheap gasoline. Yet when gas prices tumbled later that year, plans for the Prius plant were shelved.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 11, 2009

If you listen to US President Barack Obama it has been a long time coming – his decision to pour $2.4billion of stimulus money to make America a global leader in electric and hybrid car development comes as the country plays catch up to the likes of Japan and even China in the green car race (see article ). “I Who will benefit?

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

The list of invitees was pretty impressive with representation from, “auto manufacturers like Nissan and GM, utilities such as PG&E and Duke Energy, IBM, P&G, Wal-Mart and Google, among many others&#. is where I feel Plug In America should be involved. Amory Lovins.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 2, 2007

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) held a rally in Sacramento Thursday outside the lobbying offices of the Association of Automobile Manufacturers to protest their continuing lawsuit against California's greenhouse gas legislation. And I was there representing Plug In America. And I was there representing Plug In America.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2021

Vertical integration: After reorganizing its powertrain activities to put planning, development, purchasing and production under one roof, Mercedes-Benz will deepen the level of vertical integration in manufacturing and development, and insource electric drive technology.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 24, 2022

CN seems to be hyper-focused on developing its green supply chain and catering to the auto industry. Also, the recently signed Inflation Reduction Act encourages automakers—legacy and startup alike—to secure supply chains in North America. . We are working fast for our workers and the auto industry.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. • MORE: "How to Build a 100 Mile-Per-Gallon Car. Among the dignitaries who will be on hand today for Brights announcement are executives from Frito-Lay North America. Yep, a truck.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

2050 net-zero strategy document , which explains how America will get to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. needs over 100 battery cell manufacturing locations by 2035” to meet the projected EV demand. The impact of EVs on auto manufacturing and supplier jobs is harder to assess. Neither does the U.S.

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Teslarati

JULY 19, 2022

General Motors ‘(GM) decision to invest $1 billion for EVs in Mexico instead of the United States is not the “EV leadership” that America needs. President Biden heaped a lot of syrupy sweet praise on the automaker for “electrifying the automotive industry” although we all know it was Tesla and not GM.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

These projects, selected through a highly competitive process by the Department of Energy (DOE), are intended to accelerate the development of US manufacturing capacity for batteries and electric drive components as well as the deployment of electric drive vehicles. Industry officials expect that this $2.4 Saft America, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

for construction of a manufacturing facility in southern California on the Model S electric sedan and a power-train manufacturing facility in Palo Alto, California. It will help build a customer base and begin laying the foundation for American leadership in the growing electric vehicles industry. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2009

Norway-based electric car maker Think plans to open a new manufacturing plant and technical center in the United States. The US is quickly overtaking Europe as an attractive market for EVs and is an ideal location to engineer and build EVs. The US plant will build the TH!NK —Richard Canny, Think CEO.

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Charged EVs

JULY 29, 2021

It’s the technical details of the E-GMP platform that underscore the company’s determination to build fully capable EVs. Once behind the steering wheel, [buyers] are going to be shocked by the [Ioniq 5’s] range, power, comfort, interior space and advanced technology,” said José Muñoz, CEO of Hyundai Motor America. 800-volt battery.

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Teslarati

APRIL 12, 2021

LG Chem argued that SK Innovation hired over 70 of its former employees to access sensitive information about battery manufacturing processes, then destroyed pertinent evidence to cover its tracks. .

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This can be accomplished by building upon the above EV and ICE vehicle policy recommendations, coupled with 100 percent methane capture, retiring all coal-fired electric generation as well as converting the US electric grid with 80 percent clean energy by 2030. and elsewhere, enough can even be manufactured to meet California’s need in time.

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Plug In Partners

MARCH 30, 2006

at 2318 Rayburn House Office Building) on the role of flexible-fuel plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) in reducing dependence on foreign oil, decreasing GHG and transportation emissions, revitalizing local economies, and lowering fuel costs. oil consumption, making it the single largest contributor to America's foreign oil dependence.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2014

Now, however, given all the market drivers facing the auto industry (regulations, fossil fuel availability, societal changes, etc.), Building an e-Golf: the basic production flow for the e-Golf at the Wolfsburg plant. California, and those states which have signed on to the California ZEV requirements).

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EV Adoption

MARCH 15, 2021

Honda of America plans to sell 2 fully electric SUVs in 2024, Based on GM’s Ultium Platform – Honda confirmed plans to sell two all-electric SUVs in the US for the 2024 model year, and it soon will offer hybrid gas-electric versions of its top-selling models. Dave Gardener, Sales Chief – Honda of America.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 31, 2021

According to the Asian auto industry gurus at ZoZo Go , it’s the strongest product debut in the history of four-wheeled vehicles. Lightning eMotors is a Colorado-based EV manufacturer that specializes in zero-emissions solutions for commercial fleets. Electrify America is partnering with Jeep to build the charging network.

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