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LGES & Honda battery plant in Ohio starts construction on $3.5 billion facility

Teslarati

The cells will go to Honda’s automobile manufacturing plans producing electric vehicles for the North American market. The Honda-LGES battery plant hints at the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) strong influence in the automobile industry. Honda and LGES have worked hard to get the community surrounding its battery facility.

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NRC report finds Federal analysis to set LD CAFE and GHG standards generally of high quality; some technologies and issues should be re-examined

Green Car Congress

The Agencies should continue to conduct and review empirical evidence for the cost reductions that occur in the automobile industry with volume, especially for large volume technologies that will be relied on to meet the CAFE/GHG standards. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2015. National Research Council.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). Because nobody has fully figured out the optimum use of lithium-ion batteries in automobiles. I got beaten down a number of times." This is unusual.

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