Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Nissan said today it has opened a plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, to fabricate lithium-ion cells for electric-car batteries. Just two years after the first Nissan Leaf was sold in the U.S., The first cells built at the plant have completed the necessary aging process, and can now be charged for the first time.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2022

This week marks the final pre-build phase before accelerating into mass production of F-150 Lightning trucks for retail customers and F-150 Lightning Pro for commercial customers. These production-level trucks will be used for testing in real-world customer conditions, collectively accumulating 1 million miles. Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

APRIL 15, 2024

GM is currently preparing for landscaping, the creation of retention ponds, and the installation of essential utilities for the main building at the site. The South Korean company was supposed to help GM build its fourth Ultium battery plant. In 2022, The US Energy Department finalized a $2.5 and LG Energy Solution, Ultium Cells LLC.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Novonix is expected to ship synthetic graphite from Tennessee starting in 2025. Third Panasonic EV battery plant in the US is still possible The Japanese energy company aims to reduce the carbon footprint in the entire lithium-ion battery supply chain for electric vehicles by 50% compared to 2022 levels.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2023

The new strategic partnership will see the companies collaborate to develop industrialized anode materials that will be incorporated into SKO’s advanced lithium-ion batteries used in its US gigafactories. In the US, SKO has two battery manufacturing plants in Commerce, Georgia, with the second plant scheduled to be operational in 2023.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2023

Under the agreement, GM will provide Element 25 with a US$85-million loan to partially fund the construction of a new facility in the state of Louisiana for production of battery-grade high-purity manganese sulfate (HPMSM)—a key component in lithium-ion battery cathodes—starting in 2025.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

billion in Tennessee and Kentucky for its electric vehicle production line. With the investments, Ford Motor Company plans to build environmentally and technologically advanced campuses in Tennessee (TN) and Kentucky (KY). Ford plans to build a $5.6 Ford announced its plans to invest $11.4

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Teslarati

APRIL 17, 2023

For instance, GM entered into a joint venture with LG Energy Solution to build lithium-ion battery cell manufacturing facilities in Ohio, Tennessee, and Michigan. “We General Motors heavily invested in battery minerals and battery facilities in the United States to meet the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ford Motor Company will build two new massive, environmentally and technologically advanced campuses in Tennessee and Kentucky that will produce the next generation of electric F-Series trucks and the batteries to power future electric Ford and Lincoln vehicles. —Tennessee Gov. An all-new $5.6-billion

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Clean Manufacturing – Further reducing the environmental footprint of Ford’s operations through renewable energy, sustainable water and wastewater management, waste management, and energy-efficient buildings.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 9, 2024

Aqua Metals has developed a process for recycling lithium-ion batteries that it says is much cleaner, more efficient and more cost-effective than current methods (see our recent in-depth interview with company execs ). At full scale, Aqua will provide 30% of the nickel and lithium carbonate needed at 6K’s PlusCAM facility.

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Teslarati

JULY 28, 2021

In an attempt to keep up with the growing market of car manufacturers and other transportation companies transitioning to electrification, Redwood knows that the demand for lithium-ion batteries and other materials crucial to their operation will need to be reused. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund portfolio manager Joe Fath said. “In

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2009

Plans call for new electric-car assembly lines to be built at a plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, the location of Nissan North America Inc.’s Nissan intends to construct a production facility for high-capacity lithium ion batteries at the Smyrna site by joining hands with the NEC Corp. The Nikkei reports that Nissan Motor Co.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In a press release , Stellantis announced a joint venture with LG Energy Solution to produce lithium-ion batteries in North America. The automaker plans to start building a new battery plant by Q1 2024. Along with SK Innovation, the legacy automaker plans to invest in three battery plants in Tennessee and Kentucky.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2010

manufacturing plant to produce the all-electric Nissan LEAF and the lithium-ion battery packs to power them. When fully operational, the vehicle assembly plant will have the capacity to build 150,000 Nissan LEAF electric cars per year, and the new plant will have an annual capacity of 200,000 battery packs. Earlier post.).

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Nissan is a first tier OEM building a pure EV in the U.S. - They’re going to hit the market next fall, but will target Tennessee (where they will be made) and Oregon and Sonoma County, initially. Check out the article: Nissan to launch electric car in Tennessee. for sale to regular folks. A top Nissan official in the U.S.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 23, 2023

The money is earmarked for the construction of three battery factories in the US, one in Tennessee and two in Kentucky. The US Department of Energy Loan Program Office has approved a $9.2 billion conditional loan for Blue Oval SK, a joint venture between Ford and SK On. The factories are expected to provide jobs

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2011

DB has lowered its advanced lithium-ion battery cost projection by about 30% for 2012. Developments that were negative for global gasoline demand included : Rapidly falling lithium-ion battery prices, and steepening expected cost reduction curves for both batteries and electric drive components. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2009

In conjunction with the opening of its new, environmentally-focused global headquarters building in Yokohama, Japan, Nissan Motor Co., A 24 kWh pack of laminated lithium-ion batteries from Nissan JV AESC delivers output of more than 90kW to power a synchronous AC motor delivering 80 kW (107 hp) of power and torque of 280 N·m (207 lb-ft).

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Green Cars News

JUNE 29, 2009

It is asking for low-interest rate loans from the US government and is said to be planning to pour at least $518million into the production of a fleet of electric cars, which will be produced at its North American headquarters in Smyrna, Tennessee. Tags: Electric cars Green cars Latest news Nissan Tennessee U.S.A

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2022

Importantly for scalability, the cell-level cost of the aluminum–sulfur battery is projected to be less than one-sixth that of current lithium-ion technologies. I wanted to invent something that was better, much better, than lithium-ion batteries for small-scale stationary storage, and ultimately for automotive.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Clean Fleet Report spent a day driving the 2023 Outlander PHEV at a media-only event in Nashville, Tennessee, experiencing highways, country roads, city traffic and some sloppy, muddy driving. kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery is fully charged. The Outlander powertrain. Guaranteed they have no interest in losing that claim.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Battery Powered Zero Emission Circulator Buses: Innovative Quick Opportunity Charge, Lithium-Ion Titanate Battery Powered Community Bus program. The facility is a 70,000 square foot building located in an industrial zone in Lowell, Massachusetts. Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority, Tennessee: $650,000.

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Baua Electric

MAY 3, 2024

6K’s UniMelt production system is capable of producing multiple lithium-ion battery materials, including NMC, LFP, lithium salts and alkaline battery CAM. 6K is currently building its flagship PlusCAM plant in Jackson, Tennessee, which is expected to start production in 2025.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

EVs require automakers to design new manufacturing processes and build plants to make both EVs and their batteries. billion to produce F-Series EVs and batteries in Stanton, Tennessee, for example, while GM is spending $2 billion to produce its new Cadillac LYRIQ EVs in Spring Hill, Tennessee. Ford and its. Herb Simon.

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Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 23, 2021

Lithium-ion batteries . In terms of battery, the efficient, reliable and cost-effective mass production of lithium cells is much important in the growing EV market. 211 announced lithium-ion battery factories. Less battery manufacturing capacity leads to supply chain risks. Today, battery capacity in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The University of Tennessee will develop a technology that. manufacturing process for lithium-ion batteries that reduces. Lithium-Rich Anti-Perovskites as. The University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) will develop a new, fire-resistant electrolyte to make today’s Lithium-ion (Li-ion). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 23, 2023

The three way partnership is development battery crops in Kentucky and Tennessee able to jointly generating greater than 120 gigawatt hours every year. billion to backup finance development of Ultium’s brandnew lithium-ion battery crops, together with Warren. ” In April, the UAW and U.S.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

They have manufacturing space in Tennessee, and they have repurposing programs through their North American headquarters, so we can source, procure and quality-control batteries directly from them. Antoni Tong: Qualification is extremely important for our business model, and we hope to build a differentiating approach in that space.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2013

First up is a quick look at the two advanced neutron-scattering facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, which Green Car Congress recently had the opportunity to tour: the newer (2006) $1.4-billion The SNS has plans for a second cluster of instruments in a new building to be built alongside the existing facility.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JULY 14, 2009

That bet takes shape at a new lithium ion battery plant and at an electric-vehicle assembly line that Nissan will build at its Smyrna, Tenn., “Customers have already been asking about the cars since the news broke about Nissan’s plans to build the car here in Tennessee.&#. manufacturing complex.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 25, 2022

At Volkswagen’s live-streamed “Power Day” in March —a seeming hat-tip to Tesla’s “Battery Day” spectacle —CEO Herbert Diess set off his own Muskian frenzy by announcing VW would build a half-dozen gigafactories in Europe by 2030, with a total of 240 gigawatt-hours of capacity. VW is already building EV factories in Tennessee and China.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

However, the electric drive portion of the vehicles, including the motor, electronics and A123 System lithium ion battery pack is identical. A123Systems will manufacture Nanophosphate Lithium ion prismatic battery cells, modules and battery packs for Chrysler LLC.

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