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AUGUST 3, 2020

The company will start with an allocation of production that is distributed between itself and several Tier One sub-contractors in order to expedite the manufacturing ramp rate and delivery of motors to early customers. Linear Labs is expecting to manufacture and deliver at least 100,000 M200 motors by the end of 2021.

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APRIL 12, 2023

Kia held a groundbreaking ceremony for its dedicated plant for the production of battery-electric purpose-built vehicles (PBV). Kia will invest around one trillion KRW (approximately US$758 million) to secure 99,000 acres of land, with the company planning to start mass-production in the second half of 2025.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

Honda Motor (China) Investment Co., a Honda automobile production and sales joint venture in China, will build a new dedicated electric vehicle (EV) production plant to establish sufficient production system and capability in preparation for the expansion of its EV lineup in the coming years.

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JUNE 13, 2023

General Motors plans to invest $632 million in Fort Wayne Assembly to prepare the plant for production of the next-generation internal combustion engine (ICE) full-size light-duty trucks. Product details and timing related to GM’s future trucks are not being released at this time. billion since 2013.

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MAY 26, 2022

Lilium, developer of an all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) jet, is partnering with Honeywell and DENSO, who will co-develop and manufacture the Lilium Jet’s electric motor that will power the Lilium Jet’s engines. This lowers the component’s weight, manufacturing costs and susceptibility to foreign object damage.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ford Motor Company, LG Energy Solution and Koç Holding signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) to form a new joint venture subject to final agreement by all the parties to create one of Europe’s largest commercial electric vehicle battery cell facilities near Ankara, Turkey. Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Chinese EV manufacturer XPeng signed an agreement with the Zhaoqing Municipal Government and the Zhaoqing High Technology Industry Development Zone to build the Phase Two expansion project of the XPeng Zhaoqing Smart EV Manufacturing Base located in Guangdong Province. Zhaoqing Xpeng Motors Intelligent Industrial Park.

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MAY 24, 2024

Redwood Materials is partnering with General Motors to recycle the legacy automaker’s production scraps from its Ohio and Tennessee plants. Together, we’re building America’s battery supply chain,” said Redwood Materials. Redwood Materials has been making big strides in localizing battery production in North America.

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JANUARY 21, 2023

General Motors plans to invest $918 million in four US manufacturing sites, including $854 million to prepare these facilities to produce the company’s sixth-generation Small Block V-8 engine and an additional $64 million in Rochester, New York and Defiance, Ohio for castings and components to support EV production.

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JANUARY 20, 2022

Hyzon Motors, a leading supplier of heavy-duty hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles, announced a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Transform Materials, a provider of renewable hydrogen through its proprietary microwave reactor technology ( earlier post ). —David Soane, Transform Materials’ founder and CEO.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Ford Motor Company announced that its Kansas City Assembly Plant will build the all-new E-Transit van, part of a more than $3.2 billion investment in Ford’s North American manufacturing facilities to produce a series of new electric vehicles for commercial and retail customers. This will retain 225 jobs at the plant.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2022

EV-maker Faraday Future announced the arrival of intelligent manufacturing equipment from Guangzhou MINO Equipment Co., a top-tier automotive supplier offering advanced manufacturing solutions. Included in the shipment is critical equipment for the body assembly production line of the FF 91. Guangzhou MINO Equipment Co.,

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

billion to build a new electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing plant in Georgia. SK innovation is fitted with the entire value chain for mid/large-sized battery production from electrodes and separators to battery cells and packs. SK Group has been building relationships within the United States for decades.

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JUNE 21, 2023

At an Investor Day event in Seoul, Hyundai Motor said that it will accelerate its transition toward becoming a smart mobility solution provider by securing a large-scale investment of KRW 109.4 Production. The proportion of global EV production is set to increase from 8% this year to 34% in 2030. trillion (US$27.8

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AUGUST 31, 2022

Factorial Energy, a developer of solid-state battery technology for electric vehicle (EV) applications, will establish a new advanced manufacturing facility in the Boston suburb of Methuen, Mass. The new facility will produce Factorial’s new solid-state battery cell technology for EVs. Based in Woburn, Mass.,

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JANUARY 25, 2024

In a pivotal moment in the commercialization of hydrogen fuel cell systems, GM and Honda announced the start of production at their 50-50 joint venture production facility, FCSM. FCSM is the first large-scale manufacturing joint venture to build fuel cells.

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JUNE 9, 2023

Toyota Motor North America, Inc. In addition to working with current battery production, lab engineers will explore new battery configurations for future products. Toyota) will invest nearly $50 million to construct a new laboratory facility at its North American R&D headquarters in York Township, Mich.

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JULY 6, 2022

The automotive supplier MAHLE has developed what it says is the most durable electric motor available: the superior continuous torque (SCT) E-motor. The traction motor can run indefinitely with high performance due to its new cooling concept. Building large electric motors that deliver short-term high performance is easy.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

Ford announced that it intends to invest up to £230 million (US$316 million) at its Halewood vehicle transmission facility to transform it to build electric power units for future Ford all-electric passenger and commercial vehicles sold in Europe. Production capacity is planned to be around 250,000 units a year.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

BrightDrop, GM’s new business focused on electric last-mile deliveries ( earlier post ), has completed the first production builds of the EV600, a key milestone to deliver its first electric light commercial vehicle (eLCV) to FedEx Express in time for the holiday season.

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MARCH 4, 2023

Scout Motors, the recently formed independent company backed by Volkswagen Group ( earlier post , is establishing its first manufacturing plant near Columbia, South Carolina, where it will build electric next-generation trucks and rugged SUVs harkening back to the iconic Scout vehicles produced from 1960 to 1980.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

LOTTE Chemical announced a joint venture with LOTTE Aluminium to build a manufacturing facility in Elizabethtown, Kentucky to produce 36,000 tons of cathode foil, a type of ultra-thin aluminum foil that is a core material used in EV batteries. Beshear and leaders from Ford Motor Co. In September 2021, Gov.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Cirba Solutions (previously Retriev Solutions, LLC) has extended a prior agreement with General Motors (GM) to recycle electric vehicle (EV) lithium-ion battery and cell scrap generated by manufacturing and research at select GM facilities through 2024.

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MAY 31, 2023

Daimler Truck Holding AG, Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC), Hino Motors Ltd. Hino) and Toyota Motor Corporation concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on accelerating the development of advanced technologies and merging MFTBC and Hino.

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MARCH 3, 2022

In Seoul, Hyundai Motor Company unveiled a strategic roadmap to accelerate its electrification ambition as it pursues sustainable progress for the company. Presentation of Jaehoon Chang, President and CEO of Hyundai Motor Company. Optimizing EV manufacturing capacity. Hyundai also presented its mid-to long-term financial goals.

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JUNE 13, 2023

Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation are reorganizing their joint research and development (R&D) organization to be able to respond flexibly to the rapidly changing global automotive industry, advance the transition to electrification and accelerate the development of Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs).

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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. Ghent is currently preparing to take a second fully electric Volvo model, based on the CMA modular vehicle architecture, into production later this year.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

General Motors will invest $760 million at its Toledo, Ohio propulsion manufacturing operations to prepare the facility for production of drive units that will be used in future Ultium-based battery electric trucks, including the Chevrolet Silverado EV, GMC Sierra EV and GMC HUMMER EVs. billion at Toledo since 2011.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The BMW Group and Great Wall Motor have launched a new joint venture—Spotlight Automotive Limited—and are building a joint plant in China, where the BMW Group will produce future fully-electric models of its MINI brand. At that point, the BMW Group will offer five fully-electric production vehicles.

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APRIL 26, 2023

General Motors and Samsung SDI plan to invest more than $3 billion to build a new battery cell manufacturing plant in the United States that is targeted to begin operations in 2026. The plant will have more than 30 GWh of capacity and will bring GM’s total US battery cell capacity to about 160 GWh when it is at full production.

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APRIL 9, 2023

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MAY 26, 2021

In its report of first quarter 2021 financial results and outlook, Lordstown Motors, a startup developing electric light duty trucks focused on the commercial fleet market ( earlier post ), said that the expected production of its Endurance full-size electric pickup in 2021 will be limited—at best 50% of prior expectations.

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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. The new factory to be built will be Nidec’s fifth traction motor-related production site, and the fourth E-Axle assembly plant, in China. Rendering of the plant.

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JUNE 14, 2023

Joseph County, creating 1,700 manufacturing jobs. The new battery cell plant, a joint venture between General Motors and Samsung SDI ( earlier post ), is scheduled to begin operations in 2026. Construction of the battery plant is planned to begin within the next year and support more than 1,000 jobs during the build.

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APRIL 17, 2021

Ultium Cells LLC, a joint venture of LG Energy Solution and General Motors, will invest more than $2.3 billion to build its second battery cell manufacturing plant in the United States. Early conceptual rendering of Ultium Cells LLC battery cell manufacturing facility in Spring Hill, Tennessee.

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JULY 29, 2021

Hyundai Motor Group (the Group) and LG Energy Solution have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Indonesia to establish a joint venture (JV) in Indonesia to manufacture battery cells for BEVs. Under the MoU, Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution will invest a total of US$1.1

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MARCH 19, 2024

General Motors’ (GM) battery plant in Michigan, named Factory Zero, is leaving production hell. General Motors has been experiencing its own version of production hell with Factory Zero. The term ‘production hell’ was first coined when Tesla struggled to ramp up Model 3 production a few years ago.

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