Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2023

Volta Trucks has started series production of the 16-tonne all-electric Volta Zero at Steyr Automotive, the company’s partner in contract manufacturing, in Steyr, Austria. Steyr Automotive offers Volta Trucks more than 100 years of manufacturing experience building commercial vehicles.

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All-Electric Production Austria Electric 459

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2023

Alkegen has begun commercial production of its silicon fiber anode material platform, SiFAB. The company’s new SiFAB production line is an extension of its established large-scale manufacturing facility in New Carlisle, Indiana. Multi-batch samples of SiFAB are available for qualification now.

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Green Car Congress

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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Teslarati

JANUARY 25, 2024

In the recent TSLA earnings call, Tesla executives shared that Cybertruck 2024 builds will be sold out soon. The comment hints at Tesla’s progress with its Cybertruck production ramp. At the recent earnings call, a few TSLA investor questions centered around the Tesla Cybertruck and its production. Retail investor Nermin S.

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Building Production Tesla North America 122

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2022

Polestar, the Swedish electric performance car company, confirmed plans to put the Polestar electric roadster concept into production. The production car is expected to launch in 2026 as the Polestar 6 electric performance roadster. Interested customers in all active Polestar markets are now able to reserve a build slot online.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Emerson will deliver advanced automation technologies, software and products to enable BayoTech to build hundreds of hydrogen units. The higher payloads translate into lower transportation costs, higher driver productivity and less carbon emissions.

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Low Cost Hydrogen Production Albuquerque 406

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Air Products and The AES Corporation plan to invest approximately $4 billion to build, own and operate a green hydrogen production facility in Wilbarger County, Texas. This mega-scale renewable power to hydrogen project includes approximately 1.4

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2022

Topsoe intends to construct the world’s largest and most advanced industrial-scale electrolyzer production plant. With our new electrolyzer production plant, we lead the way in speeding up commercial-size Power-to-X solutions, and we do it with our highly innovative technology that outmatches technologies currently in the market.

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Power Powered Production Denmark 418

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) announced an investment into battery pack production at its excavator plant in Changwon, South Korea. The Changwon plant in South Korea specializes in the production of excavators and is the biggest excavator production site in Volvo CE. With the SEK 80-million (around $7.8-million)

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Green Car Congress

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. BrightDrop EV410.

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Green Car Congress

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.

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Teslarati

MAY 12, 2024

General Motors (GM) is investing $390 million in Kansas for next-gen Chevy Bolt EV production. Last week, General Motors announced that it would end Chevy Malibu production, one of the last gas-powered sedans Chevrolet offers in the United States. The legacy automaker plans to end Chevy Malibu production by November 2024.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Fresh off a successful crowdfunding program to gain capital and secure slots for its first 2,000 solar EV builds, Aptera Motors is offering a peek at its production-intent design currently being finalized in Italy. See more in the video below.

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Aptera Solar Building Italy 117

Electric Cars Report

DECEMBER 25, 2023

BYD, Chinese leading electric vehicle manufacturer, announced the next stage of its European strategy with the construction of a brand-new manufacturing and production centre in Szeged, Hungary. The factory […] The post BYD to Build EV Factory in Hungary for Localised Production in Europe appeared first on Electric Cars Report.

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Teslarati

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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Electrek

APRIL 1, 2024

This month’s progress update recaps a recent visit to France, details an upcoming trip to the United Arab Emirates, and talks about the status of Aptera’s first production-intent solar EV builds. Watch the video in full below.

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Teslarati

MAY 7, 2024

Protesters at Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin have caused a slight impact on the company’s production schedule at the plant. Tesla will not open on Friday for production, and all employees will be required to work from home to avoid issues with the protesters at the plant. I’d love to hear from you!

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Production Tesla Building 2020 96

Green Car Reports

JULY 19, 2023

General Motors has paused production at a plant in Ontario, Canada, due to a shortage of batteries, according to the local London Free Press. The Cami Assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, builds BrightDrop electric vans, but has been closed for a month due to a reported battery shortage.

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Teslarati

MAY 2, 2024

Rivian has won a massive $827 million incentive package from the State of Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity, which will be used to expand the R2 production facility in Normal, Illinois. Rivian’s Georgia plant remains an extremely important part of its strategy to scale production of R2 and R3.

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Electrek

MARCH 20, 2024

General Motors (GM) looks to get back on track this year as executives believe EV “production hell” is behind it. After missing EV sales targets for the past two years, will 2024 be the year of execution, as GM says it will?

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GM General Motors Production Building 144

CN EV Post

AUGUST 12, 2022

NIO's battery swap station plant in Hungary will be operational in September, about two hours from CATL's planned battery production base in the country. The post CATL to build €7.34 billion battery production base in Hungary appeared first on CnEVPost. For more articles, please visit CnEVPost.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The Polestar 3 has officially begun production in Chengdu, China, before its first deliveries. The third bespoke model, which is also Polestar’s first electric SUV, has a lot riding on its success in multiple markets. It will also be built in the US, and Polestar provided an update on that progress.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 24, 2024

Honda has struck a deal with the governments of Canada and Ontario that will lead to building a battery factory for electric cars. The post Honda EV Production Plan For Canada Comes Into Focus appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Canada Honda Production Building 101

Green Car Reports

APRIL 26, 2024

Toyota announced on Thursday that it plans to build a new three-row battery-electric SUV in Princeton, Indiana, with a corresponding $1.4 billion investment in the automaker’s Kentucky plant, to build a separate three-row. billion investment in the plant.

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Electric Cars Report

APRIL 11, 2023

Kia held a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday for its dedicated plant for the production of battery-electric purpose-built vehicles (PBV).

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Teslarati

MAY 7, 2024

After electric vehicle (EV) maker Fisker halted production at its contract manufacturer’s plant in Austria, the company has now filed for reorganization and court protection in the country. Fisker has also officially halted production of its Ocean EV at a plant in Graz, Austria , which is run by its contracted manufacturer Magna Steyr.

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Teslarati

MARCH 28, 2024

Ford is cutting its F-150 Lightning production workforce by two-thirds as the company continues to try and ramp manufacturing of electric vehicles and work toward profitability. This amounts to 700 production employees. “Their intentions were to build 180,000-plus units. The remaining third of workers will remain on-site.

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Electrek

APRIL 12, 2024

Aptera Motors is touting its latest milestone en route to solar EV production later this year. The first production body of its flagship vehicle has made its way over from Italy to Aptera’s headquarters in San Diego, enabling the team to finalize its design ahead of production-intent builds.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 31, 2023

When asked on the podcast how many Cybertrucks Tesla can make in a month, Musk told Rogan that Tesla is looking to build around 200,000 Cybertrucks per year upon scaling production. “We’re We’re aiming to make about 200,000 a year at volume production,” Musk said.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 15, 2024

We’ve been hearing about the Chevy Silverado EV for what seems like forever, but the first mainstream models have finally entered production. The automaker is building the top RST version of the truck at its Detroit-Hamtramck plant, where it also makes the basic Work Truck (WT) configuration.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 19, 2024

Cadillac’s $340,000 Celestiq electric vehicle has officially entered production, according to the company’s Vice President John Roth. seconds, and an array of luxury features. ” There is no indication of how many units Cadillac or GM is planning to bring to market. I’d love to chat!

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CN EV Post

JULY 31, 2022

The post Ganfeng Lithium plans to build China's largest solid-state battery production base appeared first on CnEVPost. Ganfeng's Chongqing-based project will have 10 GWh of battery capacity and 10 GWh of pack capacity when completed. For more articles, please visit CnEVPost.

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Building China Batteries Battery 131

Teslarati

APRIL 16, 2023

Tesla Gigafactory Mexico is expected to take longer to build because the company is working on a new production line for its $25k compact car. Governor Samuel García Sepúlveda recently announced that Tesla Gigafactory Mexico would take around 12 to 15 months to build–longer than it took Tesla China to build Giga Shanghai.

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Mexico Building Tesla Production 130

Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Production and shipments of the Ford F-150 Lightning have been stopped, though sales continue. On Tuesday, Ford spokesperson Emma Bergg confirmed to Green Car Reports a stop-build and in-transit stop-ship order has been given for the F-150 Lightning pickup truck due to a potential battery issue.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Tesla Cybertruck production at Giga Texas is slowly ramping up, according to new images from outside the factory. Tesla order configurator revealed for ‘Foundation Series’ Cybertruck The biggest bottleneck in terms of production of the Cybertruck for Tesla will be adapting to a new process for such a unique and unorthodox truck.

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Texas Production Tesla Building 142

Teslarati

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The facility temporarily halted its Model Y production from January 29 to February 11 due to Houthi attacks on freighters in the Red Sea. From February 12, 2024, however, production of the best-selling all-electric crossover is expected to restart. The milestone was reached before the temporary production halt.

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Electrek

JUNE 29, 2022

Samsung SDI is reportedly setting up a new pilot production line to build 4680 battery cells for Tesla. The post Tesla 4680 cell: Samsung is building a pilot production line to build the new battery appeared first on Electrek.

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