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Toyota to produce electric cars in the US as early as 2025: report

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Nikkei Asia noted on Tuesday that Toyota would start producing electric vehicles in Kentucky as early as 2025. The company will reportedly utilize an existing factory that would allow it to produce electric cars alongside combustion-powered vehicles. That 24,000 already includes vehicles sold under the company’s luxury Lexus brand.

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Toyota boosts BEV production target to 600,000 units in 2025: report

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However, a new report shows that the Japanese company is now looking to accelerate into BEVs faster than initially planned, with an updated production target for the year after next. By comparison, Tesla sold roughly 1.31 million BEVs globally in 2022. alone by 2026. What are your thoughts?

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Tesla’s Fremont Factory was the most productive auto factory in the U.S. in 2021

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For comparison, Toyota’s plant in Georgetown, Kentucky built 8,427 cars per week, BMW’s facility in South Carolina managed 8,343 units per week, and Ford’s Dearborn, Michigan hub managed just 5,564 vehicles weekly. 2020 and 2021 were arguably the darkest years of the global automotive market in recent memory.

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DOE awards ~$25M to 8 projects for CO2 capture and compression; $15M for novel Direct Fuel Cell system

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The next largest award, for $4 million, goes to Dresser-Rand Company to design, build, and test a pilot-scale, supersonic CO 2 compressor applicable to new and existing coal-based electric generating plants. A secondary benefit is to show that this technology has a reduced footprint in comparison to competing baseline technologies.

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The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets

Cars That Think

By some estimates, upwards to 80,000 auto workers and a similar number in the auto supply chain have already been laid off globally to support the EV transition. By some estimates , upwards to 80,000 auto workers and a similar number in the auto supply chain have already been laid off globally to support the EV transition.

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