Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2022

SK On, a global electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturer, signed a lithium supply deal with Australia’s Lake Resources ( earlier post ), a move that will further strengthen its key battery materials supply chain in response to robust business growth and geopolitical risks. They are expected to be operational from 2025. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

the parent company of the Tokyo-based specialty chemicals group Toyo Ink Group, has established a new manufacturing subsidiary, LioChem e-Materials LLC, for the production of Lioaccum conductive carbon nanotube (CNT) dispersions used in lithium-ion battery (LiB) cathodes. Toyo Ink SC Holdings Co., in Georgia.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Swedish freight technology company Einride and GE Appliances (GEA), a Haier company, are partnering for the implementation of electric and autonomous transport at scale. At launch, Einride will implement electric transportation solutions at three of GEA’s locations in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2023

The new 30 GWh battery plant builds on AESC’s existing battery manufacturing network that includes a plant in operation in Tennessee and another plant under construction in Kentucky. Aligning with the company’s global commitment to sustainability, the new manufacturing plant will be 100% powered by clean energy.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2023

US-based graphite processor Urbix ( earlier post ) announced a Joint Development Agreement with global EV battery developer and manufacturer SK On (SKO). Headquartered in Seoul, SKO is a global Tier 1 cell-maker, with major battery plants operating and under construction across Asia, the US and Europe.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2009

The Commonwealth of Kentucky, the University of Kentucky (UK) and University of Louisville (U of L) are partnering with the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory to establish a national Battery Manufacturing R&D Center to help develop and deploy a domestic supply of advanced battery technologies for vehicle applications.

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Electrek

MAY 31, 2023

Toyota’s largest plant globally is going electric. The company revealed Wednesday it would assemble its new three-row electric SUV at its Georgetown, Kentucky, facility starting in 2025. The new SUV will be Toyota’s first US-assembled EV as the market continues to surpass expectations.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2022

Global lithium ion production capacity could reach over 6,000 GWh (6 TWh) by the end of the decade based on current plans, as companies accelerate gigafactory construction in Europe and the US, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. LG Energy Solutions said it would invest KRW 1.7 trillion (US$1.4

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2022

The company detailed its global vehicle portfolio plans supporting these production goals as part of its Ford+ plan. Ford expects a compound annual growth rate for EVs to exceed 90% through 2026, more than double forecasted global industry growth. 150,000 F-150 Lightnings for North America.

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Teslarati

MAY 6, 2022

CATL is now moving closer to locking in a plant in the United States, according to an exclusive report from Reuters , which said the Chinese battery maker is now vetting sites in South Carolina and Kentucky. CATL is now in talks to serve BMW AG and Ford Motor Company. Talks are currently ongoing, according to two anonymous sources.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2018

the leading producer of flat-rolled aluminum products and the world’s largest recycler of aluminum, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aleris Corporation, a global supplier of aerospace and automotive rolled aluminum products, for approximately $2.6 Novelis Inc., billion including the assumption of debt.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

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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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. An all-new $5.6-billion billion mega-campus in Stanton, Tenn. (a

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

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. million BEVs globally in 2022. alone by 2026. Last year, Toyota sold under 25,000 BEVs, including those from the Lexus brand. What are your thoughts?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2022

Ford Motor Company plans to raise production of the F-150 Lightning pickup at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn to 150,000 trucks per year to meet high demand, Beginning Thursday, the first group of reservation holders will be invited to place their orders for the F-150 Lightning. Earlier post.).

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All Cars Electric

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Global Green Cars, a partially owned subsidiary of Utah based Green Star Products, recently announced plans to move its operations to Williamsburg Kentucky from the current location in Idaho. The company reportedly plans on completing the transition of its personnel and operations by October 2009.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

manufacturing plant will begin generating electricity—1 megawatt per hour—from methane, a byproduct of trash decomposition at the nearby Central Kentucky Landfill on 23 November, 2015. Toyota Georgetown’s project began in 2010 when the two companies met to discuss the potential. Toyota’s Georgetown, Ky.,

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Baua Electric

APRIL 24, 2024

The additions will give the company 18 franchised dealerships in seven states—North Carolina, New York, Texas, Florida, Kansas, Connecticut, and Kentucky—since the start of a pivot to a dealer model last year. That’s on top of 15 company-owned stores and service centers in California—the nation’s largest EV market.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 27, 2024

That complements the other Toyota 3-row electric SUV set to be made in Kentucky in 2025. According to reports, the Indiana-built EV could be a Highlander EV, while the Kentucky model might incorporate all the leading-edge manufacturing methods Toyota has suggested in recent years are on the way. dealerships to sell its EVs.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

—the regional headquarters for the Americas within the global operations of Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.—is a Hitachi Automotive Systems Group company, for assembly into the battery packs at Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas’ Kentucky plant. Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.—the Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

American Battery Technology Company , Large-Scale Demonstration of Domestic Manufacturing of Low-Cost and Low- Environmental Impact Battery-Grade Lithium Hydroxide from Unconventional Domestic Sedimentary Resources, $57,744,831. It will produce enough material to supply more than 250,000 electric vehicles annually.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2015

We will work with a variety of public and private partners to ultimately create jobs and boost global manufacturing competitiveness. BASF Company; Boeing Company; Celanese International; Continental Structural Plastics; Convergent Manufacturing Technologies; Cytec Engineered Materials; Dassault Systemes Americas Corp.;

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2017

Ford announced a series of global manufacturing actions centered on improving the company’s operational fitness, among them that it would source the next-generation Ford Focus for North America primarily from China, rather than Hermosillo, Mexico. —Joe Hinrichs, Ford executive vice president and president, Global Operations.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 24, 2022

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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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2017

UPS has deployed more than 4,400 natural gas vehicles and a network of fueling stations, said Mark Wallace, UPS senior vice president global engineering and sustainability. The company has driven more than one billion miles since 2000 with its alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet. million gallons of renewable natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Location data and technology company HERE Technologies, in conjunction with SBD Automotive, a global automotive research firm, published an interactive index that shows the developing state of electric vehicle (EV) demand and infrastructure readiness across the United States and Europe.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2016

Taken together, all of our alternative fuel vehicles represent 6% of the more than 100,000 UPS global fleet, and have driven a 10% annual reduction in use of conventional fuel. —Mark Wallace, UPS senior vice president global engineering and sustainability.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

The acquisition will be underwritten by Global Private Funding Inc. Global), a private equity lender, by way of their Business Incubation Program. USF is planning a first facility located near Central City in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Global), who will provide debt based financing to support the equity-based investments.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas—the regional headquarters for the Americas within the global operations of Hitachi Automotive Systems—is supplying lithium-ion battery packs for the 2014 Nissan Pathfinder Hybrid sport utility vehicle now on sale in North America. Hitachi Vehicle Energy , Ltd. is a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 19, 2021

billion EV battery plant to produce in-house cells under a new company. Along with SK Innovation, the legacy automaker plans to invest in three battery plants in Tennessee and Kentucky. Even now, some automakers are unsure about the future of EVs in the global car market. Ford plans to invest $11.4

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

and Duke Energy last week announced a 10-year commitment to transition their company cars and trucks to plug-in hybrid or all-electric vehicles. The announcement was made during the Clinton Global Initiative ’s (CGI) fifth annual meeting in New York City. 2010, when both companies will begin tracking their commitment.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Babcock & Wilcox Company. In Phase I, the company will complete an EIV and host site characterization; develop a cost estimate for the design, construction, and operation of a modular 10 MWe pilot plant; and assemble the project team and secure cost share commitments for future phases. Phase I projects. Organization. Description.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Global demand for critical minerals needed to decarbonize the nation’s economy is expected to increase by 400-600% over the next several decades and the US is increasingly dependent on foreign sources, some adversarial, for many of the processed versions of these minerals. University of Kentucky Research Foundation.

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Green Cars News

MAY 2, 2009

In April, the company, along with international consortium partner Global Green Cars, publicly tested its first full electric vehicle at tracks in Utah and Kentucky. The company is hopeful that over an eight hour delivery day simulation, the plug-in hybrid will exceed 150 miles with efficiency of more than 75mpg.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 1, 2023

The few companies that have access to graphite mines in North America are the belles of the EV ball at the moment. The company is currently building a graphite processing plant in Kellyton, Alabama. It’s amazing what the IRA is driving in terms of new companies and investment. Take Westwater as an example.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2012

By utilizing the captured carbon emissions to recover added oil and natural gas resources, CCUS provides an additional strong business and market case for companies or organizations looking to pursue the environmental benefits of CCS. University of Kentucky Research Foundation.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

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. Click to enlarge. Supersonic CO 2 compression. Partners are the Linde Group, BASF, Burns & McDonnell, and Affiliated Engineers Inc.

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