article thumbnail

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

Teslarati

By the end of 2025, Toyota had said it hoped to reach a monthly BEV production of 10,000 units per month at a new plant in Kentucky, with hopes to build as many as 200,000 per year in the U.S. By comparison, Tesla sold roughly 1.31 million BEVs globally in 2022. alone by 2026.

Toyota 103
article thumbnail

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

Teslarati

Nikkei Asia noted on Tuesday that Toyota would start producing electric vehicles in Kentucky as early as 2025. Toyota’s EV production at its Kentucky plant is expected to work alongside the automaker’s battery plant, which is slated to start operations in North Carolina around 2025. million all-electric cars worldwide in 2022.

Toyota 64
article thumbnail

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

Teslarati

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.

Auto 145
article thumbnail

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

Green Car Congress

University of Kentucky Research Foundation will design, fabricate, install, and test a large-pilot facility that will illustrate an innovative carbon capture system integrated with an operating power plant. A secondary benefit is to show that this technology has a reduced footprint in comparison to competing baseline technologies.

Fuel 150
article thumbnail

Toyota was the most searched auto brand in 2023, but Tesla still dominates EV queries

Baua Electric

Studying the most searched auto and EV brands online While EVs continue to dominate the global mobility conversation, there are still plenty of hurdles to overcome before we can truly reach mass adoption. Still, gas and hybrid specialist Toyota remained the most searched auto brand, not by any specific state. Here’s how it was gathered.

Toyota 52
article thumbnail

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.

Market 91