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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. 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. Toyota sold 10.5 million units in 2030.

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Ford announces 11.4B investments on production and battery plants for its EV lineup

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billion in Tennessee and Kentucky for its electric vehicle production line. With the investments, Ford Motor Company plans to build environmentally and technologically advanced campuses in Tennessee (TN) and Kentucky (KY). The other two battery plants will be built in Kentucky and will generate up to 5,000 new jobs in the area.

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

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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 alone by 2026. Last year, Toyota sold under 25,000 BEVs, including those from the Lexus brand.

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US Coal companies merge: Murray Energy acquires controlling interest in Foresight Energy GP LLC for $1.395B

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As a point of comparison, Peabody Energy, the world’s largest coal company, with operations in the US and Australia, produced 227.2 million tons of combined production last year, according to the companies’ respective annual reports. Murray with ~65 million, Foresight with 22.5 million tons, about 83% of that (189 million tons) in the US.).

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UAW and Big Three ratify contracts with 64% of workers voting in favor

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By comparison, Ford passed the contract with around 69 percent voting in favor, while roughly 68 percent of Stellantis workers voted to adopt the updated contract. Ford CEO Jim Farley said on Monday that the automaker is moving to accelerate back to full production capacity in the days to come following the ratification of the UAW agreement.

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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.

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DOE Selects 8 Projects to Advance Technologies for the Co-Production of Power and Hydrogen, Fuels or Chemicals from Coal-Biomass Feedstocks

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CoalTek, teaming with the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research in Lexington, Ky., Partnering with the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Ky.; CoalTek, Inc. Tucker, Ga.) Duke University in Durham, N.C., and the University of North Dakota Energy and Environment Research Center in Grand Forks, N.D.,

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