Teslarati

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It seems like legacy automakers, including Toyota, Stellantis, Ford, and General Motors, are starting to embrace the EV transition. The remaining two automakers that make up the Detroit 3—Ford and General Motors—announced battery investment plans a few weeks before Stellantis. Toyota’s US Battery Plant. Ford announces 11.4B

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Unionized Ford workers in Louisville, Kentucky, and General Motors employees from Spring Hill, Tennessee, have voted no on the contract agreement reached by the United Auto Workers. & On Monday, production workers at the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant and Louisville Assembly Plant voted against the tentative agreement.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Farley believes the plants in Michigan, Kentucky, and Illinois that were affected by the UAW’s strike are “on track to reach full production schedules in the coming days.” Ford CEO Jim Farley said that the automaker is working to get production and deliveries back to full capacity after ratifying its contract with the UAW.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

” Last year, the UAW successfully launched a historic, six-week strike against the “Big Three” automakers of Michigan, Ford, General Motors (GM) and Dodge-Chrysler parent company Stellantis, garnering record pay increases. Ford and UAW reached a tentative local agreement at Kentucky plant What are your thoughts?

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Thankfully, we are on track to reach full production schedules in the coming days at our assembly plants in Michigan, Kentucky and Illinois that were affected during the strike. Image: Ford Motor Co.] Now, we are getting back to work as one Ford team. Become a& TTAC insider.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Things have ramped up since then, with an estimated 40,000 union members working at Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis striking as additional plants were targeted. Hitting Stellantis’ Sterling Heights truck plant is highly reminiscent of the recent walkout seen at Ford's Kentucky Truck assembly plant.

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Teslarati

MARCH 18, 2024

plant at which workers have filed to hold an election, after the UAW successfully garnered record pay increases in a historic six-week strike against Ford, General Motors (GM) and Dodge-Chrysler owner Stellantis last year. This also marks the first non-union U.S.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Workers represented by the United Auto Workers (UAW) union at Ford, General Motors (GM), and Stellantis have voted to ratify the recently proposed contracts following a historic six-week strike that began when the previous contracts expired.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2012

has entered into an additional agreement with General Motors for a second advanced technology development program. Westport Innovations Inc. Westport and GM are now developing two different combustion, controls and emissions approaches to natural gas engines. The first cooperative technology project was announced in June 2011.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 24, 2023

General Motors (GM) and Stellantis have announced plans to furlough hundreds more workers, just after the United Auto Workers (UAW) expanded strikes against both automakers this week. Just a couple of weeks ago, 8,700 workers also walked out at Ford’s profitable Kentucky Truck Plant.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 23, 2023

UAW-represented workers walked off the job at the Sterling Heights, Michigan plant on Monday, with the UAW saying that Stellantis had the “worst proposal” on the table compared to fellow “Big Three” automakers General Motors (GM) and Ford (via Reuters ).

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Teslarati

JANUARY 18, 2023

On top of its production expansion, it is working with partner SK On to construct its first-ever battery production location in Kentucky. Tesla, General Motors, and Dodge are all rushing towards producing their electric trucks in the coming year(s), and if Ford wants to hold onto its lead, it will have to ramp production aggressively.

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Teslarati

APRIL 11, 2023

Ford received terrible news from its first quarter sales results ; its long-time rival General Motors had surpassed it in EV sales, meaning the Blue Oval was no longer the second-largest EV brand in the United States. This facility will be opening alongside its flagship sibling.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

The consortium will focus on vehicle electrification.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2017

General Motors LLC. University of Kentucky. Research a scalable synthesis to enable very thin coatings on solid state electrolyte membranes to enable high performance Li-Sulfur Battery. University of Maryland: College Park. Using 3D printed, low tortuosity frameworks, develop solid state Li-ion batteries. Description.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2009

Team members include the University of Houston (principal investigator), BASF, University of Kentucky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Ford Motor Company. Cummins Engine Company, the Diesel Emissions Reduction Consortium, General Motors Corporation, and Woodward.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman Bill Ford has asked union members to come together and end the UAW strike before it hampers the business’ ability to invest in future products and facilities. Last week 8,700 union members walked out at the largest and most profitable Ford plant in the world , the Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

” LGES has joint ventures and partnerships with top automakers in the United States, including Tesla, Ford, and General Motors. It also plans to delay the launch of its second plan in Kentucky, a joint venture with Ford. The Kentucky plant was expected to be operational by 2026.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Ascend Elements will plan, design, and construct a cathode active materials (CAM) plant at a greenfield site in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and install all manufacturing equipment. Microvast and General Motors will combine complimentary intellectual properties to create a specialized separator.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2009

In another invited paper at ECS 215, Mark Verbrugge, Materials and Processes Laboratory, General Motors R&D Center, presented an update of work done in collaboration with Professor Yang-Tse Cheng at the University of Kentucky on the role of mechanical deformation on the life of electrode materials for traction batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

General Motors. Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities. Tesla Motors, Inc. Duke Energy Kentucky. Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA). Eversource Energy. Florida Power and Light Company. Georgia Power. Hawaiian Electric. Hawai`i Electric Light. Maui Electric. Kansas City Power & Light.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Ascend Elements will plan, design, and construct a cathode active materials (CAM) plant at a greenfield site in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and install all manufacturing equipment. Microvast and General Motors will combine complimentary intellectual properties to create a specialized separator.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

The demonstration will take place in Corbin, Kentucky, where the vehicle will be test driven and evaluated by industry representatives. Earlier this month, Green Star Products along with its International Consortium partner Global Green Cars had publicly tested its full electric vehicle version at tracks in Utah and Kentucky.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

General Motors has gone as far as creating a joint venture corporation, Ultium, with LG Chem. At the same time, even Ford partnered with SK On , another South Korean brand, to construct and produce batteries at a new facility in Kentucky.

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Plug in America

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In January, General Motors committed to selling only all-electric vehicles by 2035. The industry has responded to this shift in policy direction with its own commitments. billion—the largest single investment in its history.

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