Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2015

Volvo Cars has selected South Carolina as the location of its new $500-million factory in the US. Once completed, Volvo will be able to manufacture cars on three continents, underscoring its position as a truly global car maker. It already operates two plants in Europe and two in China.

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Electric Cars Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

ABB E-mobility, a leader in EV charging infrastructure, is expanding its global and US manufacturing footprint with new manufacturing operations in Columbia, South Carolina.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

ZF Group has received several large-scale orders worth several billion euros from North American vehicle manufacturers for its automatic 8-speed PowerLine transmission—including the largest individual commercial-vehicle-related order in company history. In 2023, production will start in Gray Court, South Carolina.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2022

manufacturing facility. We have grown our electrification business globally and here in the North American region. We’ve invested more than $6 billion dollars in electromobility development and in 2021 our global orders for electromobility surpassed $10 billion dollars for the first time. methods to gain more efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2023

Globally, the battery industry needs to invest at least $514 billion across the whole supply chain to meet expected demand in 2030, and $920 billion by 2035, according to a new analysis by Benchmark. Manufacturing the additional 2.7 Global investment in technologies to help the energy transition reached a record $1.3

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2022

BMW will invest more than $200 million to construct a 219,000-square-foot press shop at its South Carolina plant. The Schuler Group , a globally-recognized company that manufactures automated servo press lines for all BMW Group plants, will also manufacture the automated press line for Plant Spartanburg.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2023

In 1994, ZF launched production-synchronized supply of complete front axle systems for the BMW Z3 Roadster at its assembly location in Duncan, South Carolina. Today, ZF delivers individually tuned front and rear axles to automotive manufacturers throughout the world. billion) in 2023.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Global motion technology company Schaeffler plans to expand its US operations with the addition of a new manufacturing facility focused on producing automotive electric mobility solutions. The Dover site is near Schaeffler’s existing transmission manufacturing facility in Wooster.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2023

During a 16 February briefing with media and industry analysts in Tokyo, Bridgestone Global CEO Shuichi Ishibashi said that the company is pursuing a tire design utilizing 90% recycled and renewable materials for passenger cars. The tires contain a multitude of materials derived from recycled and biobased feedstocks.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2017

On 23 June 1992, the BMW Group announced its decision to build its US plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina. From 2018 to 2021 we will invest further 600 million US dollars in manufacturing infrastructure for future generations of the BMW X models. The BMW Group produces BMW X models in Spartanburg for the US and global markets.

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Electric Vehicles India

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Proterra an American leading innovator in commercial vehicle electrification technology has announced its plans to open a new EV battery system manufacturing plant in South Carolina to manufacture battery systems for commercial electric vehicles. s climate leadership on a global scale. Henry McMaster. .

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2022

4 is Volkswagen Group’s most popular all-electric model, with 190,000 units delivered to customers globally since its launch in 2021. The factory in Tennessee is now the sixth global site to produce vehicles for Volkswagen’s electric line-up. Volkswagen of America (VWoA) has started of production of its all-electric ID.4

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

They’ll be deployed in Alabama, Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Missouri, New Mexico, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. Source: Beam Global The post Department of Homeland Security orders $4.8

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

billion in its US operations, including $1 billion to prepare for the production of electric vehicles at the company’s Plant Spartanburg in South Carolina, and $700 million to build a new high-voltage battery assembly facility in nearby Woodruff, SC. The BMW Group will invest $1.7 BMW Group Plant Spartanburg. Earlier post.)The

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Compared to conventionally manufactured aluminum, this approach can save around 70% of CO 2 emissions. The planned supply volumes will be used exclusively in vehicle production at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg in South Carolina, in body components such as the hood, for example.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

Mercedes-Benz will build the next generation eSprinter electric van, which is based on the newly developed Electric Versatility Platform ( earlier post ), at three locations: North Charleston, South Carolina; and Düsseldorf and Ludwigsfelde in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2016

Volvo reported strong sales from all three core global regions. of total global volume. It is also an endorsement of the company’s new product strategy, with global sales boosted in the later stages of 2015 by the new XC90 SUV. Volvo will also implement a global small car strategy with its Compact Modular Architecture (CMA).

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Teslarati

MAY 6, 2022

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co (CATL) said in March 2021 that it would invest $5 billion into potential electric vehicle battery cell manufacturing sites in North America. The reports follow CATL’s plans to spend $5 billion in North America to establish a massive cell plant capable of manufacturing 80 gigawatt-hours annually.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2011

Albemarle Corporation, a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of highly engineered specialty chemicals, has entered into a manufacturing agreement to supply base oils to Novvi SA, a joint venture between Amyris, Inc. and Cosan S.A.

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EV Specifications

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Envision AESC announces a new multi-year partnership with BMW Group to supply the latest battery cells for the global brand's next-generation electric vehicles. Work is currently underway by the company to.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

Last month, Volvo Cars reinforced its electrification strategy, by stating that it aims for fully electric cars to make up 50% of its global sales by 2025. Production of the new S60 will start this fall at Volvo Cars’ brand new manufacturing facility outside Charleston, South Carolina. Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The global economy is in a tumultuous period, especially in Europe, where energy issues continue to run rampant. One concern that Polestar may be looking to address with new funds is its lack of American manufacturing. Polestar announced today it received financing from two major shareholders, totaling $1.6

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2014

BMW plans to invest US$ 1 billion in the company’s South Carolina plant, boosting annual production capacity by 50% up to 450,000 vehicles by the end of 2016. In addition to the X3, X5, X6, and the new X4, we are today announcing another all-new, larger X model to be manufactured exclusively at this plant for our world markets: the X7.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 24, 2022

However you break it down, the Fremont Factory’s manufacturing prowess showed its domination in 2021, as it was the most productive automotive factory in the United States in 2021, outpacing Toyota, BMW, and Ford factories that have long created the most robust figures of car production in previous decades. 85 cars per minute.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

concluded an agreement to acquire certain assets and the membership interests of Continental Diesel Systems US, LLC, to manufacture key fuel injection components for Navistar MaxxForce diesel engines. Housing our advanced manufacturing technology team near the R&D campus will be a key differentiator for Pure Power Technologies.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

Created with the mission to build cleaner, more efficient engines, Achates Power has an experienced staff of engineers and scientists working with leading engine manufacturers to bring the opposed piston engine to market. Clemson is a leading public research institution in South Carolina. Aramco Americas.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 21, 2023

Its plan was to manufacture electric vehicles based on Saab’s 9-3 platform by 2017 and had acquired the necessary assets to accomplish this. When asked about the possibility of the Trollhattan site being used to manufacture automobiles, the company stated that it would continue relying on preexisting factories.

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Teslarati

JULY 26, 2022

We’re just starting to write a new chapter for Volkswagen in America, and it is very much an American story,” Thomas Schäfer, Chairman of the global Volkswagen brand, said. market and globally.”. Volkswagen of America announced earlier today it has started production of its flagship electric vehicle in the United States, the ID.4,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2018

The announcement comes one week before the company will reveal its new S60 premium sports sedan at the inauguration of its first US manufacturing plant in Charleston, South Carolina. The plant is the sole production site for the new S60, which is the first Volvo car made in the US.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2021

Polestar, the premium electric car brand from Sweden, announced that its first all-electric SUV will be manufactured in the United States. The forthcoming Polestar 3 will be manufactured alongside new Volvo vehicles at the Volvo Cars production center in Ridgeville, South Carolina. —Thomas Ingenlath, Polestar’s CEO.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2018

Volvo Cars revealed the new S60 mid-size premium sports sedan at the company’s new—and first—US manufacturing plant in Charleston, South Carolina. In 2017 Volvo Cars was the first global car maker to announce its strategy that from 2019 all new models will be electrified.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2018

Cost reduction via improvements in materials and manufacturing. R&D areas of interest included, but were not limited to: Cell manufacturing and quality control. R&D areas of interest included, but were not limited to: Cell manufacturing and quality control. Stack manufacturing and quality control. FuelCell Energy Inc.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 13, 2023

As BYD involves the fore globally, it is helping to tighten China’s clutch on merchandise which can be an important to the power transition because the fraught dynamics of monetary statecraft ramp up political tensions. 1 globally. It’s larger than automobiles. BYD’s be on one?s And BYD competitor Fresh Amperex Generation Co.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 22, 2024

One of those reasons, he explained, is that globally about 20% of tires are taken out of service prematurely due to sidewall damage or a puncture. And with less material and less overall manufacturing time invested, it’s likely to wear a lower lifetime carbon footprint—an aspect that automakers are especially aware of with EVs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Volvo Cars announced that the next generation of the XC90 large premium SUV will be built in its new manufacturing plant in Charleston, South Carolina from 2021. This takes Volvo Cars’ total investment in its US manufacturing operations to more than US$1.1 A third Chinese plant is currently under construction.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

The announcement was made during the Clinton Global Initiative ’s (CGI) fifth annual meeting in New York City. The joint commitment represents more than 10,000 vehicles and potential revenues of at least $600 million for manufacturers who can produce viable plug-in electric vehicles. FPL Group, Inc. The initiative will begin 1 Jan.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2013

In 2012, nearly 80% of total investment in the global fuel cell industry was made in US companies. The number of fuel cell units manufactured in Asia continued to grow steadily, rising from about 13,500 units in 2011 to roughly 22,000 units in 2012. 2012 Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report.

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