The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The United Auto Workers (UAW) launched an unexpected strike against Ford Motor Company, targeting its extremely important truck works in Kentucky. Ford’s Kentucky Truck Assembly, located in Louisville, is responsible for Ford Super Duty pickups, the Ford Expedition and the Lincoln Navigator.

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JANUARY 1, 2024

Kentucky State Capitol. Photo by Mobilus in Mobili on Flickr As of January 1st, Kentucky has implemented not one but two new taxes on electric vehicles, both of which are individually higher than what gas vehicles pay on similar units of energy. cents, compared to a current average gas price of $2.78 per gallon in the state).

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APRIL 12, 2023

Ford is taking a diverse strategic approach to transforming its industrial system to expand EV production: building new greenfield sites and also transforming existing manufacturing sites such as Oakville and Cologne, Germany. The current 487-acre Oakville site includes three body shops, one paint building, one assembly building.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Aleris will invest $350 million to upgrade capabilities at its aluminum rolling mill in Lewisport, Kentucky. The investment positions Aleris to meet anticipated significant growth in North American automotive demand as the industry pursues broader aluminum use for the production of lighter, more fuel-efficient vehicles.

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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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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The US National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is collaborating with the University of Kentucky and their subcontractor Virginia Tech to demonstrate a novel process for the extraction of REEs from coal using plasma. The collaborators researched using low-temperature plasma to pretreat coal-based materials resourced from West Kentucky No.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

BrightDrop and Kroger completed an initial pilot program in Lexington and Versailles, Kentucky. Flexibility to easily maneuver inside and outside of a grocer’s store to help reduce costly staging and infrastructure requirements. Weatherproofing to handle variable temperatures and outdoor elements with ease.

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Teslarati

MAY 9, 2023

Rivian has reported its first-quarter earnings, showing the company has slightly beat its earnings expectations, bucking the industry trend. Foremost, it is currently dramatically increasing its manufacturing footprint, with new facilities being constructed in Georgia and Kentucky. Shoot me an email at william@teslarati.com.

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MAY 31, 2023

Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc (TMMK) will produce the all-electric, three-row SUV starting in 2025. This is incredible news that furthers Kentucky as the center of the electric vehicle sector,” said Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear. TMMK is located in Georgetown, Kentucky, and made its first Camry in May 1988.

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JUNE 9, 2023

This new investment in our North American R&D operation, which has been a key pillar of the Michigan automotive industry for more than 50 years, shows Toyota’s directional shift towards electrification for all.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Established in Franklin, Kentucky in the United States, LioChem e-Materials is Toyo Ink SC Holdings’ second production base for conductive CNT dispersions in North America. A series of major investment plans for EVs and automotive battery plants have been announced by major players in the automotive LiB industry.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

The new strategic partnership will see the companies collaborate to develop industrialized anode materials that will be incorporated into SKO’s advanced lithium-ion batteries used in its US gigafactories. In the US, SKO has two battery manufacturing plants in Commerce, Georgia, with the second plant scheduled to be operational in 2023.

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MAY 3, 2021

Illinois Basin (Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and Tennessee): Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois aims to lead a project to evaluate the domestic occurrence of strategic elements in coal, coal-based resources and waste streams from coal use. DOE Funding: $1,204,129. DOE Funding: $1,483,787.

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OCTOBER 21, 2023

The layoffs are due to Ford needing to reduce part production at the plants, which would typically ship components to the automaker’s Kentucky Truck Plant. The UAW’s strikes earlier this month targeted the Kentucky factory, resulting in a walkout of around 9,000 workers.

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APRIL 14, 2009

The National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries (NAATBatt) ( earlier post ) has selected a site in Hardin County, Kentucky to build a more than $600-million automotive lithium-ion battery plant. Kentucky was selected over Texas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. Earlier post.).

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JULY 7, 2022

REEs are essential for American competitiveness in a high-tech economy because they are used in many devices important to the clean-energy industry and national security, including computer components, wind turbines, hybrid/electric vehicles, LCD screens and tunable microwave resonators.

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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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DECEMBER 25, 2021

Another key ULI goal is for students to gain experience in leading a multidisciplinary team made up of partners from other universities and industry, including student populations who are underrepresented or have not applied their skills to aviation problems. Final negotiations could lead to awards of up to $31.5

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Ford has recorded steep losses in its EV division and recently announced that it is postponing a multi-billion-dollar battery production facility in Kentucky. That said, Ford CFO John Lawler admitted that the growth is slower than the industry as a whole and noted that the EV business has been more challenging than the automaker expected.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

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.

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MARCH 28, 2024

I took a Ford F-150 Lightning to Tesla Superchargers: The Good and Bad According to the President of UAW Local 862 in Louisville, Kentucky, Todd Dunn, battery tech is the main holdup in why purchasing has slowed. Demand is much slower than the industry expected when it comes to EVs,” he said. I’d love to hear from you!

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JULY 27, 2018

In 2002, the Aleris facility in Duffel, Belgium opened its first continuous annealing line to provide automotive body sheet to the automotive industry. With a new wide cold mill and a continuous annealing line, Aleris is equipped to produce the widest aluminum sheet available in the industry.

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APRIL 23, 2022

billion) to build a 11 GWh cell plant in Arizona ( earlier post ), while Mercedes-Benz announced a battery partnership project with Envision AESC, with plans for a 30 GWh plant to be located in Kentucky ( earlier post ). LG Energy Solutions said it would invest KRW 1.7 trillion (US$1.4

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JULY 4, 2022

Scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Penn State, Columbia University, Tufts University, the University of Kentucky, and Purdue University, alongside industry partner Western Rare Earths, are participating in this ambitious rare earth elements […].

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JULY 21, 2020

This investment will also spur demonstrations of large-scale hydrogen utilization at ports and data centers and across industrial sectors like steel making. University of Kentucky. Other areas of focus include identifying durable and cost-effective fuel cell systems and components for medium- and heavy-duty trucks. Hexagon R & D LLC.

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JUNE 8, 2017

The "war on coal" has long been a talking point of politicians running for elected office in the state of Kentucky. The state was once home to a booming coal industry that has floundered over the years as cheaper fracked natural gas has supplanted coal for electricity generation.

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JUNE 26, 2023

The corporate has mentioned it’s going to lose $3 billion in 2023 on its nascent EV industry, however Farley pledged that battery powered fashions would generate an 8 p.c Area of Power for the development of 3 battery vegetation in Kentucky and Tennessee. go back, earlier than pastime and taxes, via the top of 2026.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

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. Toyota has shared criticism about an industry-wide shift to BEVs in the past, even lobbying against them in the U.S. alone by 2026.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Mercedes also says the site was the first major production facility outside of Germany, calling it the “nucleus of the automotive industry in Alabama.” Ford and UAW reached a tentative local agreement at Kentucky plant What are your thoughts?

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MAY 27, 2022

It will spend $5 billion to establish the plant in the United States, with the most likely locations for the new facility being in South Carolina and Kentucky. By 2025, BMW plans to launch a dedicated EV platform that will bring its products to the forefront of the electric vehicle industry, hopefully on par with sector leader Tesla.

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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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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Hitting Stellantis’ Sterling Heights truck plant is highly reminiscent of the recent walkout seen at Ford's Kentucky Truck assembly plant. Fain is likewise hoping to prove he’s not a pawn of the industry after a years-long court case proved a portion of the UAW’s former leadership was involved in a bribery scandal.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

While Toyoda seems to still be skeptical about the electric vehicle industry, Toyota has taken notable steps to ensure that it has some footing in the emerging electric vehicle sector. Steve Gates, a Toyota dealer who operates in Kentucky and Indiana, noted that the automaker’s diversified approach makes sense. billion to $3.8

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The Institute will achieve this through leadership in pre-competitive advanced research and partnerships across defense, aerospace, automotive, energy, and consumer products industries. Collaboration across industry, academia and government provides an opportunity to directly address these challenges in a pre-competitive way.

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JANUARY 9, 2015

While advanced composites are used in selective industries such as aircraft, satellites and cars, these materials remain expensive, require large amounts of energy to manufacture and are difficult to recycle. PolyOne Corporation; PPG Industries, Inc.; PolyOne Corporation; PPG Industries, Inc.; Adherent Technologies, Inc.;

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Motor Design Ltd ( MDL ) announced the official launch of the SEMPEED Consortium (Simulation of Electrical Machines, Power Electronics and Electrical Drives) which is for academic collaborators and industrial members. Stanley Pigman Chair in Power at University of Kentucky (UoK) in Lexington, KY.

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APRIL 11, 2023

“Ford of Canada has been a leader in the country’s auto industry since it was founded 119 years ago, driven by hard-working, dedicated employees,” said Bev Goodman, president, and CEO of Ford Canada. Just south of there, in Kentucky, Ford is assembling another battery production plant thanks to a joint venture with SK On.

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