Teslarati

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Tesla battery partner Panasonic has stated that it intends to start the buildout of its Kansas, US plant this November. With such an aggressive timeframe for the facility, Panasonic is reportedly looking to start mass production at the plant by March 2025. Kansas officials have shared their excitement for Panasonic’s new battery plant.

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Electrek

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Panasonic announced today that it aims to produce 30 GWh of battery cells during the first phase of its new Kansas factory expected to supply Tesla’s vehicle production. The post Panasonic aims for at least 30 GWh of batteries at new Kansas factory expected to supply Tesla appeared first on Electrek.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Kansas wasn’t just wooing Panasonic with a $1 billion state incentive package, but also an original song inspired by its seven principles. In November, Panasonic, which is a battery cell supplier for Tesla, broke ground on its new lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant in Kansas. You can l isten to the song here.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Ford said it “is now working on ways to increase E-Transit production.” ” more… The post First 10,000 Ford Pro E-Transit deliveries begin as Ford looks for ways to increase production in Kansas City appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2023

Ford is boosting production in the US of its popular EVs—Mustang Mach-E®, F-150 Lightning and E-Transit—along with other customer favorites such as Bronco Sport and Maverick. Mustang Mach-E: Ford began increasing production of the Mustang Mach-E this week. F-150 Lightning production will resume March 13.

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Teslarati

MARCH 3, 2022

As per the NHK , a person familiar with the matter revealed that Panasonic wanted to acquire a factory site to bolster its production system for high-capacity lithium-ion batteries that will significantly extend the range of electric vehicles. Panasonic is reportedly looking at factory sites in either Oklahoma or Kansas.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 22, 2024

At CES earlier this month, Panasonic North America President Allan Swan highlighted the company’s potential for an additional future battery plant, in hopes to substantially boost annual production capacity between now and 2031. location at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada, and the manufacturer is building a second site in Kansas.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2011

Ford Motor Company will build a new vehicle at its Kansas City Assembly Plant in Missouri after Ford Escape production moves to Ford’s Louisville Assembly Plant and retooling of the Kansas City facility is complete. Ford will invest $400 million in the Kansas City plant to install a new body shop, new tooling and other upgrades.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2015

Ford has begun production of the 2015 F-150 ( earlier post ) at Kansas City Assembly Plant, which joins Dearborn Truck Plant in building the first mass-produced light-duty pickup truck with a high-strength, military-grade, aluminum-alloy body. In 2011, Ford announced a $1.1

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Teslarati

JUNE 5, 2023

Tesla battery supplier Panasonic is accelerating plans to increase battery cell production at Gigafactory Nevada. Increasing battery production at Giga Nevada would likely help Tesla increase its vehicle production capacity and benefit from the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) electric vehicle (EV) tax credits.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Japanese company and Tesla supplier Panasonic announced plans on Monday to cut domestic production of electric vehicle (EV) batteries due to some vehicle sales being slower than initially planned. Despite slashing production, Panasonic saw record profits of 288 billion yen ($1.9

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Ford Pro has begun shipping the all-new E-Transit from Kansas City Assembly Plant—the company’s first US plant to assemble both batteries and all-electric vehicles in-house. The E-Transit already has more than 10,000 orders from businesses of all sizes and Ford is working on ways to increase production.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Ford Motor Company confirmed that it will build the full-size Transit van at its Kansas City Assembly Plant when the new product joins its North American lineup in 2013. A portion of the investment also will be used in the future to support next-generation F-150 pickup production at the plant. The company is investing $1.1

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It has over 40 years of experience in the global production of cylindrical battery cans, with a joint production volume of more than 12 billion cans per year. Pansonic aims to expand its production of safe EV batteries through the supply agreement with H&T Recharge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved a $5-million payment to Western Plains Energy, LLC to support the construction of a biogas anaerobic digester in Oakley, KS.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Ford’s Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan today makes America’s best selling vehicle—the Ford F-150—and started Ford’s industry-leading closed-loop aluminum recycling innovation ( earlier post ), which was then expanded to other F-150 manufacturing facilities including Dearborn Stamping, Kansas City Truck and Buffalo Stamping.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The first 2016 Ford F-150 with the ability to run on compressed natural gas has rolled off the assembly line in Kansas City. With production of the 2016 F-150 now under way, Ford Motor Company offers eight factory-available vehicles with a gaseous-fuel prep option—more than any other North American automaker.

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Teslarati

JUNE 1, 2022

Panasonic said on Wednesday that it has shipped samples of Tesla’s 4680 cell to the automaker ahead of mass production. Panasonic detailed its plans for the production timeline during the first day of the company’s annual investor event. Panasonic’s Wakayama plant will initially handle the production of the cell.

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Teslarati

MAY 18, 2023

Panasonic, a critical Tesla battery cell supplier, has announced a massive production expansion within North America to keep up with growing EV demand. As noted by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, battery cell production is the limiting factor determining EV production globally. Shoot me an email at william@teslarati.com.

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Production North America Batteries Battery 81

Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2017

Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC, a 50/50 joint venture between BP and DuPont, acquired Nesika Energy, LLC and its ethanol facility in Scandia, Kansas. In the chemicals industry, it is used both directly and as an important building-block for a wider range of products.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2011

Under the agreement, SandRidge will sell an approximate 25% non-operated working interest, or 250,000 net acres, in the Extension Mississippian play located in Western Kansas and an approximate 16% non-operated working interest, or 113,636 net acres, in its Original Mississippian play. Oklahoma-based oil and gas company SandRidge Energy, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2023

Six states—Louisiana, North Dakota, California, Wyoming, Washington, and Kansas—accounted for all renewable diesel production in the United States in 2021. Louisiana, with its substantial petroleum infrastructure, has been the state with the most renewable diesel production since 2011.

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Teslarati

MARCH 4, 2023

Ford has announced a massive EV production ramp for this year, leveraging its head start compared to its traditional rivals. Now Ford has announced its newest EV production ram, hoping to ensure its lead remains as more competitors enter the market in the coming years.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2022

USDA is making payments to 195 biofuel production facilities to support the maintenance and viability of a significant market for agricultural producers of products such as corn, soybean or biomass that supply biofuel production. Its biomass-based diesel production suffered a market loss on almost 3.5 million gallons.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 16, 2012

With vast supplies of common crops like corn, the midwestern states are ideal for ethanol production and sales. And kicking off that trend is one lone gas station in Kansas, the first to sell E15 gasoline. If ever there was a suitable place to sell stronger blends of ethanol in gasoline, it's the midwest.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 21, 2024

But Panasonic Holdings CEO Yuki Kusumi said in an interview that a decision would be made only “when the timing is right” “I keep telling people we need to think about thoroughly raising productivity before setting up a third location,” he said on Friday at the company’s Tokyo office. The IRA and other U.S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2022

Ford Pro is now shipping the first production units of its all-electric E-Transit van to customers across Europe from the Ford Otosan factory in Kocaeli, Turkey, a milestone that closely follows the start of deliveries to US customers from Kansas City Assembly Plant in February. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2014

Ethanol producer East Kansas Agri-Energy LLC (EKAE) intends to integrate renewable diesel production at its ethanol plant in Garnett, Kansas. This is about maximizing revenue, leveraging activities that we already do every day, and enhancing the value of products we already produce now.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 5, 2024

The new agreement will extend H&T’s supply to Panasonic Energy’s Kansas facility, which is scheduled to begin operations by March 2025. All key processes on the company’s production line concepts in North America are fully automated, in order to ensure stable and efficient mass production and consistent quality.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 15, 2022

Tesla Gigafactory Nevada, a joint operation between the EV maker and longtime battery partner Panasonic, is reportedly expected to boost its production by 10%, or about the equivalent of one production line. Gigafactory Nevada’s eventual production capacity is reportedly expected to be at about 43 GWh per year. .

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Included in the $406-million investment are: A new hydrogen plant and crude unit modifications that will increase crude oil throughput and increase diesel production. Hyrocracker modifications that will increase diesel production, reduce production interruptions, and allow the refinery to process additional crudes.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2022

Amazon has begun deploying its custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian for package delivery, with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $19 million for 13 projects in traditionally fossil-fuel-producing communities across the country to support production of rare earth elements and critical minerals essential to the manufacturing of batteries, magnets, and other components important to the clean energy economy.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

US production capacity for renewable diesel could more than double from current levels by the end of 2025, based on several announcements for projects that are either under construction or could start development soon, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). billion gallons per year (gal/y), at the end of 2022.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2021

The funding will help increase the use of biofuels derived from US agricultural products. USDA is making the awards under the Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program.

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InsideEVs

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

The plant will start production with 2170-type cells.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Redwood Materials, a company founded by Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, announced that it will supply high-nickel cathode material for battery cell production in Panasonic’s new Kansas plant. The company believes that this will be the first time cathode material will be produced in North America at “Gigafactory scale”.

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