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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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MAY 31, 2023

made electrical car in Kentucky origination in 2025, the automaker mentioned Wednesday. Retooling the 9 million-square-foot Georgetown meeting plant for the EV is a part of a $461 million funding introduced in 2021. The post Toyota alternatives Kentucky plant for its first U.S.-made Toyota Motor Corp. will form its first U.S.-made

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APRIL 26, 2024

billion drop into its Kentucky plant, where production of a new EV is expected to start next year. Reports point to the Kentucky EV as potentially being called the bZ5X, though Toyota may move away from that annoying naming structure. That investment joins Toyota’s recently confirmed $1.3 has largely fallen flat.

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APRIL 10, 2017

billion investment in Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. In 2015, Toyota announced it was investing $1 billion in a new TNGA plant in Guanajuato, Mexico—the first designed from the ground up with TNGA production engineering technologies. It also allows for a more flexible production environment. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 9, 2023

As part of its evaluation process, the new Michigan battery lab will ensure that Toyota’s batteries meet North American customer requirements by confirming performance, quality and durability of automotive batteries made by Toyota. to evaluate batteries for electric and electrified vehicles in North America.

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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 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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AUGUST 1, 2023

With the ones smaller crossovers, Toyota led on production occasion Subaru contributed its off-road prowess. Retooling Toyota’s 9-million-square-foot Georgetown meeting plant for the 2 EVs is a part of a $461 million funding introduced in 2021. meeting plant in Lafayette, Ind., Toyota owns about 20 % of Subaru, which holds a nil.3

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JANUARY 5, 2022

Ford Motor Company plans to raise production of the F-150 Lightning pickup at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn to 150,000 trucks per year to meet high demand, Beginning Thursday, the first group of reservation holders will be invited to place their orders for the F-150 Lightning. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

This all-new battery production facility in Michigan will add approximately 35 gigawatt hours per year of new battery capacity for Ford in the US initially—capable of powering approximately 400,000 future Ford EVs. Ford will invest $3.5 With this $3.5-billion With this $3.5-billion

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APRIL 11, 2023

Ford has announced yet another investment in EV production, which will be critical if the automaker hopes to achieve its ambitious production targets. Undeterred, Ford announced that it remains on track to deliver on its EV production goals , including an annual run rate of 600,000 EVs this year and a run rate of 2 million by 2026.

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MAY 3, 2023

SK On, a leading electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturer, signed a joint development agreement (JDA) with US graphite company Westwater Resources (WWR) as part of efforts to strengthen its battery raw material supply chain in North America following the enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

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JULY 27, 2022

Volkswagen of America (VWoA) has started of production of its all-electric ID.4 In addition, a rear-wheel-drive version with a 62kWh battery will go into production later in 2022, with a lower MSRP. As part of the preparation to launch the ID.4, As part of the preparation to launch the ID.4, Volkswagen aims to ramp up ID.4

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JUNE 4, 2022

The funds are being made available through the Biofuel Producer Program, which was created as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act). Its biomass-based diesel production suffered a market loss on almost 3.5 Its ethanol production suffered a market loss on 98 million gallons. million gallons.

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APRIL 18, 2024

This is part of a strategy to replace the alphanumeric naming scheme used by the Toyota bZ4X —currently the only EV in Toyota’s U.S. Toyota confirmed a 3-row electric SUV in 2023, due for 2025 production in Kentucky. lineup—for more conventional names, according to the report.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

The Ford F150 Lightning has been awarded Edmunds’ “Top Rated Electric Truck of 2023” award ahead of a massive production upgrade planned for this year. And these awards couldn’t come at a better time as Ford hopes to garner new demand as it massively upgrades EV production this year.

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JANUARY 24, 2022

New data from Bloomberg states that Tesla’s Fremont Factory in Northern California was the most-productive automotive plant in the U.S., Last year, Tesla’s Fremont Factory averaged a weekly production pace of 8,550 vehicles. Most impressively, Tesla has continued to expand its yearly production capacity as a company.

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OCTOBER 21, 2023

In the latest round of layoffs, announced this week, Ford has let go of an additional 364 workers across two states, citing a reduction in parts demand as a result of the strikes. 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.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Four rare earth elements (REEs) recovery projects managed by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) ( earlier post ) have made significant progress in the development of a domestic supply of REEs from coal and coal by-products by successfully producing REE concentrates.

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JULY 26, 2022

Volkswagen of America announced earlier today it has started production of its flagship electric vehicle in the United States, the ID.4, The factory is the sixth EV production site for VW vehicles. 4 will be sourced in the North American region, with most of its parts coming from the U.S. The American-assembled ID.4

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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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Prices represent daily average observed E85 and regular gasoline prices at the same stations in the states of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, and Ohio. Daily average E85 and E10 prices in select Midwestern states.

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In the olden, olden,& olden & days of vehicle production, it wasn’t uncommon for manufacturing and QC managers to be at loggerheads; there was more than one occasion in which meeting build targets took precedence over, y’know, actually getting things right.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

The E-Ray is the quickest production Corvette in history, clocking a 2.5-second The 2024 Corvette E-Ray goes on sale in 2023, with an MSRP of $104,295 for the 1LZ coupe and $111,295 for the 1LZ convertible model, with production to take place at GM’s Bowling Green Assembly facility in Kentucky, from S and globally sourced parts.

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APRIL 25, 2024

Toyota announced it’s preparing its three-row electric SUV as part of a new $1.4 Toyota revealed it would launch a new three-row electric SUV in the US last May as part of ten new EVs set to roll out globally. However, that electric SUV will be built at its Kentucky plant, set for production next year.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2017

These highly concentrated samples are greater than 300 parts per million (ppm). Concentrations of rare earths at 300 ppm are integral to the commercial viability of extracting REEs from coal and coal by-products, making NETL’s finding significant in the effort to develop economical domestic supplies of these elements.

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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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APRIL 25, 2023

Toyota’s CARB ZEP-certified HD8 FCET Powertrain Kit is now ready for commercialization, with production slated to start for customers later this year at the company’s Kentucky manufacturing plant.

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JULY 22, 2022

The company detailed its global vehicle portfolio plans supporting these production goals as part of its Ford+ plan. This creates even more capacity for high-demand products and provides customers many years of operation with minimal range loss. 150,000 F-150 Lightnings for North America.

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JULY 27, 2018

the leading producer of flat-rolled aluminum products and the world’s largest recycler of aluminum, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aleris Corporation, a global supplier of aerospace and automotive rolled aluminum products, for approximately $2.6 Novelis Inc., billion including the assumption of debt.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

Ford CFO John Lawler described the company’s plans in a media briefing on Thursday. “We’re not moving away from our second-generation EV products. Part of the company’s revamped electric vehicle strategy is the postponement of about $12 billion in planned spending on EV manufacturing capacity.

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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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SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear announced that start-up lithium-sulfur battery company NOHMs (Nano Organic Hybrid Materials) Technologies Inc. has selected to locate its research, manufacturing and product development facility for military, cell phone and electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries in Lexington. NOHMs technology portfolio.

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MAY 6, 2023

TO THE EDITOR: The longer one has labored within the car trade, the extra “Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant road-tests a new quality strategy” (autonews.com, Would possibly 1) turns out just like the film Groundhog Date. For lots of car generations, Ford has “reinvented” its solution to detail and production. ROBERT SHARP , Rochester, Mich.

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MARCH 1, 2016

Proterra has 63 buses on the road today in Texas, California, Massachusetts, Nevada, Kentucky, Tennessee, Florida, South Carolina and Washington. Proterra Inc. announced that its US fleet has surpassed two million miles of revenue service. million pounds of CO 2 emissions.

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JANUARY 9, 2015

The project is part of the development phase of the Department’s Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships initiative, which is helping develop and deploy carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies across the country. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

The proposed facility will support industrial-scale production of advanced lithiated anodes for multiple battery cell makers and automobile manufacturers. Nameplate production capacity of the factory would be >5GWh (gigawatt-hour) to meet customer demand. Applied Materials, Inc. Component Manufacturing (Cathode).

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