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DECEMBER 13, 2019

In the future, the Mercedes-Benz plant in Untertürkheim will manufacture and assemble parts of electric powertrains (eATS). The power-transmission wheelset and other components such as the electrohydraulic control system will also be manufactured in Untertürkheim. The plant consists of a total of six sub-plants.

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MARCH 19, 2021

announced co-investment with its Tier 1 global injector manufacturing partner to expand their production facility in Yantai, China to supply jointly developed and proprietary fuel injectors to the growing global market for HPDI 2.0 Westport Fuel Systems Inc. High Pressure Direct Injection 2.0). particularly in Europe and China.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Faraday Future (FF), a new electric vehicle and future mobility startup company, announced that it will invest $1 billion in a US manufacturing facility as a phase one investment. FF expects to bring its first vehicle to market in 2017. FF will announce the exact site in the coming weeks.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

Since 2017, Proton Motor Fuel Cell GmbH has been working with Aumann AG as part of the larger EU program “ Fit-4-AMandA ” (Fit for Automatic Manufacturing and Assembly) on hydrogen fuel cell stack production with financing from the agency FCH JU (Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking). —Aumann CEO Sebastian Roll.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Two UK-based companies—Williams Advanced Engineering and Unipart Manufacturing Group—have formed a new joint venture—Hyperbat Limited—to produce batteries for future hybrid and electric vehicles. What will be the UK’s largest independent vehicle battery manufacturer will open in early 2019 in Coventry.

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JULY 12, 2013

Describing its product goals and tracking progress toward its 2020 manufacturing priorities in its 2012 Sustainability Report , General Motors reaffirmed its commitment to further reduce the energy used and the environmental impacts of building and operating an automobile. Manufacturing energy use and emissions. MWh/vehicle in 2010.

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APRIL 10, 2019

Western Australia will host a national consortium to position Australia as a global leader in the manufacture and supply of batteries after a A$135-million (US$96.4-million) Future Battery Industries CRC Chair Tim Shanahan said the consortium had a six-year plan to address industry-identified gaps in the battery industries value chain.

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APRIL 14, 2019

The US Department of Energy (DOE) intends to provide up to $100 million in awards ( DE-FOA-0002116 ) for the Coal FIRST (Flexible, Innovative, Resilient, Small, and Transformative) initiative (announced in November 2018), which aims to develop coal plants of the future that will provide secure, stable, reliable power with near-zero emissions.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

INEOS Automotive has acquired the manufacturing facility at Hambach from Mercedes-Benz and will start to build its Grenadier 4x4 there in late 2021. The acquisition secures the future of the site and safeguards many jobs that might otherwise have been lost.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The warning came as a new report published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) confirmed that the fleet average CO 2 of newly registered cars rose for the first time in 2017, despite vehicles becoming ever more efficient. in 2017 to 119,821 units. of the overall new car market in 2017. of the UK’s 2.5

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

With this collaboration, Hyundai Motor Group doubles down on its recent commitment to invest US$87 billion over the next five years to foster future growth. Canoo unveiled its first electric vehicle for subscription in September 2019, just 19 months after the company’s founding in December 2017. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

A total of 50,401 vehicles have been manufactured in Dresden since March 2017. After Zwickau, we are the second location in Europe to manufacture vehicles based on the new modular e-drive system. In 2017, the Transparent Factory started production in parallel to meet the high demand. The basic version of the ID.3

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JULY 3, 2018

With a 2017 turnover of close to €450 million, it has production plants in Poland in the cities of Bolechowo and ?roda, With Solaris, CAF will broaden its range of products enabling it to meet the current and future needs in urban transportation, particularly in electric mobility and multimodal door-to-door solutions.

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JULY 9, 2023

—POSCO Group CEO Jeong-woo Choi The new lithium factory is anticipated to have an annual production capacity of 25,000 tons of lithium hydroxide—sufficient for manufacturing approximately 600,000 electric vehicles. POSCO is currently working on the 25,000-ton scale of the initial phase of lithium-from-brine plant in Argentina.

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JUNE 26, 2018

Luxury, performance electric vehicle startup Faraday Future (FF) has confirmed the US$2 billion of first round equity funding following Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approval. Yueting (YT) Jia, founder of FF, will also officially be taking the role of FF Global CEO.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

Automakers and their suppliers, like manufacturers in many other industries, have been exploring the potential of digital manufacturing strategies to increase productivity, profitability and decision-making. McKinsey’s 2018 Manufacturing Global Expert Survey comprised 700 companies in seven nations. manufacturing strategies.

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MARCH 13, 2018

To ensure adequate battery capacity, partnerships with battery manufacturers for Europe and China have already been agreed. A separate Committee chaired by CEO Müller is advancing digitalization in the Group, a key issue for the future. The contracts already awarded have a total volume of around €20 billion (US$24.7 billion (US$27.6

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DECEMBER 14, 2017

the developer of a plug-in electric pickup truck ( earlier post ), has applied for a $250-million loan from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing ( ATVM ) Loan Program. Workhorse Group Inc., The program has issued loans for projects run by Tesla, Ford and Nissan.

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MAY 7, 2018

The two companies are entering into discussions about manufacturing the technology at one of Groupe PSA’s plants and are exploring the possibility of extending the partnership. In 2017, Punch Powertrain opened 3 new locations. In 2017, the total production of CVTs by Punch Powertrain topped 2 million—715,000 of them in 2017.

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JULY 3, 2018

With a 2017 turnover of close to €450 million, it has production plants in Poland in the cities of Bolechowo and ?roda, With Solaris, CAF will broaden its range of products enabling it to meet the current and future needs in urban transportation, particularly in electric mobility and multimodal door-to-door solutions.

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

One of the common goals is to develop an electric vehicle, fully optimized for the mobility services that DiDi is offering, and also initiating a path towards a self-driving and on-demand mobility future. In March 2017, DiDi launched DiDi Labs in Mountain View, California. The company has been mainly owned by NME Holdings Ltd.,

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JULY 25, 2016

FMC Corporation will accelerate the expansion of its global lithium hydroxide production capacity as a result of a new multi-year supply agreement with a major manufacturer of electric vehicles. Our manufacturing network is highly flexible, which allows us to increase capacity or accelerate expansion plans as customer needs warrant.

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MAY 23, 2014

General Motors and the University of Michigan will extend their collaborative automotive research efforts through 2017. The new Automotive CRL creates an organizational umbrella structure and initially will focus on research into engine systems and advanced manufacturing.

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JUNE 26, 2017

Continuous expansion of the plant with extensive additions and the decision to build the successful BMW X models in Spartanburg have made the plant the largest manufacturing facility in the BMW Group production network within the space of 25 years. The new BMW X3 will be launched in fall 2017. More than 1.5

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JANUARY 12, 2021

Russelectric, a manufacturer of distributed energy and microgrid control systems for mission-critical commercial facilities that was acquired by Siemens in 2018, has added electrical vehicle charging capabilities at its Hingham, Massachusetts, facility. —Jason Martin, Head of Russelectric.

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AUGUST 17, 2016

Romeo Power , a Santa Monica, California -based startup will design and manufacture electric vehicle battery packs that the company says will outperform any battery systems on the EV market today. Romeo Power’s EV and consumer lines will launch in early 2017; the company also plans an industrial line.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2022

This funding will accelerate the path to commercialization through developing a next-generation electrolyte, automating manual processes to assemble more cells, and perform pre-FEED studies ahead of investing in the next scale of manufacturing facilities. The company expects to be launching a Series A in Q2 2023 to fund a pre-pilot line.

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MAY 26, 2020

In 2017, Germany launched a consortium of leading industrial companies to investigate high-volume production of automotive fuel cell stacks. Specifically, this means having a stack product and a manufacturing process that can be converted to industrial scale over a manageable time period of 18 to 24 months following project completion.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

will display a future concept of the recently released new model of its Mitsubishi Mobile Mapping System, the MMS-G22, at CES 2017. This company consists of Japanese leading survey and mapping companies as well as all major Japanese automobile manufacturers. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 11, 2021

LiNa Energy is commercializing a safe, ~$50kWh (at mass manufacturing), cobalt-free battery platform that is suited to grid storage and the electrification of transportation. ion Ventures is leading the deployment of the battery in a real-world environment with a view to deploying it into the grid storage market in the future.

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APRIL 3, 2017

A123 Systems LLC, a developer and manufacturer of advanced lithium-ion batteries and systems, plans to spend $40 million to build a new headquarters complex in Novi, Michigan. The 32-acre company-owned site will house all corporate functions, an engineering center, new laboratory space and a manufacturing plant.

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JULY 28, 2021

Preparing for the electric car surge that will undoubtedly occur in the next several years, Rivian is slotting the namesake of its future cars already as deliveries of its first two cars will take place before the end of the year. Rivian’s manufacturing plant moves closer to full-scale production, documents show.

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DECEMBER 12, 2020

To propel this transformation, Hyundai Motor Group has invested substantially in development of future technologies, including in fields such as autonomous driving technology, connectivity, eco-friendly vehicles, smart factories, advanced materials, artificial intelligence (AI), and robots. Earlier post.). Boston Dynamics’ Spot and Atlas.

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MAY 12, 2017

The LCFS gives us the incentives we need to invest in early-commercial vehicle and fuel technologies today in order to bring down the costs for all Californians in the future. Signatories to the letter include clean fuel producers, vehicle manufacturers, and vehicle fleet operators. —Letter of support. gCO 2 e/MJ for diesel.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

Cross-country rallying will be the spearhead of the factory motorsport commitment in the future. We want to continue demonstrating the brand’s slogan ‘Vorsprung durch Technik’ in international top-level motorsport in the future and develop innovative technologies for our road cars.

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JULY 26, 2018

In the fall of 2017 the first preparatory measures were initiated to transform the current divisions Cars and Vans, as well as Trucks and Buses, into legally independent entities. Following approval by the Board of Management and Supervisory Board the corporation can now move into the implementation phase of what it calls “PROJECT FUTURE”.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

General changes in consumer behavior and mobility patterns are directly affecting logistics providers and vehicle manufacturers. And, not least, crowded roads in inner-city zones are presenting new challenges for the transport industry and, as a result, for the manufacturers of vans. We aren’t simply looking for new solutions.

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