Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

MW solar park at Chattanooga is owned and operated by Silicon Ranch; VW has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement. Volkswagen inaugurated its largest solar facility in the world—also the largest solar facility operated by an automaker in the US—at its plant in Chattanooga, TN, which produces the Passat model for North America.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The Van Hool plant in Morristown (Tennessee, USA) is expected to start building buses from 2022. In 2018, Yutong built 60,868 buses, including 24,748 new energy buses. BYD profiles itself as a total supplier that also provides, if necessary, the supply and installation of a solar park to generate green energy.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 10, 2024

Rivian on Thursday provided the most significant future-product preview since the debut of its R1 series trucks at the 2018 LA auto show. That effectively cuts the price of the Leaf, which is made in Tennessee with an American-assembled battery pack, to $25,485 for many households.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Cadillac was able to pull the US launch of the Lyriq ahead by nine months—early production units were built in March at its assembly plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee, and the first customer deliveries took place in June. Limiting factor: battery supply. In 2018, Cadillac sold 228,000 vehicles in China against 155,000 in the US.

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