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Ford investing $3.5B to build LFP battery plant in Michigan; partnering with CATL

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billion to build the country’s first automaker-backed LFP battery plant, offering customers a second battery technology within Ford’s EV lineup. Ford is now commited to build both nickel cobalt manganese (NCM) and lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries in the US. Ford will invest $3.5 With this $3.5-billion

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GM investing $2B in Spring Hill plant to build EVs, starting with Cadillac LYRIQ

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announced today that its Spring Hill, Tennessee assembly plant will begin the transition to become the company’s third vehicle manufacturing site to produce electric vehicles, joining Factory ZERO in Detroit and Hamtramck, Michigan, and Orion Assembly in Orion Township, Michigan. General Motors Co.

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Knoxville contracts for 12 New Flyer electric buses with option for 14 more

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This contract includes charging infrastructure encompassing six depot chargers, one portable trailer-mounted charger, and design-build support from New Flyer Infrastructure Solutions, including installation services, software and software services, training, warranties, and commissioning. —Chris Stoddart, New Flyer President.

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Toyota bumping US investments up to nearly $13B over 5 years; focus on advancing electrification

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and a building expansion for additional castings at Bodine Aluminum's Jackson, Tenn. The investment also includes a building expansion. TMMK’s 8,000 team members also build Camry, Camry Hybrid, Avalon, Avalon Hybrid and Lexus ES models with an annual capacity of 550,000 vehicles. The new investment totals $238 million.

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DOE, General Motors and MathWorks launch EcoCAR Mobility Challenge

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EcoCAR is a collegiate automotive competition aimed at developing a highly skilled, domestic workforce by providing hands-on experience designing and building next-generation mobility solutions to meet our nation’s future energy and mobility challenges. University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

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Number of electric buses in Europe has increased from around 200 to 2,200 in 5 years

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For 2019, Poland-based Solaris claims to have concluded the most contracts for the construction of electric buses. The Van Hool factory in Macedonia is building 900 buses this year; the factory is designed for an annual capacity of 1,000 buses. 47% of the buses built by Solaris are powered by an alternative propulsion system.

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Dealerships on target to promote extra unused cars in 2023

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dealerships, referred to as throughput, is estimated to get up to 842 in 2023, which might be an build up of 83 cars over latter life’s 759, City Science stated. California added 13 dealerships and Tennessee added seven, City Science discovered. The common choice of unused cars bought by means of U.S. higher most effective 0.1

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