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Volkswagen workers at Tennessee plant file to hold UAW election

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Volkswagen workers at the automaker’s Tennessee factory have filed to hold a union election, as the United Auto Workers (UAW) continues its drive at multiple U.S. The UAW announced last month that a majority of workers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, signed union cards. facilities.

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Einride & GE Appliances to deploy first US fleet of autonomous and electric trucks

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At launch, Einride will implement electric transportation solutions at three of GEA’s locations in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia. Together, the companies will work to create safer and more efficient mobility solutions to drive a more sustainable future for large commercial truck fleets. Range per charge is 130- 180 km.

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

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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 has reached a new agreement with Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., With this $3.5-billion

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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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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. million will be invested at Orion Assembly.

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LG Energy Solution hires Nvidia data expert to improve global battery production

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From 2016 to 2019, Dr. Pyun was a Principal Solutions Architect at Nvidia. It will supply battery cells to GM’s Orion Assembly plant , where the legacy automaker produces the Chevy Bolt and other electric vehicles in the future. The other Ultium Cell manufacturing plants are being constructed in Ohio and Tennessee.

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Unifor goals to unionize Volkswagen’s EV battery plant in Ontario

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The United Auto Employees have two times tried and two times failed to arrange staff on the Volkswagen Chattanooga Meeting Plant in Tennessee. The primary union force failed by way of 3 share issues, and the second one unionization vote failed in 2019 by way of an excellent slimmer margin. Manufacturing on the St.