Alabama just announced its first 13 federally funded EV charging stations
Electrek
JULY 3, 2024
Alabama is handing out $11.2 million in federal grants to install 13 NEVI-compliant EV charging stations – here’s where they’re going.
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Mercedes workers in Alabama vote against UAW membership
Teslarati
MAY 19, 2024
Mercedes workers in Alabama have voted against joining the United Automotive Workers (UAW) last week, after the union was successfully voted in at a Volkswagen plant last month. ” Upon the NLRB’s certification of the results, Mercedes workers in Alabama will need to wait another year to file for a new election.
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Li-Cycle opens its fourth Li-ion battery Spoke recycling facility in Alabama
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Li-Cycle has started commercial operations in its Alabama Spoke located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The Alabama Spoke utilizes Li-Cycle’s patented and environmentally friendly technology to recycle and to process directly full EV battery packs without any dismantling through a submerged shredding process that produces no wastewater.
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Workers at Mercedes-Benz's Alabama Plant Shut Down UAW Efforts - For Now
The Truth About Cars
MAY 20, 2024
Last week, workers at Mercedes-Benz’s facility in Alabama voted against unionizing , with 56 percent saying they were against it. The UAW had an uphill battle in the Alabama plant, as Mercedes jumped into the fight in the “no” camp. A defeat in this vote doesn’t necessarily mean the UAW is dead in the water. Images: James R.
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Mercedes EV plant in Alabama narrowly declines to join UAW, bucking trend
Electrek
MAY 17, 2024
Hot on the heels of a historic victory where VW workers in Tennessee voted to join the United Auto Workers union , Mercedes workers in Vance, Alabama have narrowly voted against joining UAW themselves. The vote comes a day after another union victory in Alabama, where the New Flyer bus plant, which makes some EV buses, joined UAW.
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Alabama-built Mercedes-Benz EQE electric SUV to start at $77,900
Green Car Congress
MARCH 9, 2023
The EQE SUV is produced in the Mercedes-Benz plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, while the battery factory in nearby Bibb County supplies the batteries for this model as well as for the EQS SUV. Starting from $77,900, the 2023 EQE SUV will arrive in US dealerships in spring.
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Genesis starts Electrified GV70 production in Alabama
Electric Cars Report
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama (HMMA) celebrated the launch of the first-ever Genesis Electrified GV70 SUV. and the first-ever Genesis assembly to take place […] The post Genesis starts Electrified GV70 production in Alabama appeared first on Electric Cars Report.
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Toyota Alabama sole producer of hybrid-electric twin-turbo V6 and twin-turbo V6 for new Tundra
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 19, 2021
Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Alabama (TMMAL) held an event to mark the first of Toyota’s latest engine products for the all-new 2022 Tundra ( earlier post ) to come off the production line. These additional engines push the total capacity for Toyota Alabama engine production to up to 900,000 engines per year. The standard i-FORCE 3.5L
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Start of Production for the new EQS SUV at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 26, 2022
The full-size EQS SUV is integrated in series production at the Mercedes-Benz Tuscaloosa plant in Alabama, which has been the production site for large Mercedes-Benz SUVs since 1997. Since the 1990s, Mercedes-Benz has invested a total of more than seven billion dollars in Alabama.
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Hyundai plans to build Santa Fe Hybrid, fully electric Genesis GV70 in Alabama
Green Car Reports
APRIL 18, 2022
The Hyundai Santa Fe Hybrid and an all-electric version of the Genesis GV70 will be built in Alabama, Hyundai confirmed last week. Both vehicles will be built at the Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama plant near Montgomery, which currently builds gasoline versions of the Santa Fe, as well as the Hyundai Elantra, Santa Cruz, and Tucson.
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Alabama, Mississippi to assess oil sands resources in their states
Green Car Congress
JULY 28, 2013
Alabama and Mississippi are forming a partnership to further study the oil sands resources in the two states, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley and Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant announced on Saturday while speaking to the Southern States Energy Board. Areal extent of the Hartselle Sandstone in Alabama. Click to enlarge.
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Mercedes-Benz confirms two electric SUVs for Alabama production in 2022
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Mercedes-Benz on Monday confirmed plans to build two electric SUVs at its Tuscaloosa, Alabama, factory as part of the revised rollout of electric models under its EQ sub-brand.
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Alabama Built 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQE SUV Priced From $77,900
Electric Cars Report
MARCH 8, 2023
Seamlessly blending a sporty character with generous, variable space and agile, long-range driving dynamics, the EQE SUV also features a luxurious interior with the groundbreaking technologies and thoughtful appointments familiar from the flagship […] The post Alabama Built 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQE SUV Priced From $77,900 appeared first on Electric (..)
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Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV enters serial production at Alabama plant
Electric Cars Report
AUGUST 25, 2022
The full-size EQS SUV is integrated in series production at the Mercedes-Benz […] The post Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV enters serial production at Alabama plant appeared first on Electric Cars Report.
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Alabama believes it can become an EV hub – here’s why
Electrek
AUGUST 5, 2022
Alabama officials are gearing up for one of the biggest transformations in the state’s history. With every automaker in the state planning to release an electric model, Alabama believes it can become the next EV hub. The post Alabama believes it can become an EV hub – here’s why appeared first on Electrek.
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Alabama Will Get A Li-Cycle Battery Recycling Facility
CleanTechnica EVs
SEPTEMBER 12, 2021
Li-Cycle has announced plans to build a new lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Alabama. This will be its fourth commercial lithium-ion battery recycling facility and will be located in Tuscaloosa, AL. Previously, the company had a base plan for three North American facilities, or Spokes.
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Mazda, Toyota select Alabama for $1.6B new US auto manufacturing plant
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 10, 2018
Mazda and Toyota have selected Huntsville, Alabama as the site of their new joint-venture manufacturing plant. The site for the new plant is in Huntsville, located approximately 14 miles from Toyota’s Alabama plant (Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Alabama, Inc.). The joint venture represents a $1.6-billion
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Mercedes to Move EQS SUV Production to Make Room for GLC EV in Alabama
The Truth About Cars
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
The automaker is eying plans to move production of the flagship EQS electric SUV to Germany to make room at its Alabama facility for a higher-volume EV. Mercedes jumped into electrification with both feet but is now learning that buyers aren’t quite as excited about its more expensive models as it is.
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U Alabama study finds LTE C-V2N and DSRC connected vehicle latency approximately equivalent for infrastructure messages
Green Car Congress
JUNE 7, 2019
A side-by-side comparison of connected vehicle technology at 85 traffic signals in the Tuscaloosa, AL area showed that latency in delivering safety messages from roadside units (RSUs) to vehicles via dedicated short range radios (DSRC) and LTE cellular (C-V2N) was “approximately equivalent,” according to a study by the University of Alabama.
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Toyota investing $383M in US engine production
Green Car Congress
APRIL 20, 2022
Toyota will invest $383 million in four of its US manufacturing plants—in Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee—to support the production of four-cylinder engines, including options for hybrid electric vehicles. Toyota Alabama: Huntsville, Ala., $222 Toyota Alabama Twin Turbo V6 line. 222 million. 16 million.
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Mercedes-Benz to set up EV production in US, battery plant; $1B investment in Alabama
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 21, 2017
The company plans to produce EQ-branded SUV models at MBUSI (Mercedes-Benz US International), its Tuscaloosa, Alabama facility. Final details of the plans are still being worked on in partnership with the State of Alabama. Mercedes-Benz will set up electric vehicle production in the United States.
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Mercedes to invest $1 billion to build electric SUVs, batteries in Alabama: report
Green Car Reports
SEPTEMBER 21, 2017
Daimler, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz, is expected to announce that it will invest up to $1 billion to build electric SUVs and batteries in and around its Alabama assembly plant. The plans, first reported reported Thursday in The Wall Street Journal (paywalled), represent a major expansion of electric-car manufacturing in the U.S.
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Mercedes-Benz cuts ribbon on new Alabama battery plant ahead of EQ production in the US, shares interior images of seven-seat EQS SUV
Electrek
MARCH 15, 2022
Mercedes-Benz delivered multiple press releases this morning, sharing details of its new battery manufacturing facility in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, as well as interior images of its upcoming EQS SUV , one of the German automaker’s EVs that will soon begin production on US soil.
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Genesis Electrified GV70 makes North American debut
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 5, 2022
Production of the Electrified GV70 is expected to start this December at the brand’s Montgomery, Alabama manufacturing facility. The Electrified GV70 is the third electric vehicle added to the Genesis lineup; its global premier was at Auto Guangzhou 2021. Earlier post.).
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Report: Genesis GV70 EV headed for Alabama production
Green Car Reports
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
Hyundai’s Genesis luxury brand is planning to make a fully electric version of its new GV70 crossover in the U.S. starting early next year, according to a report from Business Korea, citing plans revealed to the labor union at a home-market plant. If the timing is as reported, the GV70 EV would be the first fully electric model from the.
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Toyota to increase V6 engine production in Alabama
Green Car Congress
MAY 18, 2012
The expansion will allow Toyota Motor Manufacturing Alabama, Inc. Toyota will invest approximately $80 million its Huntsville, Ala. engine facility to increase North American production of V6 engines. The investment will bring total plant investment to more than $700 million. A new 300,000 sq. building will be constructed.
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SK On, Westwater Resources to develop anode materials; boosting raw battery material supply chain in N America
Green Car Congress
MAY 3, 2023
Headquartered in Centennial, Colorado, the company holds mineral rights to explore and potentially mine the Coosa Graphite Deposit that is located across 42,000 acres in Coosa County, Alabama. From the late 1800s through the 1950s, the Alabama Graphite Belt was home to significant graphite production.
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DOE: EV battery manufacturing capacity in N America in 2030 projected to be nearly 20 times greater than in 2021
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 4, 2023
Most of the planned projects in the United States are concentrated along a north-south band from Michigan to Alabama. To optimize supply chain logistics, many battery plants will be co-located with automotive plants.
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UAW Says Union Campaign Underway At Mercedes' Alabama Plant
InsideEVs
JANUARY 11, 2024
Plus, more disappointing news from ChargePoint and Electrify America, and the EV tax credits face scrutiny from Congress.
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Westwater Resources is building a facility in Alabama to process one of the largest graphite deposits in the US
Charged EVs
AUGUST 1, 2023
Westwater holds mineral rights to the Coosa graphite deposit, which is located across 42,000 acres in Alabama. The company is currently building a graphite processing plant in Kellyton, Alabama. Fast forward to today and Westwater is building a graphite plant in Alabama, and people are eager to buy our capacity.
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Mercedes will make electric EQS SUV in Alabama, with battery cells from Georgia
Green Car Reports
MARCH 15, 2022
On its way to establishing production for its EQS SUV in the U.S., Mercedes-Benz has confirmed a partnership with battery supplier Envision AESC that will result in a battery facility in Bibb County, Georgia. According to Mercedes-Benz, the new battery facility “underscores the importance of the U.S. within the Mercedes-Benz global.
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Alabama Project Testing Potential for Combining CO2 Storage with Enhanced Methane Recovery
Green Car Congress
JUNE 21, 2010
Field testing the potential for combining geologic carbon dioxide storage with enhanced methane recovery is underway at a site in Alabama by a US Department of Energy (DOE) team of regional partners. The SECARB members began injecting CO 2 at the Alabama test site on 15 June 2010. gigatons to 2.3
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MATHESON executes long-term hydrogen supply contract with Vertex for renewable diesel production
Green Car Congress
JULY 9, 2022
MATHESON , the US affiliate of Nippon Sanso Holdings Corporation ( NSHD ), has signed a long-term supply agreement to meet hydrogen requirements for a 75,000 bpd refinery in Mobile, Alabama owned by Vertex Energy.
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Green Car Congress
MARCH 2, 2010
Carbon dioxide injection—an important part of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology—is underway as part of a pilot study of CO 2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in the Citronelle Field of Mobile County, Alabama. A project team led by the University of Alabama at Birmingham is conducting the injection. Denbury Resources Inc.
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Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Alabama marks start of 4-cylinder engine production
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Alabama, Inc. TMMAL), an engine-production subsidiary of Japan-based Toyota Motor. Corporation (TMC), held a line-off ceremony to mark the beginning of. four-cylinder engine production.
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Alabama Graphite reports high-performance Si-enhanced coated spherical purified graphite (Si-CSPG) for LIBs
Green Car Congress
MAY 29, 2017
Alabama Graphite Corp. AGC) reported positive electrochemical results from downstream lithium-ion battery tests recently performed on its silicon-oxide-enhanced coated spherical purified graphite ("Si-CSPG") produced from the AGC’s ultra-high-purity 99.999 wt% C natural flake graphite. mAh/g and an irreversible capacity of 439.49
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Tesla's Supercharger Retreat Could 'Threaten' EV Transition: Analysts
InsideEVs
MAY 3, 2024
We also discuss Rivian's plans to add hundreds of new jobs and the leadership change at Mercedes' Alabama plant.
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Hyundai Motor Group and SK On to invest $5B in EV battery cell production joint venture in Georgia
Green Car Congress
APRIL 26, 2023
Through the joint venture, both parties plan to establish an EV battery cell plant in Bartow County, Georgia, close to the Group’s US production facilities, including Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama, Kia Georgia and Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America.
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Bolt EV production, grid-connected Leaf batteries, Genesis EV in Alabama, infrastructure bill: Today’s Car News
Green Car Reports
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
The infrastructure bill brings some significant spending on charging infrastructure. GM is building Bolt EV and EUV models again, amid battery replacements. Nissan Leaf battery packs help stabilize the grid in California. Tesla has fixed another braking problem over the air. And Hyundai Motor’s first U.S.-made made EV might be a Genesis.
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Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV Production Started In Alabama
InsideEVs
AUGUST 26, 2022
Soon it will be joined by the Mercedes-Benz EQE SUV.
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Genesis Electrified GV70 Entered Production In Alabama
InsideEVs
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
It's the first Genesis model produced outside of South Korea.
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DOE awards $2.4M to 3 projects for next-generation grid energy storage
Green Car Congress
APRIL 1, 2022
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and partners will perform a pre-front end engineering design (pre-FEED) study on the integration of a 10 MWhe (megawatt-hour electricity) SandTES pilot system into Alabama Power’s Ernest C. Gaston Electric Generating Plant in Wilsonville, Alabama.
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Nuclear reactor components 3D printed by ORNL now installed at TVA Browns Ferry nuclear plant
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 10, 2021
Four first-of-a-kind 3D-printed fuel assembly brackets, produced at the Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have been installed and are now under routine operating conditions at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant Unit 2 in Athens, Alabama.
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