Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2021

Canada-based Lion Electric Company, a leading manufacturer of all-electric medium- and heavy-duty urban vehicles, has selected Joliet, Ill., for the construction of its US manufacturing facility. Lion anticipates that the first vehicles will roll off the production line in the second half of 2022.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Cirba Solutions (previously Retriev Solutions, LLC) has extended a prior agreement with General Motors (GM) to recycle electric vehicle (EV) lithium-ion battery and cell scrap generated by manufacturing and research at select GM facilities through 2024. The extended contract builds upon the original lithium-ion battery agreement from 2021.

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Blink Charging

MAY 1, 2023

The White House recently implemented rules for various federal funding opportunities requiring companies to be Buy America compliant. Investing in our national infrastructure, as well as companies in the U.S., Blink is proud to be a Buy America-compliant EV charging company and follow the standards set by the federal government.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2021

PGT), an international multi-service flatbed transportation company, to advance electric drive heavy-duty transport. Deliveries of the FCEVs to PGT are anticipated to begin in 2023 when production commences at Nikola’s Coolidge, Arizona manufacturing facility. Nikola Corporation announced a collaboration with PGT Trucking, Inc.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Tesla has effectively sidestepped a New Mexico law that was barring the company from operating a service center for EV owners in the state. The company was able to work around NM’s ban by building a service center on Native American tribal land. The Teslarati team would appreciate hearing from you.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Lucid Motors has become the latest startup automaker proposing to build electric cars in the U.S. The company—formerly known as Atieva—says it plans to break ground next year on a new factory in Casa Grande, Arizona.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

to create a company focused on the development of next generation smart transportation. Nasdaq:VTIQ) is a $230-million publicly traded Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, acquisition or similar business combination within 24 months of its IPO, which was completed 18 May 2018.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Workers at the Orion Township assembly plant will build test fleet Bolt EVs equipped with fully autonomous technology. The plant currently manufactures the Chevrolet Bolt EV and Sonic. The company has more than 40 autonomous vehicles testing in the two cities.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 15, 2021

After a week of media rumor, leaks and speculation, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. TSMC), the world's largest contract chip manufacturer, announced in an online earnings briefing Thursday that it would build a semiconductor plant in Japan. chip manufacturers to set up plants here."

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Teslarati

MAY 18, 2022

The signatures were marked at a ceremonial signing event to officially confirm Lucid and Saudi’s agreement to partner in EV manufacturing, a deal originally agreed upon in February. billion in aggregate over the next 15 years to build the facility in Saudi Arabia, it said. Lucid Group will receive up to $3.4

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Teslarati

MARCH 31, 2021

Lucid Motors detailed the tedious process of building its introductory electric vehicle, the Air Dream Edition, by hand in a recent video the automaker posted to its website. And it takes real craftsmanship,” Art Schlaud, Director of Manufacturing for General Assembly said.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Increasingly, the US is splitting into two camps when it comes to EV adoption: those states who’ve been aggressive about offering incentives and building infrastructure to support EVs and those that have not. Power E-Vision initiative is a company-wide program focused on maximizing J.D. Methodology.

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Teslarati

JULY 28, 2021

The investment is projected to build a plant that would support more than 10,000 jobs. The company wants to start production at the new plant by the second quarter of 2023. The initial proposal, which did not identify the company by name, stated Rivian would only need 2,000 acres of land for its second manufacturing facility.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 15, 2023

To accomplish this target, Lucid would need a workforce in Saudi that could build its cars according to the company’s standards. In a comment to Reuters , Sultan noted that the nearly 800 Lucid Air sedans that have been built in the Saudi plant were actually already fully assembled in the company’s Arizona plant.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 26, 2023

LG Energy Solution (LGES) noted on Friday that it is currently engaged in “active discussions” with Tesla and other electric vehicle companies to provide batteries from its planned factory in Arizona. The company is also aiming to see a 25-30% increase in annual revenue and over 50% increase in capital expenditure this 2023.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2020

a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company, and Nikola’s listing on the NASDAQ Global Select Market. The transaction proceeds are expected to accelerate vehicle production, allow Nikola to break ground on its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Coolidge, Arizona, and continue its hydrogen station infrastructure roll out.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2014

President Obama announced the selection of a consortium of businesses and universities, led by North Carolina State University, to lead a manufacturing innovation institute for next-generation power electronics. Earlier post.). reducing the size of a sub-station to a suit case).

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Teslarati

JANUARY 15, 2024

According to a press release shared by the company on Monday, LG has opened the EV charger plant in Fort Worth, Texas, set to eventually have an annual capacity of over 10,000 units. The factory is already building Level 2 AC chargers with up to 11kW of output and a J1772 connector. in a facility of the 100,000 sq.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Built at the Bridgestone Technical Center in Japan, the tires were constructed using the company’s guayule natural rubber cultivated by Bridgestone at its Biorubber Process Research Center (BPRC) in Mesa, Arizona. Bridgestone built similar passenger tires at its operations in Rome, Italy earlier this summer.

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Electrek

AUGUST 4, 2021

The US has only a small number of domestic, large battery manufacturing factories, including Tesla’s Gigafactory that operates in partnership with Japan’s Panasonic. And just last week, KORE Power announced it will build the first lithium-ion battery factory wholly owned by a US company, in Arizona.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In March 2022 , Lucid announced that it would officially build its first international EV production facility in Saudi Arabia. It aligned with the country’s major economic investment in Lucid, as the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, or PIF, funneled billions into the company to help it develop world-class EVs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2023

billion) to construct a battery manufacturing complex in Queen Creek, Arizona. The complex will consist of two manufacturing facilities—one for cylindrical batteries for electric vehicles (EV) and another for lithium iron phosphate (LFP) pouch-type batteries for energy storage systems (ESS). trillion (US$5.5

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2022

Global lithium ion production capacity could reach over 6,000 GWh (6 TWh) by the end of the decade based on current plans, as companies accelerate gigafactory construction in Europe and the US, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. LG Energy Solutions said it would invest KRW 1.7 trillion (US$1.4

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Teslarati

MAY 31, 2023

LG Energy Solutions (LGES) and Hyundai teamed up to build a battery cell manufacturing plant in the United States. Hyundai Motor Group and LGES signed a memorandum of understanding on May 26 in Seoul, Korea, for a battery cell manufacturing facility in Bryan County, Savannah, Georgia. The companies plan to invest over $4.3

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 21, 2022

Intel has chosen to expand its advanced manufacturing in a U.S. state neither the company nor any other chipmaker has a presence in, Ohio. Intel announced today that it will build two leading edge logic fabs east of Columbus at a cost of $20 billion. According to Intel's manufacturing roadmap under the IDM 2.0

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Teslarati

JUNE 14, 2022

LGES supplies batteries to several prominent electric car manufacturers, including Tesla and Volkswagen. . According to the CEO of Panasonic’s energy business, Kazuo Tadanobu, the company’s pilot line in Japan started large-scale prototype production of the 4680 battery cell in May. In March, it announced plans to build a $1.4

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Teslarati

AUGUST 9, 2021

Fresh off of its merger with Churchill Capital IV, which created the $LCID stock listing on NASDAQ , Lucid Motors has announced the opening of its first Southwestern United States showroom in Scottsdale, Arizona. Arizona is a hot spot for many EV-related entities. The Lucid showroom won’t be the only thing available to customers.

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Teslarati

JUNE 22, 2021

Lucid and Churchill Capital Corp IV filed new details with the SEC , stating that the company has completed the “preproduction builds and has started the production of quality validation builds of the Lucid Air.” Lucid shows the tedious process of building the Air Dream Edition. Provides 2.7

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Teslarati

AUGUST 5, 2022

The company also decided to cut its annual production guidance from 12,000-14,000 units to just 6,000-7,000 vehicles — and that’s if the electric vehicle maker successfully ramps its production of the Lucid Air in the second half of the year. For context, the company delivered 360 Air sedans to customers in Q1 2022. .

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2019

Rio Tinto’s Resolution Copper project in Arizona has achieved a major permitting milestone with the release of an independently prepared Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the project. This area currently contains two operating mine shafts, a mine administration building, and other mining infrastructure.

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Plug in America

APRIL 15, 2022

With more people transitioning to EVs, more jobs are being created to build out infrastructure such as factories and EV charging networks. Legacy automakers such as Ford, GM, and Toyota are beginning to revamp and build factories in states across the nation.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Questions regarding privacy, ownership, cybersecurity and public safety arise, as heavily guarded mapping data is collected and leveraged by companies. User access to this data proves difficult when they are locked in closed networks controlled by automobile manufacturers. Autonomous cars rely on computerized systems to run.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 3, 2021

Following the indictment of former CEO and company founder Trevor Milton, Nikola Motor Corp. The company also gave several updates regarding the production of its Nikola Tre EV and Hydrogen Fuel Cell vehicles. Additionally, the company reported an EBITDA loss of $73.9 Wall Street estimated a loss of 30 cents per share.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2017

The Air will be manufactured in Casa Grande, Arizona. The factory, first announced in November 2016, will come online in 2019 and build 10,000 vehicles in the first 12 months. By 2022 the company expects the factory to employ 2,000 full-time employees and manufacture up to 130,000 vehicles annually. Earlier post.)

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker and a major Apple Inc and Nvidia supplier, said at an earnings conference that AI represented a major opportunity. Wei said at the conference, after the company reported a fourth quarter net profit that beat market expectations.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2018

The minority equity investment, for an undisclosed sum, builds on an existing long-standing technology partnership between Delphi Technologies and Sigma Technologies , the parent company of PolyCharge. The company’s headquarters, engineering, and product development center are located in Tucson, Arizona.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Cooper Tire & Rubber Company has completed tire builds using rubber derived from guayule plants and new guayule related materials. PanAridus replaced Yulex Corporation on the grant team, assuming Yulex’s responsibilities as the primary manufacturer of the guayule material.

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