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LGES & Honda battery plant in Ohio starts construction on $3.5 billion facility

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LG Energy Solution (LGES) and Honda’s joint electric vehicle (EV) battery plant started construction on the facility, installing the first steel beam on the site in Jeffersonville, Ohio. The cells will go to Honda’s automobile manufacturing plans producing electric vehicles for the North American market.

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Series production of next-generation Acura NSX hybrid supercar begins in April at new Performance Manufacturing Center

Green Car Congress

Complementary production of the Acura NSX’s bespoke, 75-degree, twin turbocharged V-6 engine takes place at the company’s nearby Anna, Ohio engine plant and is undertaken by a small group of master engine builders. The multi-material space frame is created with 100% robotic Metal Inert Gas (MIG) welding, an automobile industry first.

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History: Electric Cars: The Golden Age

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With the recent growth of the electric automobile industry , it’s no surprise that EVs are a hot topic of conversation. In Cleveland, Ohio, Oliver Frichtle claimed his battery-powered car could make it 100 miles before needing a charge. It All Began in the More than a Century Ago. Story by Martin Banks. EVs started simple.

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The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets

Cars That Think

One of the most vexing social challenges confronting the transition to EVs at scale is dealing with the effects that governmental EV transition policies will have on millions of jobs across a wide swath of industries. President Biden says his EV policies will result in “one million new jobs in the American automobile industry.

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Acura provides more technical detail on NSX sports hybrid AWD powertrain, body

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Instead, engineers have applied an innovative new technology called “ablation” casting, an all-new material application and a world-first in the automobile industry. 100% of the aluminum space frame components are joined by Robotic Metal Inert Gas (MIG) welding, the first time to be applied in a mass-produced automobile on this scale.

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Will a US tariff hike on Chinese EVs keep them out?

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In a letter first reported by Reuters , Senators Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan and Sherrod Brown of Ohio warned of “artificially low-priced Chinese EVs flooding the U.S. automobile industry as a whole.” market,” which would “endanger the survival of the U.S.

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Gas War: 25 States Sue EPA Over Updated Emissions Regulations

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.& They’ve been joined by Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming in the suit.& We just aren't buying it," Coleman said.

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