CN EV Post

MARCH 30, 2023

As with Ford's deal structure, Tesla would own and operate the plant while licensing technology from CATL , according to Bloomberg. | TSLA.US (Image credit: CnEVPost) Tesla is reportedly looking to build a new battery factory with CATL in the US, similar to the Chinese battery-maker giant's deal with Ford last month.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Ford has said it will restart construction on the electric vehicle battery facility it’s building in Marshall, Michigan, after pausing work when the UAW strike kicked off a couple months ago. As stated previously, we have been evaluating BlueOval Battery Park Michigan in Marshall.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Ford today announced a significant move to LFP batteries for its electric vehicle line. The Dearborn company is tapping China’s CATL first for Chinese LFP batteries and then technology licensing for the previously rumored factory Ford plans to build in Michigan. more… The post Ford announces $3.5B

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Michigan utility Consumers Energy is committing to powering 1 million electric vehicles by 2030. The goal would support the auto industry’s goal to have electric vehicles be 50% of new sales by 2030. Those include 30 fast-charging locations that can fully power an EV battery in less than an hour.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Ford may announce as early as next week that it will build a new $3.5 battery factory in Michigan where CATL will manufacture LFP batteries,

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 5, 2021

General Motors is going all-in on its electric vehicle investment. The legacy automaker announced today that it would be building a new battery cell research and innovation facility, known as the Wallace Battery Cell Innovation Center, in Warren, Michigan.

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MARCH 29, 2022

billion) in Queen Creek, Arizona to build a new cylindrical battery plant with a total capacity of 11 GWh. The Arizona plant will be LGES’ second standalone facility in the US after one in Holland, Michigan. LG Energy Solution will invest 1.7 trillion won (US$1.39 LGES earlier announced $1.7 Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2020

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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MAY 5, 2022

Natron Energy, a manufacturer of sodium-ion batteries, and Clarios International Inc., a manufacturer of low-voltage advanced battery technologies for mobility, will collaborate to manufacture the first mass-produced sodium-ion batteries. Natron has spent 10 years developing sodium-ion battery chemistry for mass manufacturing.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 25, 2022

Today, General Motors made its $7 billion plan to expand electric vehicle and EV parts manufacturing in Michigan official. Additionally, it will build a new battery factory and convert an existing factory into a hub for manufacturing its electric pickup trucks. Billion Battery Plant in Lansing.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In a recent press release, one of Canada’s largest companies, Magna, announced it is investing more than $500 million to expand its operations in three different locations in Southeast Michigan. Clair where it manufactures battery enclosures and plans to open new facilities to build powertrains in Shelby […].

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2021

Ford announced a new global battery center of excellence—called Ford Ion Park—to accelerate research and development of battery and battery cell technology, including future battery manufacturing. Ford’s new Battery Benchmarking and Test Laboratory in Allen Park, Mich., This 200,000 sq.-ft.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2019

Ford is expanding its production capacity for the company’s next-generation battery electric vehicles at a second North American plant. billion investment in global electric vehicles, Ford is expanding its BEV manufacturing footprint to its Flat Rock Assembly plant in southeast Michigan.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 6, 2023

General Motors and Samsung SDI will announce this week the construction of new US battery factory, probably in Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2019

General Motors and LG Chem are partnering to mass-produce battery cells for future battery-electric vehicles. The JV will establish a battery cell assembly plant on a greenfield manufacturing site in the Lordstown area of Northeast Ohio that will create more than 1,100 new jobs.

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APRIL 3, 2017

A123 Systems LLC, a developer and manufacturer of advanced lithium-ion batteries and systems, plans to spend $40 million to build a new headquarters complex in Novi, Michigan. The new 150,000 square foot campus will replace A123’s leased space in Livonia and Romulus, Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2021

business to expand its battery production capacity. In addition to the Green Field Project, LG Energy Solution and GM are currently discussing plans to build a second joint venture plant in the US, which will even further increase its cell production capacity. LG Energy Solution will invest more than $4.5

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Ford Motor Company announced that its Kansas City Assembly Plant will build the all-new E-Transit van, part of a more than $3.2 billion investment in Ford’s North American manufacturing facilities to produce a series of new electric vehicles for commercial and retail customers. arrives in mid-2022. billion (US $1.35

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Teslarati

MARCH 15, 2024

LG Energy Solution (LGES) is planning to invest in NCMA (nickel-cobalt-manganese, aluminum) and LFP (lithium-iron-phosphate) batteries to strengthen its portfolio. On Thursday, March 14, the South Korean battery supplier reported that it invested over 1 trillion won ($760 million) in research and development (R&D) last year.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

General Motors has nearly tripled the size of its Global Battery Systems Laboratory. To maintain our battery leadership, this additional real estate is filled with new capability that will help us improve speed to market for our next generation of battery systems and help us improve the value equation to our customers around the world.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

This will be followed soon after by the Cruise Origin, a shared, electric, self-driving vehicle unveiled by Cruise in San Francisco last week. Detroit-Hamtramck will be GM’s first fully-dedicated electric vehicle assembly plant. —Mark Reuss, GM president. GM’s joint venture with LG Chem—which is investing $2.3

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APRIL 24, 2019

the largest global manufacturer of medium- and heavy-duty fully automatic transmissions, has purchased Vantage Power and AxleTech’s electric vehicle (EV) systems division. The EV systems division is located at AxleTech’s headquarters in Troy, Michigan. Allison Transmission Holdings Inc.,

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 27, 2023

CATL is the largest battery manufacturer in the world, but it is largely shut out of the US market because of the current antipathy between Washington and Beijing. Ford has crafted a plan to build a battery factory in Michigan that will use CATL technology, but be owned and operated by Ford. That plan has

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2021

General Motors has begun deliveries of its first next-generation electric vehicles, the GMC HUMMER EV Edition 1 Pickup and BrightDrop EV600 light commercial vehicle, both built on the Ultium Platform. The first 2022 GMC HUMMER EV Pickup Edition 1 exits Factory ZERO in Detroit and Hamtramck, Michigan. GMC HUMMER EV.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

billion in five of its existing Michigan plants, and will work with the city of Detroit and state of Michigan on building a new assembly plant within city limits. In addition to the new Jeep models, the plant would continue building the Ram 1500 Classic, which is being extended to meet market demand.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2022

The company’s latest EV First Responder Training program will focus primarily on personnel in fire services, providing instruction and sharing of best practices on how to most effectively support emergency situations involving electric vehicles, such as the Chevrolet Bolt EV and Bolt EUV, GMC HUMMER EV Pickup and Cadillac LYRIQ.

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EV Specifications

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Magna announced that it has secured new business from General Motors (GM) to supply battery enclosures for the all-new 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV. The company will produce the enclosures at its Magna Electric Vehicle Structures facility in St. Magna recently announced.

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AUGUST 13, 2010

Ford, Detroit Edison and Xtreme Power are teaming up to establish one of Michigan’s largest solar power generation systems and electric vehicle charging stations at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich. Ford will work with Detroit Edison to install a 500 kW solar photovoltaic panel system at Michigan Assembly.

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Teslarati

APRIL 15, 2024

General Motors (GM) recently showed its commitment to electric vehicles (EVs) by continuing its plans for a $3.5 billion battery plant in Indiana, near New Carlisle. battery plant for heavy construction. The South Korean company was supposed to help GM build its fourth Ultium battery plant.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 6, 2021

GM building a battery innovation center in southern Michigan.

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Baua Electric

JULY 5, 2023

Building of a $3.7-billion billion electric-vehicle battery plant collectively owned through Stellantis and LG Power Resolution has resumed, the automaker mentioned July 5 NextStar Power, the identify of the three way partnership in Windsor, Ont., The automaker halted some building Would possibly 15. Thomas, Ont.

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Teslarati

MARCH 28, 2024

Ford is cutting its F-150 Lightning production workforce by two-thirds as the company continues to try and ramp manufacturing of electric vehicles and work toward profitability. The Michigan Assembly plant is getting a third shift as Ford continues to lean on gas vehicle sales to bolster its finances.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 17, 2023

Ford is flirting with China’s CATL, the world’s largest manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries. The two companies have arrived at an unconventional business arrangement where Ford will license battery technology from CATL, but the Chinese company will not own or operate the factory in Michigan.

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Electrek

AUGUST 4, 2021

Current US battery production falls woefully short in the face of rapidly growing demand for electric vehicle and storage batteries. 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.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2021

Chevrolet will introduce a Silverado electric pickup truck that will be built at the Factory ZERO assembly plant in Detroit and Hamtramck, Michigan ( earlier post ). The vehicles coming from Factory ZERO will change the world, and how the world views electric vehicles. —General Motors President Mark Reuss.

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Teslarati

MARCH 19, 2024

General Motors’ (GM) battery plant in Michigan, named Factory Zero, is leaving production hell. Factory Zero is dedicated to electric vehicle (EV) production. Batteries and software are a mainstay in new vehicles as the global car market transitions to electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2022

General Motors will invest more than $81 million into the company’s Global Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, to prepare the campus to build the Cadillac CELESTIQ ( earlier post ). The investment will be used to purchase and install related equipment to hand-build the CELESTIQ and campus renovation work has already begun.

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