Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Polestar, the Swedish electric performance car company, announced that all 500 build slots were reserved online within a week of the production announcement for the Polestar 6 LA Concept edition. This begins with the world debut of the company’s first electric performance SUV—Polestar 3—in October 2022. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2022

Mercedes-Benz is exclusively producing the all-electric EQS SUV at its North American passenger vehicle plant. 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.

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Alabama Mercedes SUV Production 195

Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2023

GMC released new specifications for the 2023 HUMMER EV Pickup and the 2024 GMC HUMMER EV SUV, including the 3X trim for both models of the supertruck. 7,500 7,500 7,500 The 2024 GMC HUMMER EV Edition 1 and 3X SUV debuts with two unique versions for customers: on-road and off-road. horsepower 830 830 830 830 GM-est. torque (lb. -ft.)

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 14, 2023

Multiple large electric SUVs are on the way to the Porsche lineup. The VW Group chose Canada for building batteries for North American EVs. And the Hummer EV’s gigantic battery can be put to use charging other EVs. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Hummer Porsche Canada SUV 134

Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2023

The Volkswagen Group and its battery company PowerCo have selected St. It will equip the Group brand’s BEVs in the region with advanced battery cells, and is part of a larger plan that Volkswagen and PowerCo agreed upon with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government in August last year. More details on gigafactory St.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2022

VinFast’s factory will create a major manufacturing center in Chatham County’s Triangle Innovation Point megasite, covering an area of 800-hectares, with 3 main areas: electric car and bus production and assembly, EV battery production and ancillary industries for suppliers.

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North Carolina Vietnam Building Batteries 170

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2019

Mercedes-Benz Cars will build a battery factory at the site in Jawor, Poland, and thus extend its global battery production network to nine factories. We will produce batteries on our own, what we consider a significant success factor in the era of electric mobility. Global battery production network.

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Poland Mercedes Global Building 249

Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

Volvo Cars formally inaugurated a new battery assembly line at its Belgian manufacturing plant in Ghent, where it will start building its first fully electric car, the XC40 Recharge P8, later this year. Volvo XC40 Recharge powertrain. The XC40 Recharge P8 is the first of a family of fully electric Volvos.

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Volvo Manufacturer Batteries Battery 530

Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2022

Volkswagen of America (VWoA) opened its Battery Engineering Lab (BEL) in Chattanooga, to test and optimize batteries for all electric vehicles in the American marketplace. 4 compact SUV, is poised to roll off the assembly line in 2022. The first American-assembled Volkswagen EV, the ID.4

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Electric Cars Report

JUNE 1, 2023

Advancing its commitment to vehicle electrification and building where it sells, Toyota will assemble an all-new, three-row, battery electric SUV at Toyota Kentucky starting in 2025. assembled BEV will be powered by batteries from Toyota North Carolina. The company’s first U.S.-assembled

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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.

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Alabama Mercedes SUV Building 145

Electrek

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Lucid Group and Panasonic Energy announced they have entered into multi-year agreements that entail the latter supplying lithium-ion batteries to both the Lucid Air and Gravity SUV. The post Panasonic Energy to supply batteries to Lucid Air, Gravity and build in US appeared first on Electrek.

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Supplies Building Lithium Ion Energy 97

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2021

A new report sponsored by ABB Robotics and authored by the automotive intelligence unit of Ultima Media auggests that concerns over EV battery supply to meet the escalation in demand poses serious risk to the growth of market share of electric vehicles, despite plans for 80 new global battery gigafactories.

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Global Batteries Battery North America 448

Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

After calling off beats with GM to “beat out Tesla” with a cheap SUV, it has now emerged with news that it is mulling over a $14 billion EV and battery plant in Canada. If all goes according to plan, Honda will produce in-house batteries at the plant, which would be the company’s second EV plant in North America.

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Canada Honda Building Batteries 52

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2020

billion at its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to produce a variety of all-electric trucks and SUVs. Our electric pickup will be the first of multiple electric truck variants we will build at Detroit-Hamtramck over the next few years. General Motors will invest $2.2 —Mark Reuss, GM president.

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Detroit GM All-Electric San Francisco 365

Teslarati

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

FinDreams Technology, the battery subsidiary of BYD, has filed paperwork to establish a new battery production facility in Central China. According to Reuters , BYD will construct a battery production facility that produces 40 GWh of batteries annually. The post BYD to build new $1.2B The post BYD to build new $1.2B

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BYD China Building Batteries 92

Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2023

Bollinger Motors has begun building design validation pilots of its B4 all-electric Class 4 chassis cabs for testing and demonstration. Bollinger Motors is developing all-electric commercial chassis cabs Classes 4-6 and all-electric SUV consumer vehicles. at its facility in Livonia, Michigan.

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All-Electric Building Motor Motors 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2022

Envision AESC, a leading Japanese electric vehicle battery technology company, will invest $2 billion to build a new gigafactory in the Kentucky Transpark in Bowling Green, Warren County. 1 producer of cars, light trucks and SUVs per capita and the center of Auto Alley in the US.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2018

Mercedes-Benz is in the process of building out hubs for the production of electric vehicles and batteries around the globe. Markus Schäfer, Member of the Divisional Board of Mercedes-Benz Cars, Production and Supply Chain said that Mercedes-Benz will build its electric vehicles in six plants on three continents. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2023

The 2024 GMC HUMMER EV 3X Pickup is configured for on-road driving dynamics, while the available Extreme Off-Road Package builds upon the truck’s off-road capability.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 26, 2024

Toyota announced on Thursday that it plans to build a new three-row battery-electric SUV in Princeton, Indiana, with a corresponding $1.4 billion investment in the automaker’s Kentucky plant, to build a separate three-row battery-electric SUV. billion investment in the plant. million-EV “baseline” in 2026.

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Toyota SUV Highlander Indiana 52

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Production areas at the plant will include a press shop, body construction, paint shop, and final assembly line in addition to an in-house battery assembly. The first buildings will be erected in Changchun when the frost period ends. The first cars to roll off the line will be an electric SUV and an e-limousine.

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Audi China Building Fully Electric 199

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2020

BorgWarner is building an Integrated Drive Module (iDM) for Ford’s new all-electric Mustang Mach-E SUV. The iDM comes complete with a BorgWarner thermal-management system and gearbox integrated with a motor and power electronics from other suppliers, and showcases the company’s system integration expertise.

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Building Ford Motor Motors 321

Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2021

The EQB range will include several models with front-wheel and all-wheel drive, various power ratings—some of which will exceed 200 kW—plus batteries with usable capacities starting from 66.5 The usable capacity of the batteries in Europe is 66.5 The battery sits within a frame made out of extruded sections.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

Honda is finally joining the EV race after announcing a massive $11 billion (CAD$15 billion) investment to build four new EV plants in Canada. The historic investment will be used to build Canada’s first EV supply chain, enabling 240,000 Honda EVs to be made for the US and Canada annually. Production is expected to begin in 2028.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2022

EVgo, which is also working with GM to add more than 3,250 fast chargers in American cities and suburbs by the end of 2025, was chosen as a strategic collaborator due to its expertise in building, operating and maintaining DC fast charging infrastructure.

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GM Building Charging Companies 259

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The facility will build both traditionally powered Cadillac products and EVs. Newly announced planned investments include: $2 billion will be invested in Spring Hill Manufacturing to build fully electric vehicles including the luxury Cadillac LYRIQ. The all-new Cadillac LYRIQ will be the first EV produced at Spring Hill.

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Cadillac GM Building Yukon 248

Baua Electric

MAY 21, 2024

Genesis is set to launch a new luxury mid-size electric SUV, the GV80, that will compete against Tesla’s best-selling Model Y and the Porsche Macan EV. The new EV will roll out shortly after its larger GV90 electric SUV hits the market. Genesis is upping the competition with plans to launch another electric SUV.

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Porsche SUV Land Rover Tesla 52

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The company also said that it plans to build 20 Power Swap Stations (PSS) in Europe this year. By 2025, NIO aims to build 1,000 PSS outside of China, most of which will be in Europe. NIO is committed to a comprehensive battery charging system in the new markets. In 2023, this number is expected to reach 120. NIO ET7 in Berlin.

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Market Denmark Netherlands Batteries 243

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2019

In addition to Chattanooga, Volkswagen is building the first dedicated EV production facility in Zwickau, Germany, starting MEB production by the end of 2019. Volkswagen is building up the production capacity needed to sell more than 1 million electric cars per year by 2025. This vehicle will be a series-production version of the ID.

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Building 2020 SUV America 286

EV Central

APRIL 23, 2024

According to Autocar , instead of a low-slung supercar Benz’s performance division all-new high-performance flagship will take the shape of a large SUV that will rival both the current BMW XM and Lotus Eletre, plus in the inbound Porsche K1 when it goes on sale in Australia in 2026. Mercedes-AMG EQE 53 SUV.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Volkswagen Group Components contributes around 40% of the overall added value of the first fully electric SUV by the Volkswagen brand, the world e-car ID.4. As part of the transformation, the Group’s largest site for the manufacture of gearboxes now also specializes in building electric drives.

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SUV Electric Electrical North America 221

Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

The heart of GM’s strategy is a modular propulsion system and a highly flexible, third-generation global EV platform powered by proprietary Ultium batteries. GM’s all-new modular platform and battery system, Ultium. GM’s joint venture with LG Chem to develop and mass produce battery cells will drive cell costs below $100 per kWh.

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GM Global Batteries Battery 362

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 With the stunning Mustang Mach-E SUV, an all-electric F-150 and the new E-Transit, our first wave of EVs in North America will introduce a whole new generation to EVs. billion (US $1.35

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2018

Mitsubishi Motors and ENGIE are partnered in a project to explore the potential for electric vehicles to act as a means of energy storage for an office building. For this demonstration, the consortium linked Hitachi’s vehicle-to-everything (V2X) charger to ENGIE’s office building in Zaandam, The Netherlands. Hitachi Europe Ltd.,

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Energy Storage Mitsubishi Building Renewable 236

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2021

GAC Group and Huawei: the two firms are partnering to develop a medium- to large-size electric SUV Level 4 autonomous driving capabilities. The SUV will be the first joint product of the two enterprises. This strategic cooperation will allow them to build a new generation of intelligent vehicles and digital platforms.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The first model that will be produced in the factory of SAIC Volkswagen will be an electric Volkswagen brand SUV in 2020. It will produce various new pure electric vehicles of SAIC VOLKSWAGEN, including medium- and large-sized pure electric SUVs, as well as battery systems.

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