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Tesla battery supplier Panasonic pondering additional 4680 investment in Kansas: report

Teslarati

Tesla battery supplier Panasonic is reportedly considering an additional investment in Kansas. This potential expansion, reportedly known internally as Phase 3, would reportedly involve the buildout of new battery production lines. Panasonic’s potential expansion of its Kansas operations comes at a rather interesting time.

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Tesla battery partner Panasonic looking to build new factory in Oklahoma or Kansas: report

Teslarati

Tesla battery partner Panasonic has decided to acquire a factory site in the United States for “high capacity lithium-ion batteries,” according to the Nippon H?s? Panasonic is reportedly looking at factory sites in either Oklahoma or Kansas. The facility would produce the 4680 lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.

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Panasonic cools on idea for third US plant for Tesla batteries

Baua Electric

The 2024 Model 3 / Source: Tesla Panasonic, makers of batteries for Tesla in the US, is delaying its plan to build a third battery plant in North America, according to Reuters. Panasonic, which has a plant in Nevada, is currently building a new factory of 2170-type cells for EVs in De Soto, Kansas, its second in North America.

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Stuff We Use: What’s the Best Battery Booster Pack?

The Truth About Cars

.& & Busted hoopties often have dead batteries, making the modern booster pack something of a must-have around these parts. Besides, that other car probably has a dead battery, too. & & Of course, one needn’t lug around a heavy battery pack these days, not with the myriad of compact 12V jump starter units on the market.

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Ohio’s largest solar farm will also be the US’s largest agrivoltaics project

Baua Electric

It will also be paired with a 300 MW battery energy storage facility and create enough electricity to power 170,000 households. Kansas City-based Savion, a Shell Group subsidiary, is Oak Run’s developer. Bill Gates owns some of that land. The 800-megawatt (MW) solar farm will have two 3.5-mile-long mile-long transmission lines.

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Waffle House is getting NEVI DC fast chargers in Tennessee

Baua Electric

Read more: Kansas announces its first NEVI EV charging station locations If you live in an area that has frequent natural disaster events, and are interested in making your home more resilient to power outages, consider going solar and adding a battery storage system. Get started here. –ad*

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Ford develops and begins manufacturing new powered respirator; expanding other COVID-19 efforts

Green Car Congress

In just three weeks under Project Apollo, we’ve unleashed our world-class manufacturing, purchasing and design talent to get scrappy and start making personal protection equipment and help increase the availability and production of ventilators. —Jim Baumbick, vice president, Ford Enterprise Product Line Management.