Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

billion investment in its Georgetown, Kentucky, assembly plant to prepare for production of a 3-row electric SUV. This additional money, which brings the plant’s total investment to nearly $10 billion, “supports the previously announced future BEV assembly at Toyota Kentucky,” according to a company press release.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 29, 2024

Ascend Elements , a battery recycling company, has raised $162 million in equity investments from Just Climate, Clearvision Ventures and IRONGREY, bringing its 12-month funding total to $704 million. The new funding will be used to advance construction of the company’s Apex 1 plant in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2023

AESC held a groundbreaking ceremony on its new battery plant in Florence County, South Carolina. The new 30 GWh battery plant builds on AESC’s existing battery manufacturing network that includes a plant in operation in Tennessee and another plant under construction in Kentucky. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2022

Total lithium-ion capacity existing or being built has doubled since the beginning of 2021, following announcements of new plants by Chinese and South Korean battery producers, according to Benchmark’s Gigafactory Assessment. Battery capacity is currently growing at twice the speed of lithium raw material supply. trillion (US$1.4

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2009

The Commonwealth of Kentucky, the University of Kentucky (UK) and University of Louisville (U of L) are partnering with the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory to establish a national Battery Manufacturing R&D Center to help develop and deploy a domestic supply of advanced battery technologies for vehicle applications.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 28, 2024

Ferrari on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding with battery supplier SK On for future battery development. This is in addition to an existing battery-supply arrangement in place since 2019, which has seen SK On supply batteries for Ferrari plug-in hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2023

US-based graphite processor Urbix ( earlier post ) announced a Joint Development Agreement with global EV battery developer and manufacturer SK On (SKO). For SKO, this agreement reinforces a local supply chain for battery anode materials in the US, helping customers take advantage of the provisions of the “Inflation Reduction Act” (IRA).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2022

Ford announced a series of initiatives for sourcing battery capacity and raw materials that light a clear path to reach its targeted annual run rate of 600,000 electric vehicles by late 2023 and more than 2 million by the end of 2026. Ford is building on agreements tied to its 600,000 run rate milestone and is taking them even further.

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Teslarati

MAY 6, 2022

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co (CATL) said in March 2021 that it would invest $5 billion into potential electric vehicle battery cell manufacturing sites in North America. BMW and Ford have assembly plants in North Carolina and Kentucky, which makes a potential partnership with CATL both likely and ideal, considering the location alone.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ford Motor Company will build two new massive, environmentally and technologically advanced campuses in Tennessee and Kentucky that will produce the next generation of electric F-Series trucks and the batteries to power future electric Ford and Lincoln vehicles. billion BlueOvalSK Battery Park—creating 5,000 jobs.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Ford is reportedly considering building a new battery manufacturing plant to produce lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries. Over the past year, Ford has continually struggled with supply chain issues. The post Ford reportedly considering producing LFP batteries with CATL appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Detroit’s Big 3 and Toyota all announced investments in battery plants these last few weeks. Toyota’s US Battery Plant. billion in battery development and production within the United States. billion EV battery plant to produce in-house cells under a new company. On Monday, Toyota announced plans to invest $3.4

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2009

The National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries (NAATBatt) ( earlier post ) has selected a site in Hardin County, Kentucky to build a more than $600-million automotive lithium-ion battery plant. Kentucky was selected over Texas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Ford was one of the first full-line US automakers to pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its vehicles, operations and supply chain in alignment with goals of the accord. This pledge is backed by science-based interim targets the automaker intends to achieve by 2035.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 1, 2023

Q&A with Jon Jacobs of Westwater Resources Everyone in the EV industry is talking about the IRA and the BIL, two sets of federal regulations that include strong incentives for automakers to establish domestic supply chains for EV raw materials and components. Today, over 75% of all the battery graphite comes from China.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The HERE-SBD Automotive EV Index highlights, since 2020, US state-level and European country-level leaders and laggards based on various critical metrics, including the number of charging points (Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment), vehicle registrations, geography, and road network length.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

billion to 21 projects to expand domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and the electrical grid and for materials and components currently imported from other countries. billion will go to 9 projects in the component manufacturing segment of the supply chain. Earlier post.) Of that, $1.16

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2022

billion to 21 projects to expand domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and the electrical grid and for materials and components currently imported from other countries. billion will go to 9 projects in the component manufacturing segment of the supply chain. Earlier post.) Of that, $1.16

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Teslarati

JULY 26, 2022

When we promised to bring Volkswagen EVs to the millions, it always included American workers building those EVs right there in Chattanooga. 4 , including “steel in Alabama and Ohio, to interior parts in Indiana and South Carolina, and electronics components in Kentucky and North Carolina. market and globally.”.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

billion to 20 companies for 21 projects—the first set of projects funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) to expand domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and the electrical grid and for materials and components currently imported from other countries. ( DE-FOA-0002678 , earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. U of Kentucky). Better Batteries - Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

During past eight years the number of plug-in electric vehicle models has increased from one to more than 20, battery costs have decreased 70%, and the number of electric vehicle charging stations has increased from less than 500 in 2008 to more than 16,000 today—a 40-fold increase. Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Florida Senator Marco Rubio is calling for an investigation into Ford’s recent announcement of a new battery production facility built in conjunction with Chinese battery supplier CATL. However, now the automaker is receiving backlash for partnering with Chinese battery maker CATL at the facility. Specifically, Sen.

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Teslarati

JUNE 25, 2023

billion loan to Ford and SK On’s BlueOval battery plant joint venture. In the past five years, workers who build GM products in Lordstown, Ohio, have had their lives turned upside down as they were forced to retire, quit or uproot their families and move all over the United States when GM closed their plants despite massive profits.

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Push EVs

JULY 21, 2022

Ford will use module-less LFP (LiFePO4) batteries from CATL to cut costs by 10-15 percent starting next year. Our Model e team has moved with speed, focus and creativity to secure the battery capacity and raw materials we need to deliver breakthrough EVs for millions of customers.”. DEARBORN, Mich.,

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Baua Electric

APRIL 9, 2024

EV batteries are shredded to create black mass, which is then further recycled to extract lithium and other battery materials for use in new EVs. The EU has mandated that over the next decade a growing proportion of materials in EV batteries must be recycled. “That’s what we’re doing together.”

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

By some estimates, upwards to 80,000 auto workers and a similar number in the auto supply chain have already been laid off globally to support the EV transition. By some estimates , upwards to 80,000 auto workers and a similar number in the auto supply chain have already been laid off globally to support the EV transition.

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