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Toyota launches flexible engine line at Kentucky plant, boosts hybrid vehicle capabilities

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Toyota’s portfolio approach to providing customers with carbon-reducing options reached another milestone with a new flexible engine line at Toyota Kentucky. This advancement reflects a core goal of the Georgetown facility’s transformation to increase flexibility to align with a shifting market.

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GE Appliances deploying fleet of electric trucks from Einride in Kentucky, Georgia, and Tennessee

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GE Appliances (GEA), a Haier company, is deploying a fleet of electric freight vehicles on routes between the company’s inbound warehouses and its manufacturing facilities in Kentucky, Georgia, and Tennessee.

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Toyota Will Build A Three Row Electric SUV In Kentucky

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Toyota says it is making a further investment in its Kentucky factory to manufacture a battery electric three row SUV. The post Toyota Will Build A Three Row Electric SUV In Kentucky appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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LOTTE Chemical, LOTTE Aluminum to build $238.7M cathode foil plant in Kentucky

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LOTTE Chemical announced a joint venture with LOTTE Aluminium to build a manufacturing facility in Elizabethtown, Kentucky to produce 36,000 tons of cathode foil, a type of ultra-thin aluminum foil that is a core material used in EV batteries. Cathode foil is one of the four major components of lithium-ion batteries.

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Toyota to assemble new 3-row electric SUV in Kentucky; additional $2.1B investment in North Carolina battery plant

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Toyota will assemble an all-new, three-row, battery electric SUV at Toyota Kentucky starting in 2025. The company’s first US-assembled BEV will be powered by batteries from Toyota North Carolina. The new battery plant, which is currently under construction, will receive an additional $2.1

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Kentucky is about to get a huge non-lithium battery gigafactory

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EnerVenue is going to open a 1 million-square-foot gigafactory in Kentucky to produce ultra long-life metal-hydrogen stationary batteries. more… The post Kentucky is about to get a huge non-lithium battery gigafactory appeared first on Electrek.

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Ford Breaks Ground On Electric Vehicle Battery Training Center In Kentucky

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Ford stated in September 2021 that it would establish Ford BlueOval SK Battery Park in Kentucky and Ford BlueOval City in Tennessee, two large sites dedicated to producing EVs and EV batteries.

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