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Westwater Resources is building a facility in Alabama to process one of the largest graphite deposits in the US

Charged EVs

The company is currently building a graphite processing plant in Kellyton, Alabama. Fast forward to today and Westwater is building a graphite plant in Alabama, and people are eager to buy our capacity. How much more are people willing to pay to get US graphite compared to Chinese suppliers?

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Ford to invest $1.8B in R&D in China

Green Car Congress

billion) in research and development in China in recognition that Chinese consumers are increasingly driving global innovation. A survey commissioned by Ford found that 45% of Chinese drivers have used their phones, and 31% have sent text messages, while stuck in traffic. Ford Motor plans to invest RMB 11.4 billion (US$1.8

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. Just this past year Russia sent tanks into oil-rich Georgia, and an oil tanker was hijacked off the coast of Somalia. So far, Asian manufacturers are leaving U.S. rivals in the dust. And they exist. To keep U.S.

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Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

EV Match

Hyundai, which announced this May that it would build its first-ever dedicated EV plant in the state of Georgia and, to capitalize on the North American final assembly requirement in the newly-passed IRA, just revealed it was mulling moving the groundbreaking on the facility from the original target of 2023 to before the end of this year.