Green Car Reports

MAY 10, 2021

Lion Electric announced Friday that it will open a factory in Joliet, Illinois, to build electric school buses and heavy-duty commercial trucks. Vehicle production is scheduled to start in the second half of 2022.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 1, 2022

Students at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) recently gained experience with solar technology and EVs by building a charging station for one of the school’s vehicles which is used to deliver food and reduce food waste. The little car even has a name: Gemma, but we’ll get to why that is in a minute. “To To […].

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 10, 2019

The Illinois legislature has backed away from a proposed $1,000 registration fee targeted at electric cars that was met with scorn and opposition from automakers and electric-car advocates.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2023

Vertiport Chicago, North America’s largest vertical aircraft take off and landing facility, is located in the Illinois Medical District near the Chicago Loop. Once the trunk routes have been established, the next step will be to build out “branch” routes to connect to surrounding communities.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 14, 2019

Rivian will likely be entrusted to build an upcoming Ford electric SUV, due early within the next few years, at the startup’s former Mitsubishi assembly plant in Normal, Illinois. "It

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 10, 2019

The Illinois legislature has backed away from a proposed $1,000 registration fee targeted at electric cars that was met with scorn and opposition from automakers and electric-car advocates.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2021

ADM plans to build North Dakota’s first dedicated soybean crushing plant and refinery to meet fast-growing demand from food, feed, industrial and biofuel customers, including producers of renewable diesel. —North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum.

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Electrek

MARCH 7, 2024

The EV maker will begin building its new R2 electric SUV at its Normal, Illinois facility to accelerate the launch. Meanwhile, Rivian (RIVN) is delaying construction at its new $5 billion EV plant in Georgia, where the R2 was initially expected to be produced. The delay is not expected to be significant.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 12, 2021

One of the candidates left in the running is located in central Illinois near Rivian’s production facility in Normal. Dan Brady stated that the Samsung battery factory is expected to employ up to 3,200 people if it chose to build in Illinois. We’re competing for a major Samsung battery facility,” U.S.

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Cars That Think

MAY 13, 2023

TSMC), which was already building a $12 billion fab in Arizona , upped the investment to $40 billion with a second plant. In addition to building two cutting-edge chip factories on a 4-square-kilometer megasite that could hold six more fabs, the company has pledged $50 million to 80 higher-education institutions in the state.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Illinois-based Li-ion manufacturer AllCell Technologies, LLC received a $460,433 grant as part of the Illinois Energy Plan. The PCM technology spun-out from Illinois Institute of Technology and AllCell developed its products as the first tenant in the state-funded incubator at University Technology Park at IIT. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2021

a supplier of hydrogen fuel cell powered heavy vehicles ( earlier post ), plans to build the largest fuel cell membrane electrode assembly (MEA) production line for commercial vehicles in the United States at its new Hyzon Innovation Center located in Bolingbrook, Illinois, just outside of Chicago. Hyzon Motors Inc.,

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Electric Vehicles India

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Rivian to build new $5 billion electric vehicle factory in Georgia. When the factory will be built it will employ more than 7,500 people which is going to build Rivian’s next generation of electric vehicles. The Rivian’s current factory in Illinois has a capacity for as many as 300,000 vehicles per year.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 16, 2021

“Building our recently announced second domestic manufacturing facility near Atlanta, Georgia (500,000 targeted annual production capacity with eventual co-located cell production),” Rivian listed in its list of achievements. The post Rivian will build its next EV manufacturing plant in Georgia appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Electrek

MAY 7, 2021

Lion Electric will build a new manufacturing plant in Joliet, Illinois. The company has committed to an initial investment of at least $70 million over a three-year period, as part of its agreement with the government of Illinois.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2023

Each of the four centers, led by a National Laboratory or University, support the science behind a bio-based economy and aims to break down the barriers to building a strong domestic bioenergy industry.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2022

The custom vehicles are made at Rivian’s factory in Illinois, and include technology and features such as: A safety-first design focused on superior 360-degree visibility, and vehicle features that protect drivers and pedestrians. Batteries that are light, resilient, and low cost in addition to lasting the lifetime of the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2021

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $26 million to build infrastructure to expand the availability of higher-blend renewable biofuels by 822 million gallons annually in 23 states. USDA is making the awards under the Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2022

Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, IL). The EcoCAR EV Challenge, managed by DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory, builds on a 34-year history of DOE Advanced Vehicle Technology Competitions. Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA). McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2013

UPS plans to invest approximately $50 million to build an additional nine liquefied natural gas (LNG) fueling stations, bringing the total number of stations to 13. The expansion will include on-site fueling stations in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas. Phoenix, Ariz., Phoenix, Ariz.,

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 11, 2024

During last week's State of the Union address, President Joe Biden made a claim that seemed to suggest that his administration, along with the UAW, helped Stellantis resurrect a plant in Belvidere, Illinois. Here's what Biden said in the speech, via the Associated Press : The great comeback story is Belvidere, Illinois.

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Teslarati

JULY 22, 2021

It would follow the company’s first facility located in Normal, Illinois. The post Rivian to build second U.S. Rivian has confirmed that it is currently exploring locations for a second manufacturing facility within the United States. According to a report from Reuters , several U.S. Don’t hesitate to contact us with tips!

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2021

A new study by researchers from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign seeking to identify the reasons that cause the performance of fast-charged lithium-ion batteries to degrade in EVs has found interesting chemical behavior of the anode as the battery is charged and discharged.

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Baua Electric

MAY 26, 2023

” Ray and Raymond Car Workforce sells six car manufacturers throughout 4 dealerships in Illinois. The post How cake and Q-cards support a broker build up worker retention appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News. As Vogt mentioned, “it’s always all about the cake.” have alternative methods for worker respect.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2019

The Center for Cryogenic High-Efficiency Electrical Technologies for Aircraft (CHEETA) project is led by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The award to the University of Illinois was one of three in the second round of ULI funding , which will provide a total of about $15 million over three years.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2009

Linde has executed a new long term contract with PdV Midwest Refining LLC to supply hydrogen to the company’s CITGO Lemont, Illinois, oil refinery. The hydrogen will be produced by a new plant that Linde is building for CITGO’s production of ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) fuel.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Rivian says the program is a 16-week foundational training program, offering on-the-job learning from professionals at the automaker’s plant in Normal, Illinois. Credit: Rivian | LinkedIn Credit: Rivian | LinkedIn Credit: Rivian | LinkedIn “This is a very exciting development,” said David Stevens, Rivian Director of Maintenance.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

As per CEO RJ Scaringe in an interview ahead of the company’s market debut on the Nasdaq, Rivian is planning to build at least one million vehicles annually by the end of 2030. Rivian may only be starting its initial production activities, but the company has already announced some of its ambitious goals for the end of the decade.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Illinois surpassed California as the state with the highest taxes ($0.674/gal), while Connecticut temporarily surpassed Alaska as the state with the lowest gasoline taxes ($0.05/gal), Data source: US Energy Information Administration, federal and state motor fuels taxes table. These states are not shown because the values are so small.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 3, 2021

Rivian is in talks with UK ministers to build a giant factory. In May, Rivian proposed the addition of two buildings to its 510-acre property in Normal, Illinois. The company also purchased 380 acres near its factory in Illinois and asked Normal to annex the farmland and rezone 320 acres of the plot for industrial use.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2019

University College London and University of Illinois at Chicago researchers report a new, scalable method for making a material that can reversibly store magnesium ions at high-voltage. —Professor Jordi Cabana (University of Illinois at Chicago). The study is published RSC journal Nanoscale.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Stellantis agreed to reopen its Belvidere, Illinois facility to build a new pickup model as part of its tentative deal to end the strike. It’s been over a decade since Dodge/Ram last sold a midsize truck in the U.S., but negotiations with the UAW may have changed that.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have developed a lithium-air battery with a solid electrolyte. The battery is rechargeable for 1000 cycles with a low polarization gap and can operate at high rates.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Rivian is holding a job fair on Saturday at its factory in Normal, Illinois. We can get to know them, do everything else here, they will have an R1T or an R1S on site that they can check out and see what they can potentially be building as well. The career fair will be held from 10 a.m. They can bring themselves.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Rivian has built its first-ever customer-ready R1T all-electric pickup truck after months of building pre-production vehicles, dialing in manufacturing accuracy. After months of building pre-production vehicles, this morning our first customer vehicle drove off our production line in Normal! What do you think?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2018

Those investments and related actions involved production shifts at three plants in Illinois, Ohio and Michigan to gain capacity for the Jeep Cherokee, Jeep Wrangler and Ram Light Duty truck, and the introduction of three new Jeep models at plants in Ohio and Michigan. More than 700 new jobs will be added to support production. $1

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Obama also launched a competition for a new manufacturing innovation institute to build US strength in manufacturing advanced composites, the first of four new competitions to be launched this year. Lightweight And Modern Metals Manufacturing. UTRC; Wolf Robotics. Digital Manufacturing And Design Innovation. Boeing; Caron Engineering Inc.;

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