Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Redwood Materials will build its next Battery Materials Campus just outside of Charleston, South Carolina. Currently, anode and cathode components are not produced in North America, and battery cell manufacturers have to source them via a 50,000+ mile global supply chain. billion in the local community.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2021

General Motors and MP Materials ( earlier post ) have formed a strategic collaboration to develop a fully integrated US supply chain for rare earth magnets. This strategic collaboration seeks to accelerate the restoration of the US rare earth supply chain at commercial scale with high resiliency and environmental sustainability.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Our environmental track record and continual efforts to help our customers build more sustainable communities played a major role in our decision to use renewable diesel in our fleet. These wastes come from meat processing facilities, hotels, restaurants, sports stadiums and many other venues with industrial kitchens.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2023

announced that its subsidiary SoCal Biomethane will supply renewable natural gas (RNG) as facilitated by renewable fuels marketer Anew Climate to FuelCell Energy’s Tri-gen system to produce carbon-negative hydrogen and electricity for Toyota Motor North America, Inc.’s Anaergia Inc. Anaergia Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2023

Graphex Technologies LLC, the US subsidiary of Graphex Group Limited, and Northern Graphite Corporation announced that Graphex will participate in Northern’s previously announced selection process for a site suitable for the construction of a large-scale graphite processing facility in Baie-Comeau, approximately 420 km north-east of Québec City.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2021

GM and Vacuumschmelze (VAC) of Germany announced plans for VAC to build a plant in the US that will manufacture permanent magnets for the electric motors used in the GMC HUMMER EV, Cadillac LYRIQ, Chevrolet Silverado EV and more than a dozen other models using GM’s Ultium Platform. Earlier post.). Magnets are at the heart of an EV motor.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2022

BASF signed an agreement to secure land for its future cathode active materials (CAM) and recycling site in Bécancour, Québec, Canada, as part of its commitment to support North American producers in their transition to e-mobility. A regional supply chain is critical to ensure reliable and resilient battery materials supply.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2021

The integration provides an expanded global presence with 16 facilities in North America, Asia and Europe to serve the global customer base with a robust manufacturing footprint producing over 100 million components and assemblies annually. —Stephen Smith, Chairman, President and CEO, Amsted Industries.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2022

When the 154,000-square-foot facility is fully operational in August 2022, it will be North America’s largest battery recycling facility with capacity to process 30,000 metric tons of discarded lithium-ion batteries and scrap per year—returning battery-grade lithium, cobalt and nickel back into the battery supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The agreement provides Koura with access to Kanto Denka Kogyo’s world-class technology and industry expertise in commercial LiPF 6 production. Currently, there is no large-scale production of LiPF 6 in North America. Customers will now have access to known LiPF 6 performance in North America.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 9, 2024

Now Aqua has signed a strategic supply agreement with battery materials supplier 6K Energy to establish a more sustainable supply chain for battery critical minerals.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2021

disclosed that FREYR is in negotiations with a major multinational industrial conglomerate (the JV Partner) potentially to develop battery production facilities in North America. 24M) at a battery manufacturing facility in North America. 24M) at a battery manufacturing facility in North America.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2021

the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, will build its third commercial lithium-ion battery recycling facility, to be located in Gilbert, Arizona, within the Phoenix metropolitan area. Li-Cycle achieves an industry-leading recovery rate of up to 95% resource mass recovery. Li-Cycle Corp.,

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Li-ion Arizona Lithium Ion Building 186

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2022

Ford Motor Company and Rio Tinto have signed a non-binding global memorandum of understanding (MOU) jointly to develop more sustainable and secure supply chains for battery and low-carbon materials to be used in Ford vehicles. It has potential to produce battery-grade lithium carbonate with one of the lowest carbon footprints in the industry.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2018

Dürr is building a paint shop in Mexico for the BMW Group that meets the requirements for connected Industry 4.0 San Luis Potosí will build the BMW brand’s best-selling model series, the BMW 3 Series Sedan. The use of renewable energy sources will ensure that the plant is supplied with 100% CO 2 -free electricity.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Japan-based ITOCHU Corporation, its wholly owned US industrial machinery sales company, TEXMAC Inc., TEXMAC and InSpec entered into an alliance agreement on 31 October, and the companies will support both Japanese and North American manufacturers in constructing new plants in the future.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2023

Giampaolo Group subsidiary Triple M Metal will be responsible for the supply of recyclable feed to the joint venture with Matalco’s leadership team continuing to manage its operations. The Matalco joint venture continues Rio Tinto’s investment in building its supply of low-carbon aluminum in North America.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

GM is aggressively scaling battery cell and EV production in North America to reach our target of more than 1 million units of annual capacity by 2025, and we plan to eliminate tailpipe emissions from all our new light-duty vehicles by 2035—so we are building a supply chain and recycling strategy that can grow with us.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This acquisition supports Shell’s ambitions to build an integrated RNG value chain at global scale and to grow its low-carbon offerings profitably to customers across multiple sectors. Shell will generate additional value in customer access and global scale in trading and supply chain positions. mln MMBtu/yr (3,000 boe/d).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In 2024, in North America and Japan, Honda will launch a FCEV model equipped with this next-generation fuel cell system jointly developed with GM. This model will be based on the CR-V introduced last year in North America and equipped with the next-generation fuel cell system. Space technology.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2013

Shell and its affiliates will build two additional small-scale natural gas liquefaction units to provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel for marine and heavy-duty on-road customers in North America. LNG-powered Offshore Supply Vessels. In the Gulf Coast Corridor, Shell plans to install a small-scale liquefaction unit (0.25

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The hydrogen will power a stationary fuel cell to provide clean, reliable power for the Texas Advanced Computing Center and supply a hydrogen station with zero-emission fuel to fill a fleet of Toyota Mirai fuel cell electric vehicles. It is first time that both sources of renewable hydrogen will be used in the same project.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The Nueces County community has voiced environmental concerns about Tesla’s lithium refining facility, particularly concerning its water supply. Tesla Giga Berlin also sparked water supply concerns from nearby communities in Grunheide. . Water Supply Concerns. Nueces vs. Giga Berlin Water Supply Concerns.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2023

Managed by Argonne National Laboratory for DOE and co-sponsored by Stellantis, this government and industry partnership will build the next generation of engineers, technicians and workers to address the demand for a domestic electric-vehicle/battery workforce.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

billion will go to 11 projects in the materials separation and processing segment of the supply chain. Anovion , Scaling the Domestic, US Owned and Operated Anode Supply Chain for Synthetic Graphite, $117,000,000. This US-owned and operated manufacturing plant in northern Alabama will be the first of its size in North America.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2022

one of the largest supply chain solutions providers in North America, announced a long-term, strategic alliance with Waymo Via that will advance efforts to integrate commercial autonomous driving technology in transportation and logistics, with ultimate plans to complete fully autonomous transport in Texas in the next few years.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2023

These include lightweight composites and forms of chemical, resonant, and biological sensing solutions for transportation, aerospace, industrial, energy, and defense customers. Additionally, Lyten is securing domestic supply for its completely NMC-free battery materials, including low emissions natural gas, sulfur, and lithium.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The conditional commitment follows DOE technical, market, financial and legal due diligence and marks another significant milestone endorsing Li-Cycle’s development of the first commercial hydrometallurgical resource recovery facility in North America, located near Rochester, New York.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2022

Ford expects a compound annual growth rate for EVs to exceed 90% through 2026, more than double forecasted global industry growth. Ford plans to reach a 600,000 global EV run rate by late 2023 with the following EVs: 270,000 Mustang Mach-Es for North America, Europe and China. 150,000 F-150 Lightnings for North America.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2022

The 260,000 square foot plant will be LG Magna e-Powertrain’s first production base in North America and is expected to create around 400 new jobs. The building of a new facility is a true testament to the strength of this collaboration and commitment in delivering innovative solutions to customers to meet their challenges.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2023

Placed by customers in North America, the orders were booked last month. Spare parts will be supplied on demand. In addition to the already planned large-scale production at Rheinmetall’s location in Berlin, the Group will now be building up capacity for high-volume production of valves at existing facilities in North America.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2023

Volvo Trucks North America is working with Linde Canada Inc., a leading industrial gas and engineering company, in an exclusive, one-time pilot, importing five Volvo FH LNG (liquified natural gas) powered trucks to Canada. and up to 500 hp with up to 1,000 km range (621 miles).

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Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

Syrah Resources , an industrial minerals and technology company, has become an integrated natural graphite active anode material (AAM) supplier outside China, processing natural graphite from Syrah’s Balama Graphite Operation in Mozambique.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

The Kansas gigafactory will be the company’s second EV battery facility in the US, following the Panasonic Energy of North America (PENA) facility in Sparks, Nevada. Upon completion of the facility, it will maintain annual total production capacity of approximately 30 GWh to supply EV manufacturers across the United States.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2022

The roadmap builds on Kia’s successful Plan S strategy first announced in 2020. million units in 2022, Kia aims to continue its quantitative growth by building on the company’s product quality. Starting in 2023, Kia plans to launch at least two BEVs per year and build a full line-up of 14 BEVs by 2027.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 18, 2023

Thanks to the “Buy American” requirements of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and similar provisions in the EU’s new Battery Directive, traceability is becoming a critical function in the EV industry. Traceability is a topic we’re beginning to hear a lot about in the EV industry.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 10, 2022

Tesla has agreed to a nickel supply deal with Talon Metals, a Minnesota-based company. It is the first United States supply of nickel for the electric automaker. Talon is committed to meeting the highest standards of responsible production that is fully traceable and that has the lowest embedded CO 2 footprint in the industry.

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