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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. Since June 2020, Kentucky has seen more than $8.5 In September 2021, Gov.

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Toyota to build $50M automotive battery lab at Michigan R&D headquarters

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Toyota Motor North America, Inc. In addition to working with current battery production, lab engineers will explore new battery configurations for future products. Toyota) will invest nearly $50 million to construct a new laboratory facility at its North American R&D headquarters in York Township, Mich.

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Ford to invest C$1.8 billion in Oakville complex for EV manufacturing in Canada

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Ford Motor Company is investing C$1.8 The campus, to be renamed Oakville Electric Vehicle Complex, will begin to retool and modernize in the second quarter of 2024 to prepare for production of next-generation EVs. The current 487-acre Oakville site includes three body shops, one paint building, one assembly building.

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Ford and UAW reached a tentative local agreement at Kentucky plant

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The United Automotive Workers (UAW) have come to a tentative local agreement at a Ford factory in Kentucky, after the union threatened to put the site’s almost 9,000 workers on strike last week if a deal wasn’t reached. The post Ford and UAW reached a tentative local agreement at Kentucky plant appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Toyota ups investment in Kentucky plant set to make 3-row electric SUV

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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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Ford boosting production targets for full-size SUVs by about 25%; increasing line speed at Kentucky Truck Plant

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Ford is increasing production of two popular full-size SUVs to meet increasing retail demand for both models. The company is increasing line speed at its Kentucky Truck Plant to build more Lincoln Navigator and Ford Expedition SUVs, boosting production targets approximately 25% since last fall when the SUVs hit the market.

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Toyota alternatives Kentucky plant for its first U.S.-made EV

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Toyota Motor Corp. made electrical car in Kentucky origination in 2025, the automaker mentioned Wednesday. The EV’s batteries will come from a Toyota complicated underneath building in Sovereignty, N.C. The post Toyota alternatives Kentucky plant for its first U.S.-made will form its first U.S.-made