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APRIL 3, 2017

A123 Systems LLC, a developer and manufacturer of advanced lithium-ion batteries and systems, plans to spend $40 million to build a new headquarters complex in Novi, Michigan. The 32-acre company-owned site will house all corporate functions, an engineering center, new laboratory space and a manufacturing plant.

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JULY 19, 2023

Bollinger Motors has begun building design validation pilots of its B4 all-electric Class 4 chassis cabs for testing and demonstration. Manufacturing of the pilot vehicles has kicked off in partnership with Roush Industries, Inc. at its facility in Livonia, Michigan. is a US-based company headquartered in Oak Park, Michigan.

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DECEMBER 18, 2022

Redwood Materials will build its next Battery Materials Campus just outside of Charleston, South Carolina. At Camp Hall in Berkeley County, Redwood will recycle, refine and manufacture anode and cathode components on more than 600 acres, creating more than 1,500 jobs and investing $3.5 billion in the local community.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

announced today that its Spring Hill, Tennessee assembly plant will begin the transition to become the company’s third vehicle manufacturing site to produce electric vehicles, joining Factory ZERO in Detroit and Hamtramck, Michigan, and Orion Assembly in Orion Township, Michigan. General Motors Co.

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JUNE 23, 2017

NAVYA, a pioneer in developing and manufacturing autonomous vehicles, will establish its first assembly plant outside of Europe in Southeast Michigan. Based on the strong partnership with the university, NAVYA has decided to manufacture its vehicles in the Ann Arbor area. In 2016, Michigan Gov.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

IBI Group and BCCG were responsible for the architectural design and construction of the building. HATCI) was established in 1986 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. As one of Hyundai Motor Group’s (HMG) six centers focused on research and development (R&D), Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced an initiative to develop a first-of-its-kind corridor for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) designed to improve transportation for communities in Southeast Michigan.

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DECEMBER 16, 2016

On the heels of the signing of the SAVE Act legislation to support autonomous vehicle testing and deployment in Michigan ( earlier post ), General Motors will immediately begin testing autonomous vehicles on public roads. Workers at the Orion Township assembly plant will build test fleet Bolt EVs equipped with fully autonomous technology.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In a recent press release, one of Canada’s largest companies, Magna, announced it is investing more than $500 million to expand its operations in three different locations in Southeast Michigan. Clair where it manufactures battery enclosures and plans to open new facilities to build powertrains in Shelby […].

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Electric Cars Report

JANUARY 25, 2024

FCSM is the first large-scale manufacturing joint venture to build fuel cells. FCSM was established in Brownstown, Michigan, in January 2017 based on a joint investment of $85 […] The post GM-Honda Begin Commercial Production At Hydrogen Fuel Cell System Manufacturing Joint Venture appeared first on Electric Cars Report.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

Gotion plans to build a battery components factory in rural Michigan, but the locals want no part of godless commies in their midst.

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JUNE 14, 2023

Joseph County, creating 1,700 manufacturing jobs. GM and Samsung SDI, which announced their joint venture in April, will build the plant just east of New Carlisle at Larrison Boulevard and Indiana 2 to supply GM’s growing EV production needs. Once complete, the plant will have more than 30 GWh of capacity.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Ford has said it will restart construction on the electric vehicle battery facility it’s building in Marshall, Michigan, after pausing work when the UAW strike kicked off a couple months ago. As stated previously, we have been evaluating BlueOval Battery Park Michigan in Marshall.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Ford may announce as early as next week that it will build a new $3.5 battery factory in Michigan where CATL will manufacture LFP batteries,

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JANUARY 21, 2023

General Motors plans to invest $918 million in four US manufacturing sites, including $854 million to prepare these facilities to produce the company’s sixth-generation Small Block V-8 engine and an additional $64 million in Rochester, New York and Defiance, Ohio for castings and components to support EV production.

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APRIL 17, 2021

billion to build its second battery cell manufacturing plant in the United States. Early conceptual rendering of Ultium Cells LLC battery cell manufacturing facility in Spring Hill, Tennessee. Ultium Cells will build the new plant on land leased from GM. It will allow us to build solid and stable U.S-based

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JANUARY 25, 2022

Today, General Motors made its $7 billion plan to expand electric vehicle and EV parts manufacturing in Michigan official. Additionally, it will build a new battery factory and convert an existing factory into a hub for manufacturing its electric pickup trucks. GM is investing $2.2 Billion Battery Plant in Lansing.

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JANUARY 16, 2023

Hanwha Group and LG Energy Solution (LGES) will invest in building battery production facilities in the United States. The MOU was signed by LGES and three subsidiaries under Hanwha Group—Hanwha Solutions, owner of clean energy manufacturer Qcells, Hanwha Corporation/Momentum and Hanwha Aerospace.

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Electric Cars Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Building on Ford’s commitment to American manufacturing, Ford announced today it is investing $3.5 billion to build the country’s first automaker-backed LFP battery plant, offering customers a second battery technology within Ford’s EV lineup.

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MARCH 21, 2019

billion investment in global electric vehicles, Ford is expanding its BEV manufacturing footprint to its Flat Rock Assembly plant in southeast Michigan. This is good news for the future of southeast Michigan, delivering more good-paying manufacturing jobs. Tied to the company’s $11.1-billion

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

The Wallace Center will be located on the campus of GM’s Global Technical Center in Warren, Michigan. The facility will build on more than a decade of advanced battery development at GM Research and Development. The facility is expected to build its first prototype cells in the fourth quarter of 2022. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 29, 2022

billion) in Queen Creek, Arizona to build a new cylindrical battery plant with a total capacity of 11 GWh. The Arizona plant will be LGES’ second standalone facility in the US after one in Holland, Michigan. LG Energy Solution will invest 1.7 trillion won (US$1.39 LGES earlier announced $1.7 Earlier post.). LGES earlier announced $1.7

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

billion in five of its existing Michigan plants, and will work with the city of Detroit and state of Michigan on building a new assembly plant within city limits. The plant actions detailed in today’s announcement represent the next steps in a US manufacturing realignment that FCA began in 2016. will invest a total of $4.5

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The automaker recently announced a new Innovation Center in Michigan, where it will house design, engineering, and research efforts for its upcoming EV lineup. Neither Scout nor Volkswagen have shared many details on the vehicles, other than a few teasers, but we know the pair will lean on Magna Steyr for development and manufacturing.

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MARCH 28, 2017

billion in three Michigan manufacturing facilities to strengthen its leadership in trucks and SUVs and support the company’s expansion to an auto and mobility company. Ford is investing $850 million in Michigan Assembly Plant to retool the plant to build the all-new Ford Ranger and Ford Bronco.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The legacy automaker announced today that it would be building a new battery cell research and innovation facility, known as the Wallace Battery Cell Innovation Center, in Warren, Michigan. These recalls were caused by “the simultaneous presence of two rare manufacturing defects in the same battery cell.”

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 11, 2024

The Biden Administration is continuing its push for more electric vehicle manufacturing in the United States. Facilities in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Maryland, and Virginia are on the list. Facilities in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Maryland, and Virginia are on the list.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2017

General Motors and Honda are establishing the auto industry’s first manufacturing joint venture—Fuel Cell System Manufacturing, LLC, FCSM)—to mass-produce an advanced hydrogen fuel cell system that will be used in future products from each company. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). and president of Honda North America, Inc.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The announcements from auto manufacturers about what they’ve in the pipeline for this year’s SEMA Show in Las Vegas continue apace, with Toyota promising a quartet of builds – plus a few packages that consumers will be able to actually buy. Shown above is a rendering of the Tacoma X-Runner Concept.

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JULY 11, 2024

billion in grant awards today targeted at helping automakers keep 11 troubled manufacturing plants open and to start building EVs there. The grants are part of the “ Domestic Conversion Grant Program ,” intended to direct government support to help convert plants over to electric vehicle manufacturing.

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JUNE 6, 2023

General Motors plans to invest more than $1 billion in two of its Flint, Michigan, manufacturing sites—Flint Assembly and Flint Metal Center—to prepare those plants for production of the next-generation internal combustion engine (ICE) heavy-duty trucks. billion since 2013. billion since 2013.

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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. Digital Manufacturing And Design Innovation. UTRC; Wolf Robotics.

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

Ford and the University of Michigan opened a new $8-million battery lab, housed at the U-M Energy Institute, which will serve as a battery manufacturing facility designed to support pilot projects. Other investors include the University of Michigan, Michigan Economic Development Corporation and the US Department of Energy.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The Michigan-based automaker is investing a […] It’s the first automaker to state that it will produce both NMC (nickel manganese cobalt) and LFP (lithium iron phosphate) batteries for electric vehicles in the United States.

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Teslarati

JUNE 5, 2022

billion to add over 6,200 union jobs to its manufacturing plants in Michigan, Ohio, and Missouri. Ford is America’s Number 1 employer of hourly autoworkers, and this investment only deepens our commitment to building great new vehicles – from an all-new Mustang to new EVs – right here in the U.S. Ford plans to invest $3.7

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JANUARY 27, 2020

Our electric pickup will be the first of multiple electric truck variants we will build at Detroit-Hamtramck over the next few years. billion in Michigan to bring electric vehicles to market through investments at Orion assembly, GM battery lab in Warren, Brownstown and today’s announced direct investment in Detroit-Hamtramck.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

The JV will establish a battery cell assembly plant on a greenfield manufacturing site in the Lordstown area of Northeast Ohio that will create more than 1,100 new jobs. This announcement, along with the recent sale of GM’s manufacturing complex in Lordstown, Ohio to Lordstown Motors Corp.

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