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Piedmont Lithium increases North Carolina lithium resources by 40%

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Piedmont Lithium Limited released an updated Global Mineral Resource estimate (MRE) for its flagship Piedmont Lithium Project in North Carolina. Increasing the scale of our North Carolina mineral resource to 39.2 The dike ranges up to 16m in ture thickness and has been traced for 750 meters along strike.

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VinFast Sets Kickoff Date For North Carolina Factory

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That’s not what’s happening, however, as the automaker recently announced a groundbreaking date for its new manufacturing facility in North Carolina. The Vietnamese automaker builds its vehicles on its home turf, but the North Carolina plant will give it a North American manufacturing presence starting in 2025.

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Cummins investing more than $1B in US engine manufacturing network

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In addition to recent investments in Fridley, Cummins is investing more than $1 billion across its US engine manufacturing network in Indiana, North Carolina and New York. Building electrolyzers in Fridley is helping to bring the supply chain for zero-emissions vehicles to the United States.

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Report: Toyota To Build Subaru Three-Row EV in Kentucky

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Toyota will build the vehicle in its Kentucky factory, where its own electric three-row will be produced. Toyota’s variant is expected to wear the bZ5X name, and the automaker will start building the Subaru version shortly after its own. The brotherly love is expected to continue with a new three-row SUV in 2025.

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Siemens to expand EV charging manufacturing in US to support rapid market growth

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The plant will serve as a counterpart to Siemens’ existing operations in Wendell, North Carolina, where the company manufactures charging solutions for buses, trucks and heavy-duty electric vehicles. In 2019, Siemens expanded the 272,000-square-foot Wendell facility to manufacture DC fleet EV chargers, adding more than 50 jobs.

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Forth and Mobility Development partner to launch national EV carsharing program; affordable model for underserved communities

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This carsharing model as it will roll out builds upon the success of the Miocar program in California’s San Joaquin Valley (supported by Mobility Development), as well as Forth’s experience of piloting similar programs in rural Oregon—both efforts received proof of concept funding from DOE in 2019.

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Toyota confirms second 3-row electric SUV for US production

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Toyota announced on Thursday that it plans to build a new three-row battery-electric SUV in Princeton, Indiana, with a corresponding $1.4 billion investment in the automaker’s Kentucky plant, to build a separate three-row battery-electric SUV. billion investment in the plant. That would help Toyota reach what it called a 1.5-million-EV

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