Electric Vehicles India

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Proterra an American leading innovator in commercial vehicle electrification technology has announced its plans to open a new EV battery system manufacturing plant in South Carolina to manufacture battery systems for commercial electric vehicles. Lightsey III said “It’s clear that South Carolina is focused on the future.

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OCTOBER 31, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $13 million to five companies to lead key nuclear energy research and development projects supporting advanced reactor technologies. Westinghouse Electric Company partnering with ANL and the University of Pittsburg - Development of thermo-acoustic sensors for Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors (SFR).

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JUNE 13, 2017

Proterra will utilize the $55 million to increase production at its manufacturing facilities in South Carolina and Los Angeles, while also bolstering research and development efforts at the company's headquarters in Silicon Valley.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2020

In addition, the company has shared its manufacturing plans with GM suppliers along with the Original Equipment Suppliers Association and the Michigan Manufacturers Association ( MMA ) to help other manufacturers ramp up their own production efforts. —Shilpan Amin, GM vice president of Global Purchasing and Supply Chain.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The VersiCharge XL concept leverages proven power distribution technologies used indoors at locations such as data centers and industrial facilities and elevates them above-ground in a weather-resistant, outdoor enclosure.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Solvay announced the installation completion of its new thermoplastic composites (TPC) manufacturing facility at its Greenville, South Carolina site. The project represents a major milestone in Solvay’s efforts to industrialize its TPC capacity.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

During the pandemic, Volkswagen fell behind in the Chinese auto market as companies like BYD, Nio, and Tesla took over, with the competition nearly doubling the market’s EV and hybrid offerings (via Bloomberg ). Our companies are mainly generating their profits abroad, helping to keep jobs in Germany.

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Teslarati

MAY 27, 2022

It will spend $5 billion to establish the plant in the United States, with the most likely locations for the new facility being in South Carolina and Kentucky. BMW operates an assembly plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and already has a partnership with CATL in Europe. 0-60 MPH acceleration tops out at just 4.4

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Major German car parts maker ZF Friedrichshafen is investing a hefty $500 million into its transmission plant in South Carolina – all to transform it into a “flexible manufacturer of parts” for both ICE and plug-in hybrids, and for both passenger cars and large commercial vehicles by launching production of its PowerLine transmission in the US.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2016

A new CALSTART brief indicates that California’s climate and energy policies are not only helping to protect the environment and improve air quality, but are also helping to accelerate growth of the clean transportation technology industry (CTTI) in the state.

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Baua Electric

MAY 8, 2024

Charging company Go-Station will host an electric drayage truck pull at the Port Fuel Center (PFC), located at the twin container ports Garden City Terminal and Ocean Terminal, near Savannah, Georgia. Garden City Terminal is the fourth busiest container handling facility in the US.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

The company also will establish a dedicated research and development facility to support Navistar’s diesel power system components. Based in Columbia, South Carolina, Pure Power Technologies will operate a research and development center there as well as a manufacturing plant in nearby Blythewood, South Carolina.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The location will also work with Scout’s production facility in South Carolina, which is currently under construction. That, and the fact that the Detroit area remains the spiritual epicenter of the American automotive industry and houses a high concentration of engineers and industry professionals ready to work.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2021

A new study focused on the auto industry finds that tightening emissions standards not only fails to curtail on-road emissions, but actually increases the likelihood of non-compliance by automakers. This phenomenon isn’t limited to the auto industry. The main issue here is that the EU is using a straightforward cutoff standard.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The recently announced $950 million funding also adds to the company’s existing cash reserves of about $770 million, Polestar noted in its press release. The company is also looking to hit a double-digit gross profit margin by the end of 2024. It also addresses a notable portion of Polestar’s projected financing needs.

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AUGUST 11, 2015

Industry 4.0”, earlier post ). In turn, the freed potential in the production systems allows the company to respond even more individually to customers’ wishes and to step up the flexibility of the production chain. Industry 4.0: Until 2013, the company was able to decrease consumption by 31%. Industry 4.0

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MAY 26, 2022

Several organizations, encompassing companies, research labs, and academia, have formed the Hydrogen Opposed Piston Engine Working Group. Several companies are developing hydrogen high pressure injectors, including Bosch and Westport Fuel Systems. Clemson is a leading public research institution in South Carolina.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

billion loan from parent company Volvo Cars and significant shareholder PSD Investment ($800 million each). As previously announced, the Scandinavian brand will use a pre-existing Volvo Cars manufacturing facility in South Carolina to build their upcoming Polestar 3. To do so, Polestar has acquired a massive $1.6

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MARCH 17, 2023

The Polestar 3 is Polestar's first SUV and will be the electric vehicle company's first all-electric model that will be produced in both China and the US. Production is also expected to begin by mid-2024 at Polestar's plant in Ridgeville, South Carolina, the automaker said when it unveiled the Polestar 3 last year.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2013

LLC at its plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where earlier this year the company more than doubled its fleet of material handling equipment which are fueled by hydrogen fueling systems provided by Linde. One of the major contributors to the half million fill milestone is BMW Manufacturing Co.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Japan-based Toray Industries, Inc. has agreed in principle to supply carbon fiber TORAYCA prepreg for the production of the new 777X aircraft by The Boeing Company. TORAYCA Prepreg is an intermediate TORAYCA product supplied in sheets consisting of resin-impregnated carbon fiber.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 24, 2022

For comparison, Toyota’s plant in Georgetown, Kentucky built 8,427 cars per week, BMW’s facility in South Carolina managed 8,343 units per week, and Ford’s Dearborn, Michigan hub managed just 5,564 vehicles weekly. Most impressively, Tesla has continued to expand its yearly production capacity as a company.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2013

NuHub, the State of South Carolina and Holtec International, Inc., Earlier post.).

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JUNE 22, 2018

Volvo Cars revealed the new S60 mid-size premium sports sedan at the company’s new—and first—US manufacturing plant in Charleston, South Carolina. The combined car launch and factory opening reinforce Volvo Cars’ commitment to the US, an important market for the company and its new premium sports sedan.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2018

The announcement comes one week before the company will reveal its new S60 premium sports sedan at the inauguration of its first US manufacturing plant in Charleston, South Carolina. This strategy is firmly grounded in our shared belief in an electric future for the car industry.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

as more companies turn to human-like robots to take on certain physical tasks. While the company didn’t disclose how many robots BMW will be using, the partnership will start with small quantities and expand if performance targets have been met, according to Brett Adcock , chief executive at Figure.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2016

This important step came after ArborGen’s extensive field testing of the trees produced from tissue cultures in Merkle's lab in Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama. The hybrid varieties are co-owned by ArborGen, a forest seedlings company headquartered in South Carolina, and UGARF, the University of Georgia Research Foundation.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 10, 2024

Volkswagen’s CFO Arno Antlitz said Europe’s largest automaker has “all the ingredients” for success as the US auto industry shifts to electric. The company will build vehicles at its $2 billion facility in South Carolina. The company also fell behind Tesla in US market share for the first time last year.

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Baua Electric

MAY 12, 2023

Gary Russo, president of the Staff Russo company, whom Hunter knew when he labored for Penske Car Workforce Inc., He stated he has at all times been interested in the automobile industry, and he and Meghan Hunter have been preserve to shop for a dealership for nearly 24 years. facilitated the transaction, Jed Hunter stated.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 22, 2024

GM was bullish on its Cruise autonomous-vehicle unit at that time, and it was suggested by the companies that original-equipment airless tires might debut on a 2024 GM EV. Neither company has responded to Green Car Reports with takeaways of that test.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2012

The US Energy Department (DOE) and its Savannah River Site (SRS) announced three public-private partnerships to develop deployment plans for small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) technologies at SRS facilities, near Aiken, South Carolina. The DOE has been working to advance SMR systems, which it defines as producing less than 350 MWe.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 2, 2023

The company has said its sales volume has skewed so heavily toward SUVs and crossovers that it doesn’t make good sense to offer anything else. The company’s plant in South Carolina (which builds the S60) is also presently being converted to focus on battery-powered SUVs intended for Volvo and Polestar.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 13, 2023

“China’s been playing a long game as it relates to the electrification,” mentioned Invoice Russo, founder and well-known govt officer of Shanghai-based advisory company Automobility Restricted. This is a geopolitical battle — it has been going on long before it ever landed into the automotive industry. BYD’s be on one?s

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 25, 2024

Cruise reported the government investigations in a blog post in which the company also vowed to reform its culture stemming from a “failure of leadership” around the incident. The company commissioned a 195-page report from law firm Quinn Emanuel. The report said the company did not intend to mislead regulators.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

and Duke Energy last week announced a 10-year commitment to transition their company cars and trucks to plug-in hybrid or all-electric vehicles. 2010, when both companies will begin tracking their commitment. This commitment will provide the transportation industry the evidence that a robust market for PEVs exists.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2013

In 2012, nearly 80% of total investment in the global fuel cell industry was made in US companies. In general, the report finds, trends for the fuel cell industry were encouraging in 2012. FuelCell Energy’s chief executive officer stated that the company was approaching profitability, perhaps as early as 2013.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

INSPIRE, with high-profile partners from the fields of science and industry, offers an excellent platform to accelerate the utilization of fuel cell technology with its innovative materials and components. With this step the capability of serial production will also be demonstrated.

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