Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2010

Ford Motor Company has awarded Toshiba a major contract to supply electric drive motors for hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles. Toshiba Corporation will expand manufacturing capacity at its plant in Houston, Texas for production of the high-performance drive motors for HEV, PHEV and EV applications.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The company confirmed this in its Q3 2021 Earnings Call Shareholder Deck earlier today. “Building our recently announced second domestic manufacturing facility near Atlanta, Georgia (500,000 targeted annual production capacity with eventual co-located cell production),” Rivian listed in its list of achievements.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Canada-based FLO announced the installation of the first wave of workplace electric vehicle (EV) charging stations as part of a multi-year agreement with General Motors (GM), whereby FLO provides AC Level 2 and direct current (DC) fast chargers for GM to be installed on their premises in the United States.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 3, 2023

A veteran automobile retail govt has teamed up with a identified Kia dealership supervisor to shop for their first retail outlets: 3 franchised dealerships, plus a used-car bundle, in rural Texas. shaped a partnership in February with Kimberly Eakin, normal supervisor of Dennis Eakin Kia in Killeen, Texas.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Nat G CNG Solutions has delivered the first natural gas half-ton pickup trucks with General Motors’ 5.3-liter The 2015 model vehicles were purchased by local Houston company NewTex Plumbing and San Antonio-based Pioneer Energy Services. liter direct injection engine. In addition to supporting the 5.3-liter direct injection engine.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2011

Texas-based KLD Energy Technologies Inc., Qianjiang) will serve as a contract manufacturer for the company and intends to leverage KLD Energy Technologies’ electric motor systems. Owner of the Italian motorcycle company Benelli, Qianjiang exports products throughout Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The ability to process HREEs alongside LREEs will enable MP Materials to extract and refine all rare earths required to manufacture high-performance permanent magnets. In a separate contract awarded in December 2020, the DoD committed $9.6 Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2022

General Motors and POSCO Chemical are working with the governments of Canada and Québec to build a new $400-million facility in Bécancour, Québec, to produce cathode active material (CAM) for GM’s Ultium batteries, which will power electric vehicles such as the Chevrolet Silverado EV, GMC HUMMER EV and Cadillac LYRIQ. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative (CEMI), which will focus on growing US manufacturing of clean energy products and boosting US competitiveness through major improvements in manufacturing energy productivity. Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recognized eight Toyota manufacturing sites in North America for achieving a 10% reduction in energy intensity through its ENERGY STAR Challenge For Industry program. To gain recognition, the site’s company must be an ENERGY STAR partner. Hot water boiler linkage (Toyota Motor Mfg.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2014

Biosynthetic Technologies , with support from the United Soybean Board (USB), recently received American Petroleum Institute (API) certification on two motor oil formulations (5W-20 and 5W-30) that contain a synthetic ester made from high oleic soybean oil. Petroleum synthetic oils typically score between 6.0

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Teslarati

AUGUST 26, 2021

The company’s purchase of the Fremont Factory allowed it to transition from a niche sports car maker into one that made mid-volume production cars. Press tours were conducted with local media outlets from time to time, but the facility’s battery pack and electric motor production lines have mostly been kept hidden. .

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2011

KLD), developers of high-performance electric motor technology ( earlier post ), was selected by the State of Texas to receive $2.8 million in funding from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF). KLD’s initial product is a complete motor system for electric vehicles. kWh battery pack; and KLD motor controller.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The city of Houston is set to receive the first Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Buy America-compliant mid-size autonomous bus in the US. The company’s electric vehicles have logged more than 2.3-million million zero emission miles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Unifrax, a manufacturer of high-performance specialty materials, introduced its Battery Advisory Board, which will meet regularly to provide strategic guidance as Unifrax grows its battery portfolio and enters the silicon anode market with its new SiFAB Silicon Fiber Anode Battery Technology. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2022

Glencore and General Motors announced a multi-year sourcing agreement in which Glencore will supply GM with cobalt from its Murrin Murrin operation in Australia. The company will then expand into magnet manufacturing around 2025 at its new production facility in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Drawing on our leadership team’s decades of experience, we intend to commercialize and scale-up membrane electrode assembly (MEA) production while working closely with Tier-1 manufacturers and original equipment manufacturers.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2010

Austin, Texas-based KLD Energy Technologies, developers of a high-performance electric motor system ( earlier post ), has raised $6 million from private investors. The two-year-old company said the funding will be used for expansion and product development. Statesman.com. as its chief technology officer. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2020

The US Department of Transportation announced nine companies and eight States that have signed on as the first participants in a new Department initiative to improve the safety and testing transparency of automated driving systems, the Automated Vehicle Transparency and Engagement for Safe Testing ( AV TEST ) Initiative.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2022

The heart of any electric motor consists of a rotor that revolves around a stationary part, called a stator. Stator iron accounts for about two-thirds of the weight of a conventional motor. The layered components of an Infinitum Electric axial-flux motor are shown here, in exploded form. Electric motors consume.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Toyota luxury brand Lexus will lead the Japanese automaker into the use of Tesla’s Gigacasting techniques, after a handful of companies have announced plans this year to invest in transitioning to the technology for future electric vehicle (EV) production. In addition, Lexus plans to offer only battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) by 2035.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2014

Nat G CNG Solutions, a Houston-based company specializing in compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicle upgrades, has been selected as a Ford Motor Company Qualified Vehicle Modifier (QVM). Ford instituted the QVM Program to improve quality assurance for Ford vehicle modifications, including natural gas vehicle upgrades.

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Teslarati

MARCH 24, 2024

market, the company’s recent release of a city EV with a price tag under $10,000 has some worried for when it and other low-cost companies do. at this point, the company has been beginning to deliver its EVs in several markets throughout Europe and Asia. While BYD said just last month that it has no plans to enter the U.S.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Italian casting machine manufacturer IDRA shared photos from the Semi-Solid Conference on LinkedIn on Monday, including one thought to have the 9,000-ton Cybertruck Giga Press in the background. However, Niklas did not disclose what company the casting machine was destined for, despite being asked by another user.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Tesla has grown into one of the world’s largest producers of electric vehicles, but the company is still just getting started. The facility, which is also Tesla’s first international plant, produces Model 3 and Model Y units, and it currently serves as the company’s primary vehicle export hub. Despite delivering over 1.8

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Teslarati

APRIL 20, 2022

million cars in 2022 with the help of its Gigafactories in Shanghai, Berlin, and Texas. During his opening remarks at the Q1 2022 earnings call , Tesla CFO Zachary Kirkhorn noted that the company still believes it will achieve a 50% or more growth rate by the of the year. Tesla aims to produce 1.5 So, let’s see,” Musk stated.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

ActaCell, a Li-ion battery spin-off from the University of Texas at Austin, was selected by the state of Texas, through the Austin Chamber of Commerce and the Central Texas Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization (CenTex RCIC), to be awarded investment by the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF).

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The company teased its leasing offer last week. Rivian’s leasing program offers the adventure of owning a Rivian with more flexibility,” the electric vehicle manufacturer told Teslarati. The leasing program is available in select states, including California, New York, Florida, and Texas.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 26, 2022

It appears that Tesla is hard at work in its efforts to prepare Gigafactory Texas for the production of the Cybertruck. As per observations from the electric vehicle community, for example, it would seem that numerous new production line robots have arrived at the Austin, Texas facility recently. .

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Ford Motor Company, Argo AI and Walmart are working together to launch an autonomous vehicle delivery service in Miami; Austin, Texas; and Washington, DC—Walmart’s first multi-city autonomous delivery collaboration in the US.

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Teslarati

JUNE 23, 2021

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has mentioned that he now lives in a ~$50K house at Starbase, Texas, where his private space company, SpaceX, is manufacturing its Starships. A 20×20 unit such as the one that Elon Musk owns is priced at only $50,000, less than the cost of a Model Y Long Range Dual Motor AWD.

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Teslarati

JUNE 19, 2023

Among its customers are EV charging companies like Electrify America, EVgo, Applegreen Electric, Revel, and TeraWatt Infrastructure. Seung-June Oh, president of SK Signet America, shared his enthusiasm about the company’s adoption of Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS).

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Teslarati

AUGUST 5, 2022

Lucid Motors seems to be learning firsthand just how difficult it is to mass produce all-electric vehicles. In the second quarter, Lucid Motors reported that it had delivered just 679 cars. In the second quarter, Lucid Motors reported that it had delivered just 679 cars. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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EV Central

MARCH 1, 2023

The long-hyped circa-$40,000 Tesla Model 2 didn’t break cover at the company’s investor day held at the Texas Gigafactory this morning. The new platform will also enable a radically different manufacturing process designed to dramatically reduce the cost of production.

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Teslarati

JULY 6, 2022

General Motors and Volkswagen have set their eyes on taking Tesla’s crown, but the Elon Musk-led company isn’t letting up, so it won’t be easy. In third place is SAIC —which has a joint venture with General Motors—selling 154,623 cars in the first two quarters of 2022.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2020

The City of Fort Worth, Texas has approved a $68.9-million million economic incentive package for electric-motor-manufacturer Linear Labs ( earlier post ) to further solidify the city as the next tech innovation hub. —Brad Hunstable, Co-Founder and CEO of Linear Labs.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

US President Joe Biden may have already proven that he can say the word “Tesla” in public, but he may still need some prodding when it comes to acknowledging that the Texas-based EV maker is a true-blue American company. million vehicles in 2022.

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