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Toyota boosts BEV production target to 600,000 units in 2025: report

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However, a new report shows that the Japanese company is now looking to accelerate into BEVs faster than initially planned, with an updated production target for the year after next. By comparison, Tesla sold roughly 1.31 The post Toyota boosts BEV production target to 600,000 units in 2025: report appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Ford announces 11.4B investments on production and battery plants for its EV lineup

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billion in Tennessee and Kentucky for its electric vehicle production line. With the investments, Ford Motor Company plans to build environmentally and technologically advanced campuses in Tennessee (TN) and Kentucky (KY). The other two battery plants will be built in Kentucky and will generate up to 5,000 new jobs in the area.

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Tesla’s Fremont Factory was the most productive auto factory in the U.S. in 2021

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New data from Bloomberg states that Tesla’s Fremont Factory in Northern California was the most-productive automotive plant in the U.S., Last year, Tesla’s Fremont Factory averaged a weekly production pace of 8,550 vehicles. Most impressively, Tesla has continued to expand its yearly production capacity as a company.

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Toyota to produce electric cars in the US as early as 2025: report

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As per recent reports, this pivot would be evident in the United States, which would see domestic production of Toyota electric cars as early as 2025. Nikkei Asia noted on Tuesday that Toyota would start producing electric vehicles in Kentucky as early as 2025. In comparison, electric vehicle leader Tesla sold around 1.31

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US Coal companies merge: Murray Energy acquires controlling interest in Foresight Energy GP LLC for $1.395B

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million tons of combined production last year, according to the companies’ respective annual reports. As a point of comparison, Peabody Energy, the world’s largest coal company, with operations in the US and Australia, produced 227.2 Murray with ~65 million, Foresight with 22.5

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UAW and Big Three ratify contracts with 64% of workers voting in favor

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By comparison, Ford passed the contract with around 69 percent voting in favor, while roughly 68 percent of Stellantis workers voted to adopt the updated contract. Ford CEO Jim Farley said on Monday that the automaker is moving to accelerate back to full production capacity in the days to come following the ratification of the UAW agreement.

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DOE Selects 8 Projects to Advance Technologies for the Co-Production of Power and Hydrogen, Fuels or Chemicals from Coal-Biomass Feedstocks

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Awards are in three areas: Reprocessing and Conditioning of Coal/Biomass Mixtures for Simultaneous Co-Feeding Systems; Reactive Properties of Coal/Biomass Mixed Fuels; and Design Concepts for Co-Production of Power, Fuels and Chemicals. CoalTek, teaming with the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research in Lexington, Ky.,

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