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AISIN to invest more than $200M in new production lines for two-motor hybrid transmissions in N Carolina

Green Car Congress

AISIN Corporation, the fifth-largest Tier 1 auto supplier in the world, announced today that it will launch two new production lines with a total anticipated investment of more than $200 million at its AISIN North Carolina Corporation (ANC) facility in Durham, North Carolina.

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Mining Giant Albemarle Announces Advanced Lithium Tech Park In North Carolina

CleanTechnica EVs

The #1 provider in the world of lithium for EV batteries is Albemarle Corporation. For the state of North Carolina, that […]. Electrifying transport relies on massively scaling up mining & processing of a handful of minerals. The most famous of those minerals is lithium.

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Penske buys 2 North Carolina luxurious dealerships

Baua Electric

The gang’s web site lists alternative shops in North Carolina and South Carolina promoting Mercedes, Porsche, Infiniti, Maserati, Alfa Romeo, Jaguar, Land Rover, Buick, GMC and Cadillac cars. The corporate, alternatively, posted report second-quarter income of $7.5 Baker Motor Co., and based in 1988. billion, up 8.1

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Sumitomo Corporation of Americas makes strategic investment in hydrogen fuel provider OneH2

Green Car Congress

Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (SCOA), the largest subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation, one of the world’s largest traders of goods and services, has invested in OneH2, a hydrogen fuel company headquartered in Longview, North Carolina.

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Biofuels Center of North Carolina to close due to state’s elimination of its funding

Green Car Congress

The Biofuels Center of North Carolina has begun to shut down operations over a 90-day period and will close its doors by Thursday, 31 October 2013, due to the North Carolina General Assembly’s elimination of its funding in the state budget signed recently by Gov. Pat McCrory.

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Toyota to invest up to $5.6B in battery production in Japan and US

Green Car Congress

Toyota Motor Corporation will invest up to approximately US$5.6 billion will be newly invested in Toyota Battery Manufacturing, North Carolina (TBMNC; owned 90% by Toyota Motor North America, Inc. and 10% by Toyota Tsusho Corporation) toward increasing automotive battery production.

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Audi of America to pilot shared fleet service in North Carolina before 2017 debut

Green Car Congress

Audi of America is piloting the new service “Audi shared fleet” at a technology incubator in Durham, North Carolina ahead of a national rollout of the corporate car-sharing service in 2017. The test fleet will be housed at American Underground, a 115,000 square-foot technology incubator created on the former American Tobacco Co.