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Rivian’s $5 billion U.S. plant has Fort Worth, TX as frontrunner

Teslarati

manufacturing facility, which the company intends to spend $5 billion on, will most likely land in Fort Worth, Texas, as of now. EV market continues to expand. Requires $5 billion private investment from Fort Worth. plant has Fort Worth, TX as frontrunner appeared first on TESLARATI. Paid back in 8.1

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LG Opens Its First EV Charger Manufacturing Factory In The US

Electric Cars Report

The new, 5,500-square-meter facility, located in Fort Worth, Texas, will focus on delivering chargers for the North American market and is expected to have an annual capacity of more than 10,000 units.

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Rivian launches jobs in Germany, Netherlands ahead of European expansion

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Meanwhile, the position in Germany is a Technician for the Launch Team and will help with pre-production vehicle builds, support new Service Centers in the region, improve functional efficiency in service procedures, and help build a well-running team that will handle servicing needs when the company launches its cars in the European market.

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Rivian seeks $80B valuation in confidential IPO filing

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Rivian, an electric car company headed by founder and CEO RJ Scaringe, is set to deliver its first vehicles in September. Rivian will be the first company to bring an all-electric pickup truck to the market when it begins deliveries next month. The company recently rounded up another funding round that was capped with $2.5

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Wallbox enters first phase of build-out for US EV charger plant; 500k units/year by 2025

Green Car Congress

The facility will begin with production lines for Wallbox’s Pulsar Plus AC chargers, its powerful best-selling home charger that can charge any electric car on the market, including Teslas with a converter. The Arlington facility is Wallbox’s fourth manufacturing site, additive to two facilities in Europe and one in China.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

We would like to take this opportunity to report on our efforts to demonstrate to automakers that a market for plug-in hybrid vehicles exists in the United States today. Soft” fleet orders are a critical component of the Plug-In Partners goal of demonstrating to automakers that a market exists for flexible fuel plug-in hybrids.