CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Tennessee busts into renewable energy spotlight with new Ford electric vehicle campus and an assist from the TVA.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 19, 2021

GM has already started reconfiguring its Tennessee factory to build electric cars. Now it has announced a new battery factory in partnership with LG Energy Solution next door.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The 2018 Nissan Leaf electric car will start to appear at Nissan dealers in January, the company said Monday. That availability came in an announcement that the second-generation electric car officially went into production the same day at Nissan's sprawling assembly plant in Smyrna, Tennessee.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Today, battery-electric cars are built in volume at only three locations across the entire United States. Tesla builds its three different electric models in Fremont, California; the new 2018 Nissan Leaf has just gone into production in Smyrna, Tennessee; and the Chevrolet Bolt EV is built at the Orion Assembly Plant in Michigan.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 20, 2021

4 electric car has rolled off the production line at the automaker's Chattanooga, Tennessee, factory, VW Group of America CEO Scott Keogh announced Thursday in a LinkedIn post. Finished in Glacier White Metallic, the first completed car is a validation build used to. The first Volkswagen ID.4

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2019

The Nissan LEAF is the first electric car to surpass 400,000 sales. Introduced in 2010 as the world’s first mass-market electric vehicle, the Nissan LEAF has led the way in making the excitement and convenience of electric driving accessible to non-luxury buyers. Sales of the LEAF e+ began in late January in Japan.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

According to reports, US President Biden said that the Australian electric vehicle charging company Tritium DCFC will build a charging pile factory in Tennessee, USA, which will have a “ripple effect” that will benefit American workers and the entire planet. Biden said charging electric cars in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Green Commuter, an LA-based startup introducing a vanpool and car share service there with a fleet of Tesla Model X vehicles ( earlier post ), has received a $750,000 grant from the Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority (CARTA) to launch an electric car sharing service in the Tennessee city.

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Electric Cars Report

APRIL 3, 2024

The Ultium Cells plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee successfully shipped its first battery cells to its customer, General Motors. This milestone represents the culmination of two and a half years of work.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Nissan has received local government approval to add more than 26,000 square feet of floor space to the Smyrna, Tennessee, plant where it produces batteries used in the Leaf electric car.

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Electric Cars Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

LG Chem has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the state of Tennessee to establish a new cathode manufacturing facility in Clarksville with an investment of more than USD 3 billion.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 17, 2012

If you live in Tennessee and you're holding out for more electric cars to hit the market, then you could be in luck. So far, only buyers of the Nissan Leaf have been benefitting from the $2,500 electric car rebate, with no other electric vehicles to choose from. million fund, there's still $1.93.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 16, 2020

4 electric crossover and the production model that follows the ID Buzz electric-van concept—two models destined for the United States. In a Wednesday press release, VW said it had ordered 1,400 robots for factories in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Emden.

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Electric Cars Report

MARCH 24, 2023

The electric vehicle and battery manufacturing campus in West Tennessee begins production in 2025, and will be home to Ford’s second-generation electric […] The post Ford To Build Next Electric Truck – ‘Project T3’ – At BlueOval City appeared first on Electric Cars Report. Ford, the No.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Ultium Cells LLC, the battery-making JV between LG Chem and GM, has announced plans to invest an additional $275 million in its Spring Hill, TN, plant. The cash infusion is expected to increase the plant’s battery production capacity by more than 40% (from 35 gigawatt-hours to 50 GWh), and create more than 400 new jobs. […].

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store is becoming a major participant in The EV Project and will install 24 Blink electric vehicle (EV) chargers, provided by ECOtality, Inc., at select locations in “The Tennessee Triangle,” the 425-mile stretch of interstate highway that connects Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 21, 2022

The US-built Volkswagen ID.4 4 will include a version with a smaller 62 kWh battery that sells for less than the standard version.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Volkswagen Group of America is launching a joint research project with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to develop high-power wireless charging for electric cars.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 29, 2013

We always love seeing how electric cars are made. There''s something fascinating about watching a car go right from the metal presses to rolling out of the factory. That''s.'

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Volkswagen has broken ground on an $800 million expansion of its Tennessee production facility that will eventually house assembly lines for electric vehicles. The Wednesday announcement marks the beginning of a shift toward battery-electric vehicles for the U.S. While Americans will not see this generation of VW's new ID 3.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 15, 2019

A day after Volkswagen announced that it will bring production of its electric cars to its U.S. factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the company announced that it plans to sign a memorandum of understanding to work with Ford to jointly develop electric cars and self-driving cars.

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Electric Cars Report

AUGUST 25, 2022

Tritium DCFC Limited, a Brisbane-based manufacturer of direct current fast chargers for electric vehicles, has opened its new EV fast charger manufacturing facility, and its first US-based EV fast charger manufacturing facility, located in Lebanon, Tennessee.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 4, 2024

Nissan’s flagship electric crossover now available at a more accessible and competitive price point NASHVILLE, Tennessee — The 2024 Nissan. continued] The post Nissan Enhances Starting Price of 2024 Nissan Ariya to $39,590 appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Electric Cars Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Volkswagen is collaborating with the Tennessee Valley Authority as the utility corporation sets a goal of operating a 100 percent electric sedan and SUV fleet by the year 2030. 4 builds at SEMA Show appeared first on Electric Cars Report. As one of its early steps, […] The post Volkswagen presents two unique ID.4

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Electric Cars Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

LG Chem aims to bolster cooperation with GM in the North American market by utilizing its cathode plant in Tennessee, U.S. billion appeared first on Electric Cars Report. as a production hub for the global battery material market.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The state may be famous for Elvis Presley and Dolly Parton, but it’s the arrival of a new fast charger for electric cars that will be music to the ears of Tennessee natives. ECOtality has teamed up with the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store to unveil the Blink Direct Current Fast Charger at the Lebanon [.].

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

billion into new electric car production facilities in Kentucky and Tennessee. Ford and SK Innovation will pour $11.4

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Green Car Reports

MAY 18, 2016

The Nissan Leaf, by far the world's best-selling electric car, is built in three countries. Outside Nissan's home market of Japan, Leafs are assembled in both Smyrna, Tennessee, and at Nissan's Sunderland plant in the U.K.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

A Tesla Supercharger in Tennessee was blocked by a Mercedes-Benz EQS owned by a local dealership amid a busy travel time for Thanksgiving Day. Was it a publicity stunt or a clueless customer who didn’t know how to use the electric car? appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 13, 2020

Volkswagen previously confirmed that it will build electric cars for the North American market at its Chattanooga, Tennessee, factory. On Wednesday the automaker said it also plans to do some engineering work there, too.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 30, 2022

China figures into decisions by both Volkswagen and Tesla when it comes to deciding where to build there electric car factories.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 8, 2014

The 2014 Nissan Leaf is now rolling off the assembly lines in Tennessee, and the first examples should arrive at dealerships this week or next. Now, after a long wait, we have information on the updates to the electric car for the new model year.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 14, 2013

We know the specifications and details of the 2013 Nissan Leaf, which has now gone into in Smyrna, Tennessee. But the missing piece of information has always been: What will the battery electric car cost now that it's built in North America?

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Green Car Reports

MAY 20, 2013

Making a battery for an electric car is more like assembling microelectronics than the kind of auto-plant scenes we think of, involving huge steel stamping presses and battalions of automated welding robots.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Nissan said today it has opened a plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, to fabricate lithium-ion cells for electric-car batteries. Those cells will go into electric cars. Just two years after the first Nissan Leaf was sold in the U.S.,

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Teslarati

JANUARY 23, 2023

CEO Makoto Uchida acknowledged that the market for electric vehicles is growing faster than anticipated in the United States. He also noted that Nissan will invest $250 million in its powertrain facility in Decherd, Tennessee. Expectations are high that the new investment would expand the Tennessee plant’s electric motor output.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 22, 2013

While the number of plug-in electric cars built in the U.S. The 2013 Nissan Leaf, now coming off the assembly line in Smyrna, Tennessee, is powered by lithium-ion.' is steadily increasing, the lithium-ion cells in their batteries have mostly come from overseas.

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