Electric Cars Report

JULY 14, 2022

Global leader in lithium-ion batteries Panasonic Energy and Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly jointly announced that the state of Kansas has approved an Attracting Powerful Economic Expansion (APEX) state incentive application submitted by Panasonic Energy Co.,

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Green Car Reports

JULY 13, 2022

The battery maker Panasonic Energy has announced plans to build an electric vehicle battery factory in the Kansas City area. And this plant, which will be Panasonic’s first in the U.S. outside of its Tesla partnership, it claims will be the largest battery plant in the world.

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Electric Cars Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Panasonic Energy Co., The facility in De Soto, Kansas will be the Company’s second EV battery facility in the U.S., The facility in De Soto, Kansas will be the Company’s second EV battery facility in the U.S.,

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Kansas state senator Mike Thompson (R-Shawnee), a former meteorologist, is not a supporter of clean energy. So he’s sponsoring a bill that could kneecap Kansas’ thriving wind power industry.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 11, 2024

A rendering of Panasonic’s upcoming facility in De Soto, Kansas / Source: Panasonic Tesla battery supplier Panasonic Energy is considering pouring new investments potentially up to $4 billion in its De Soto, Kansas, plant to produce 4680 battery cells for the Tesla Cybertruck and Tesla’s next-gen vehicles.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 14, 2022

Panasonic is likely to invest up to $4 billion into a new factory for Tesla batteries in Kansas. It’s all about the batteries. While there are other supply chain challenges lately, the number one barrier to faster electric vehicle sales growth year after year is lack of batteries. That goes for Tesla as well as […].

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Teslarati

APRIL 16, 2024

Recently, Panasonic Energy unveiled its Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center with partner Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC). “Since 2017, Panasonic Energy has worked with TMCC to provide educational opportunities to communities in northern Nevada and invest in talent development in the region.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Tesla battery partner Panasonic has stated that it intends to start the buildout of its Kansas, US plant this November. With its Kansas plant, Panasonic is making a serious play for the United States’ fast-growing electric vehicle segment. Kansas officials have shared their excitement for Panasonic’s new battery plant.

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Teslarati

JUNE 29, 2022

In a recent press release, the Leawood Police Department in Kansas announced that it had acquired a Tesla Model Y Long Range for its fleet. Captain Kirt Yoder, the agency’s project manager, noted that Tesla Kansas had been quite helpful. Tesla-Kansas City was great. This estimate was based on the 2021 cost of $0.08

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Green Car Reports

JULY 14, 2022

Panasonic expects to achieve a 20% boost in energy density for EV batteries by 2030, the company's CTO said in an interview with Reuters published Wednesday. The interview preceded the company's announcement to build the largest battery plant in the world in Kansas City.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2021

Seaboard Energy has chosen Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex hydroprocessing fuel technology to produce renewable diesel from tallow and soybean oil. The 6,500 barrels-per-day renewable diesel unit is currently under construction at Seaboard Energy’s site in Hugoton, Kansas, and is scheduled for operation at the end of 2021.

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Teslarati

MARCH 3, 2022

Panasonic is reportedly looking at factory sites in either Oklahoma or Kansas. On February 28, 2022, Panasonic announced that its Energy Company plans to establish a production facility at Wakayama Factory in western Japan. Panasonic and Tesla have been partners for quite some time.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2019

Supported by a new five-year, $500,000- grant from the National Science Foundation, a researcher from the University of Kansas is developing machine learning technology to monitor and prevent overheating in lithium-ion batteries. During the past decade, lithium batteries have become the most popular batteries for energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

NextChem, an Italian renewable energy technology company, is partnering with Kansas-based Saola Energy to support the production of renewable diesel from vegetable oils and residual fats. NextChem and Saola Energy will combine their relative knowhow and expertise to deliver a comprehensive solution to the marketplace.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 5, 2024

Battery supplier Panasonic Energy has signed a long-term agreement with H&T Recharge, a German battery component manufacturer, for the supply of battery cans in North America. Panasonic and H&T have collaborated since 2017—H&T has supplied approximately 40 GWh of battery can capacity annually to Panasonic Energy’s Nevada facility.

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EV Specifications

JULY 25, 2023

Panasonic Energy announced the signing of an agreement to purchase silicon anode material for automotive batteries from U.K.-based Nexeon’s silicon anode material will be used for lithium-ion batteries to be manufactured at a new facility in De Soto, Kansas, U.S., In general, achieving a higher energy.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2011

Oklahoma-based oil and gas company SandRidge Energy, Inc. has entered into a joint venture with a subsidiary of Spain-based Repsol YPF, S.A.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Panasonic Energy signed a long-term supply agreement with H&T Recharge for lithium-ion battery cans in North America. Third Panasonic EV battery plant in the US is still possible The new supply agreement between the two companies is for Panasonic Energy’s facility in Kansas, which is expected to start operations by March 2025.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

The Kansas Geological Survey based at the University of Kansas has received a nearly $5 million grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to study the feasibility of storing carbon dioxide underground. and Bittersweet Energy Inc. and Bittersweet Energy Inc. Lynn Watney.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $13.4 million in support of five new cost-shared, community-based projects focused on energy efficient mobility systems including connected and autonomous vehicles and alternative fuel vehicles and infrastructure including natural gas, propane, biofuels, hydrogen, and electricity.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 6, 2021

The Kansas City Metropolitan Energy Center (MEC) will install streetlight-based EV charging stations under a pilot program evaluating curbside charging.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2023

California accounts for nearly all renewable diesel consumption in the United States, but most of it isn’t made in the state, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). More than eight times the renewable diesel was consumed in California than was produced there in 2021.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The financing was led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures with participation from Mercuria, John Deere and Clean Energy Ventures. The company completed its $3 million Series Seed financing in early 2020, led by Clean Energy Ventures.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved a $5-million payment to Western Plains Energy, LLC to support the construction of a biogas anaerobic digester in Oakley, KS. Western Plains Energy expects to complete construction of the biogas digester in August. It is scheduled to become fully operational in 2013.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2022

For example: In Iowa, Southwest Renewable Energy LLC is receiving a payment of $3 million. In Illinois, Adkins Energy is receiving a $774,000 payment. In Texas, White Energy Holding Company is receiving a $21 million payment for production at two facilities. It suffered a market loss on 14.3 million gallons of ethanol.

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Electrek

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Gray County Wind Farm in Kansas is celebrating its 20th birthday. Clean energy now provides 25.22% of total US available installed generating capacity. more… The post EGEB: Kansas’s first big wind farm turns 20. Click here to learn more and get your quotes. — *ad.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2021

million in additional financing from several investors, including the Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas and Illinois Corn Growers Associations. ClearFlame Engine Technologies , a growing startup dedicated to the development of clean engine technology ( earlier post ), secured $2.5

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Panasonic has agreed to purchase cathode materials and copper foil from Redwood Materials for its battery factories in Nevada and Kansas.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2021

The announcement includes investments in California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Texas and Wisconsin.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $19 million for 13 projects in traditionally fossil-fuel-producing communities across the country to support production of rare earth elements and critical minerals essential to the manufacturing of batteries, magnets, and other components important to the clean energy economy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2015

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. will construct new compressed natural gas (CNG) stations for Arlington Transit (ART) in Arlington County, Virginia; Nassau Inter-County Express (NICE) in Long Island, NY; and North Kansas City (MO) School District, which is set to become the largest school district in the US to transition its school bus fleet to CNG.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2016

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made 11 awards totaling $55 million aimed at building research capacity to develop new innovations at the intersection of food, energy and water systems and to address fundamental questions about the brain. Research at the nexus of food, energy and water. Lead organization. Description.

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Teslarati

JUNE 5, 2023

Elon Musk and other Tesla executives have always been clear that the company would still buy battery cells from its partners, including LG Energy Solutions, Panasonic, and CATL in China. The Japanese battery supplier already selected Kansas as the site for a 4680 plant. Panasonic shifted its plans for the Kansas facility.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 20, 2023

We are grateful for the conversations we had with officials from across the political spectrum to discuss the potential for Oklahoma to play a role in Panasonic Energy’s growing footprint across North America. The Japanese battery supplier is also establishing a lithium-ion battery factory in De Soto, Kansas.

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Electric Auto Association

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Kansas City EAA chapter members challenge government regulation as part of their efforts to support clean energy. These homeowners generate their electricity and many of them put energy back into the grid, and they’ve still had to pay these ridiculous charges,” said MAEAA President Al Pugsley.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $27.5 Modern technology has the potential to reduce energy use in aging water infrastructure, particularly in wastewater treatment, which demands up to 2% of domestic electricity use each year. million to 16 water infrastructure projects.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

US production capacity for renewable diesel could more than double from current levels by the end of 2025, based on several announcements for projects that are either under construction or could start development soon, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). billion gallons per year (gal/y), at the end of 2022.

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