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OCTOBER 29, 2021

QM Power and the SPARK Lab at University of Kentucky shared the combined results of a large-scale, multi-objective design optimization study, and lab testing of a prototype motor designed to meet the 2025 power density goals set by the US Department of Energy (DOE). An open frame lab prototype was designed and manufactured by QM Power.

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AUGUST 26, 2021

Starting in 2023, a dedicated line at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky (TMMK) will begin assembling integrated dual fuel cell (FC) modules destined for use in hydrogen-powered, heavy-duty commercial trucks. —David Rosier, Toyota Kentucky powertrain head.

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APRIL 14, 2022

Envision AESC, a leading Japanese electric vehicle battery technology company, will invest $2 billion to build a new gigafactory in the Kentucky Transpark in Bowling Green, Warren County. Selected for its strong automotive manufacturing base, skilled workforce and excellent infrastructure, Kentucky is already the nation’s No.

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JUNE 1, 2023

Toyota will assemble an all-new, three-row, battery electric SUV at Toyota Kentucky starting in 2025. Over the last two years, the company has invested more than $8 billion in its US manufacturing operations primarily to support its product electrification efforts.

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

Ascend Elements has begun construction of its largest electric vehicle battery recycling and engineered materials manufacturing facility. Ascend Elements plans to invest close to $1 billion in the 140-acre campus and 500,000-square-foot manufacturing facility. Earlier post.)

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 27, 2023

Ford stated in September 2021 that it would establish Ford BlueOval SK Battery Park in Kentucky and Ford BlueOval City in Tennessee, two large sites dedicated to producing EVs and EV batteries.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The United Automotive Workers (UAW) have come to a tentative local agreement at a Ford factory in Kentucky, after the union threatened to put the site’s almost 9,000 workers on strike last week if a deal wasn’t reached. The post Ford and UAW reached a tentative local agreement at Kentucky plant appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Teslarati

APRIL 28, 2023

Rivian plans to spend $10 million in a remanufacturing facility in Kentucky as the automaker continues to ramp up production of its all-electric vehicles. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said Rivian would invest $10 million in the plant and plans to upgrade its current facility. I look forward to their continued success here.”

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Teslarati

JULY 26, 2023

Rivian plans to convert the Starfire Mine in Kentucky to a solar energy center. The Starfire Mine, Kentucky, was once one of the largest coal mines in the United States. It will be one of Kentucky’s largest renewable power projects once converted. The conversion is estimated to be a $1 billion solar project.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The United Auto Workers (UAW) launched an unexpected strike against Ford Motor Company, targeting its extremely important truck works in Kentucky. Ford’s Kentucky Truck Assembly, located in Louisville, is responsible for Ford Super Duty pickups, the Ford Expedition and the Lincoln Navigator. Image: UAW] Become a& TTAC& insider.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As part of the Ford+ plan for growth and value-creation, Ford Motor Company is investing $700 million in new investment and creating 500 additional hourly manufacturing jobs in Kentucky. This will support an all-new F-Series Super Duty pickup being built at Ford’s Kentucky Truck plant in Louisville.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2022

Toyota will invest $383 million in four of its US manufacturing plants—in Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee—to support the production of four-cylinder engines, including options for hybrid electric vehicles. —Norm Bafunno, senior vice president, Unit Manufacturing and Engineering, Toyota. 222 million.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

billion investment in its Georgetown, Kentucky, assembly plant to prepare for production of a 3-row electric SUV. This additional money, which brings the plant’s total investment to nearly $10 billion, “supports the previously announced future BEV assembly at Toyota Kentucky,” according to a company press release.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Ford and SK Innovation broke ground today in Glendale, Kentucky, on a battery factory that will create 5,000 new jobs. The training for these workers will also take place locally at the new Elizabethtown Community and Technical College BlueOval SK Training Center.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 1, 2024

Kentucky State Capitol. Photo by Mobilus in Mobili on Flickr As of January 1st, Kentucky has implemented not one but two new taxes on electric vehicles, both of which are individually higher than what gas vehicles pay on similar units of energy. cents, compared to a current average gas price of $2.78 per gallon in the state).

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

billion investment in its Kentucky factory to build EVs, including its three-row electric SUV for the US market. The investment supports the previously announced future battery EV assembly at Toyota Kentucky. It’s also adding a battery pack assembly line, with batteries being supplied by Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. Underground transmission lines will then carry the electricity to Toyota’s manufacturing plant, located a few miles south of the landfill. Since 2006, the Kentucky plant has been a zero-landfill facility. As solid waste naturally breaks down in a landfill, it creates biogas.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 13, 2022

Kentucky Governor Beshear just announced today that Envision AESC, a world-leading Japanese electric vehicle battery technology company, will be investing $2 billion in Bowling Green, Kentucky, to build a 30 GWh gigafactory.

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Baua Electric

MAY 31, 2023

made electrical car in Kentucky origination in 2025, the automaker mentioned Wednesday. Toyota will create the three-row electrical crossover at its biggest manufacturing plant globally, in Georgetown, Ky. It is going to have six battery manufacturing traces, 4 for hybrid cars and two for electrical cars. Toyota Motor Corp.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2017

billion investment in Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. TNGA represents a completely new strategy for the way the company designs, engineers, and manufactures its vehicles. Toyota Kentucky is the automaker’s largest plant in the world, employing 8,200 team members. Toyota Motor is making a $1.33-billion

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The company is increasing line speed at its Kentucky Truck Plant to build more Lincoln Navigator and Ford Expedition SUVs, boosting production targets approximately 25% since last fall when the SUVs hit the market. This investment and advanced manufacturing upgrades are examples of the company’s quest to improve its operational fitness.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2023

billion to BlueOval SK LLC (BOSK) for the construction of three manufacturing plants to produce batteries for Ford Motor Company’s future Ford and Lincoln electric vehicles. Together, the plants, one located in Tennessee and two in Kentucky, will enable more than 120 GWh of US battery production annually. Earlier post.)

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 1, 2023

which is scheduled to start out manufacturing in 2025. The joint building and manufacturing technique provides Subaru a bigger EV occasion permitting it to proceed to run at supremacy pace its U.S. Manufacturing of hydrogen gasoline mobile drivetrains for heavy-duty vehicles is ready to start out in December.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2012

This investment will increase engine production at the Kentucky plant to more than 500,000 annually and will increase total engine production in the United States to more than 1.2 Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky (TMMK) currently assembles engines for the Avalon, Camry and Venza, all built at TMMK. million per year.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The US National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is collaborating with the University of Kentucky and their subcontractor Virginia Tech to demonstrate a novel process for the extraction of REEs from coal using plasma. The collaborators researched using low-temperature plasma to pretreat coal-based materials resourced from West Kentucky No.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Aleris will invest $350 million to upgrade capabilities at its aluminum rolling mill in Lewisport, Kentucky. We are excited to bring these capabilities to our Lewisport, Kentucky facility to serve automotive customers in North America as they shift toward significantly greater aluminum use.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2023

By adding these critical evaluation capabilities around automotive batteries, our team is positioned to better serve the needs of our customers, including Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, the latter of which will soon be assembling the recently announced all-new, three-row, battery electric SUV.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Obama also launched a competition for a new manufacturing innovation institute to build US strength in manufacturing advanced composites, the first of four new competitions to be launched this year. Lightweight And Modern Metals Manufacturing. performing metals and alloys by removing technological barriers to their manufacture.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

the parent company of the Tokyo-based specialty chemicals group Toyo Ink Group, has established a new manufacturing subsidiary, LioChem e-Materials LLC, for the production of Lioaccum conductive carbon nanotube (CNT) dispersions used in lithium-ion battery (LiB) cathodes. Toyo Ink SC Holdings Co., in Georgia.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2016

will manufacture and sell aluminum extrusions for the automotive sector in the United States. KPEX) in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The establishment of KPEX will enable Kobe Steel to manufacture and supply the same high-quality aluminum extrusions and fabricated products available in Japan in the North American market.

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InsideEVs

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Two new battery gigafactories will be built in the next few years - one in Kentucky and one in South Carolina.

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Teslarati

MAY 31, 2023

Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc (TMMK) will produce the all-electric, three-row SUV starting in 2025. This is incredible news that furthers Kentucky as the center of the electric vehicle sector,” said Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear. TMMK is located in Georgetown, Kentucky, and made its first Camry in May 1988.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 8, 2023

The post Toyota to manufacture $48M EV battery lab in Michigan appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News. On the unutilized laboratory, Toyota will incorporate in the community produced battery portions and fabrics sourced from its alternative North American spouse providers, the observation added.

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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

MAY 3, 2023

SK On, a leading electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturer, signed a joint development agreement (JDA) with US graphite company Westwater Resources (WWR) as part of efforts to strengthen its battery raw material supply chain in North America following the enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

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JUNE 8, 2023

The new 30 GWh battery plant builds on AESC’s existing battery manufacturing network that includes a plant in operation in Tennessee and another plant under construction in Kentucky. Aligning with the company’s global commitment to sustainability, the new manufacturing plant will be 100% powered by clean energy.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2023

US-based graphite processor Urbix ( earlier post ) announced a Joint Development Agreement with global EV battery developer and manufacturer SK On (SKO). In the US, SKO has two battery manufacturing plants in Commerce, Georgia, with the second plant scheduled to be operational in 2023.

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