Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2022

Volkswagen of America (VWoA) has started of production of its all-electric ID.4 In addition, a rear-wheel-drive version with a 62kWh battery will go into production later in 2022, with a lower MSRP. The EV battery will be supplied by SK Innovation located in Georgia. As part of the preparation to launch the ID.4,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2022

The funds are being made available through the Biofuel Producer Program, which was created as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act). Its biomass-based diesel production suffered a market loss on almost 3.5 Its ethanol production suffered a market loss on 98 million gallons. million gallons.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 24, 2022

New data from Bloomberg states that Tesla’s Fremont Factory in Northern California was the most-productive automotive plant in the U.S., Last year, Tesla’s Fremont Factory averaged a weekly production pace of 8,550 vehicles. Most impressively, Tesla has continued to expand its yearly production capacity as a company.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Four rare earth elements (REEs) recovery projects managed by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) ( earlier post ) have made significant progress in the development of a domestic supply of REEs from coal and coal by-products by successfully producing REE concentrates.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2022

The company detailed its global vehicle portfolio plans supporting these production goals as part of its Ford+ plan. This creates even more capacity for high-demand products and provides customers many years of operation with minimal range loss. BHP: For nickel supply from BHP’s Nickel West operations in Australia.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2014

is supplying ultracapacitors to ABB for its recent contract win to upgrade Philadelphia area rail lines. —Jacques Poulin, ABB’s product manager for energy storage and rail. Maxwell Technologies, Inc.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Workers represented by the United Auto Workers (UAW) have been striking against the Big Three (Ford, General Motors (GM) and Stellantis) for over a month now, and layoffs due to supply chain disruptions have also been ongoing. The UAW’s strikes earlier this month targeted the Kentucky factory, resulting in a walkout of around 9,000 workers.

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Teslarati

JULY 26, 2022

Volkswagen of America announced earlier today it has started production of its flagship electric vehicle in the United States, the ID.4, The factory is the sixth EV production site for VW vehicles. 4 will be sourced in the North American region, with most of its parts coming from the U.S. The American-assembled ID.4

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The automaker on Friday said it had received approval from Japanese regulators for a plan that would see it gradually implement production of next-generation cells starting in 2026, including solid-state cells. All three types of advanced cells may eventually reach production volumes of 9 gigawatt-hours per year.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

This is part of a strategy to replace the alphanumeric naming scheme used by the Toyota bZ4X —currently the only EV in Toyota’s U.S. Toyota confirmed a 3-row electric SUV in 2023, due for 2025 production in Kentucky. lineup—for more conventional names, according to the report.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2009

The National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries (NAATBatt) ( earlier post ) has selected a site in Hardin County, Kentucky to build a more than $600-million automotive lithium-ion battery plant. Kentucky was selected over Texas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

These highly concentrated samples are greater than 300 parts per million (ppm). Concentrations of rare earths at 300 ppm are integral to the commercial viability of extracting REEs from coal and coal by-products, making NETL’s finding significant in the effort to develop economical domestic supplies of these elements.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ford Motor Company will build two new massive, environmentally and technologically advanced campuses in Tennessee and Kentucky that will produce the next generation of electric F-Series trucks and the batteries to power future electric Ford and Lincoln vehicles. An all-new $5.6-billion billion mega-campus in Stanton, Tenn. (a

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Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

Toyota announced it’s preparing its three-row electric SUV as part of a new $1.4 Toyota revealed it would launch a new three-row electric SUV in the US last May as part of ten new EVs set to roll out globally. However, that electric SUV will be built at its Kentucky plant, set for production next year.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

billion will go to 9 projects in the component manufacturing segment of the supply chain. intends to set up an advanced prelithiation and lithium anode manufacturing facility to accelerate the transition to next-generation lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries and enable the development of a robust US battery component supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2015

As part of this strategy, Toyota will invest approximately US$1 billion to construct its newest North American manufacturing facility in the state of Guanajuato in Central Mexico to produce the Corolla. The truck beds are used in production at TMMBC and at TMMTX in Texas.). TMMK) and Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Indiana, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2022

billion will go to 9 projects in the component manufacturing segment of the supply chain. intends to set up an advanced prelithiation and lithium anode manufacturing facility to accelerate the transition to next-generation lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries and enable the development of a robust US battery component supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2009

ZAP has completed an engineering project to develop a four-wheel electric pickup with the majority of the parts and components supplied by US companies. Earlier this year, ZAP Motor Manufacturing Kentucky (ZMMK), based in Franklin, Kentucky, applied to the Department of Energy for a $160 million loan application.

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Teslarati

JUNE 24, 2022

With used vehicles selling at prices sometimes as much as or higher than brand new models due to parts shortages and semiconductor constraints, Ford may be looking to take used EVs and make another profit on them after an initial lease is up. battery production.” battery production.”

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Over 1,000 miles away, the blast knocked out electricity supply in parts of Hawaii and disrupted telephone service for a period of time. Landmark research, the product of collaboration between the U.S. covering portions of Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2010

3 Balance Hybrid Electric shuttle buses to the City of Paducah, Kentucky. These sales result from an existing contract with the State of Kentucky that was first announced by Azure in August, 2009. Goshen Coach, of Elkhart, Indiana will supply the bodies for the Littleton purchases. North Central Bus Sales in St.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2012

If the renewable energy service goes into production, customers interested in using it would simply need to sign up. This solution connects utilities to companies that have intelligent energy management products. OnStar would then regulate their charging using the renewable energy signal.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2010

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a report outlining both the current state of renewable transportation fuels efforts in the US and a plan to develop regional strategies to increase the production, marketing and distribution of biofuels. Region States Feedstocks Potential production capacity Land use. Resources.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 1, 2023

Q&A with Jon Jacobs of Westwater Resources Everyone in the EV industry is talking about the IRA and the BIL, two sets of federal regulations that include strong incentives for automakers to establish domestic supply chains for EV raw materials and components. Produced” refers to the percentage of value added during production.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman Bill Ford has asked union members to come together and end the UAW strike before it hampers the business’ ability to invest in future products and facilities. Last week 8,700 union members walked out at the largest and most profitable Ford plant in the world , the Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2009

Coal supplies nearly 50% of domestic electricity. Researchers will develop systems for tagging CO 2 with carbon-14 at atmospheric level (1 part per trillion) and measuring the carbon-14 CO 2 levels. The projects’ total value is approximately $35.8 million over four years, with $27.6 million of DOE funding and $8.2

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Application of Advanced Materials Processing to Enable Direct Production of Fast Reactor Fuel Alloys, $1,000,000. Clermont, Kentucky). Highly Efficient Low-Thermal-Budget Hydrogen and Chemical Co-Production via an Electrochemical Activation of Propane, $100,000. Convergent Science Inc. Madison, Wisconsin). Beam Suntory, Inc.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Florida Senator Marco Rubio is calling for an investigation into Ford’s recent announcement of a new battery production facility built in conjunction with Chinese battery supplier CATL. billion facility will be one of the largest battery production facilities in the country. Specifically, Sen. What do you think of the article?

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Push EVs

JULY 21, 2022

The company detailed its global vehicle portfolio plans supporting these production goals as part of its Ford+ plan. This creates even more capacity for high-demand products and provides customers many years of operation with minimal range loss. DEARBORN, Mich., Driving to the 600,000 EV run rate by late 2023.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 9, 2024

“Keeping battery materials in the local supply chain in Europe requires investment and infrastructure,” Ascend Elements CEO Mike O’Kronley told Reuters. Department of Energy grants as part of Biden administration efforts to boost EV battery production. “That’s what we’re doing together.”

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

By some estimates, upwards to 80,000 auto workers and a similar number in the auto supply chain have already been laid off globally to support the EV transition. By some estimates , upwards to 80,000 auto workers and a similar number in the auto supply chain have already been laid off globally to support the EV transition.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 20, 2024

The Kentucky-made three-row Toyota electric SUV that the automaker has been underscoring is on the way has taken on an intriguing twist with new info: that it’s reportedly a Toyota Highlander EV. Various financial incentives will help; so will range and efficiency; but the simple answer may rest on production volume.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Today’s diversified multinational energy companies have invested deeply in solar panels, energy storage, and charging networks, with wells and refineries and combustion only part of the business. China and Mexico, may nix federal funding behind U.S. EV plants Tens of thousands more U.S.

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