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UAW gears up for combat over battery assistant pay

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Ford has plans for 3 battery crops with its Korean spouse SK On in a three way partnership referred to as BlueOval SK, in Kentucky and Tennessee, and one with Chinese language spouse CATL in Michigan, founding in 2025. Stellantis will unhidden a plant in Indiana with Samsung SDI in 2025.

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Study finds ride-sharing companies biggest contributors to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco

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Researchers from the University of Kentucky and the San Francisco County Transportation Authority have determined that, contrary to the concept and vision, transportation network companies such as Uber and Lyft are the biggest contributor to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco.

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Oklahoma and Colorado governors pitch CNG vehicle initiative to US auto manufacturers

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The letter referred to a multi-state Request for Information (RFI), asking manufacturers to provide background and information in anticipation of a multi-state solicitation later this summer. The move is both a cost-saving measure for states and a means to incentivize the manufacture of affordable and functional CNG vehicles.

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New lightweight metals institute will be headquartered in Detroit

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The White House has referred to the institute as a “teaching factory.”. Most of these jobs will be in the metal stamping, metalworking, machining and casting industries that are dominant in the Midwest. Beyond its R&D efforts, the institute aims to help educate the next generation of manufacturing’s technical workforce.

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Progress! IRA signed into law

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Our EVA chapter is already listed as a stakeholder with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, ” explained Mike Proctor, Publicity Chair of Kentucky chapter EVOLVE KY. Additional references Vehicles meeting US assembly requirements IRS : Which incentive applies? We do whatever we can to support all of that.” Old or new?

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Toyota to form hydrogen gasoline cells in Kentucky in December

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” Tapping into vehicles Yamagata declined to trade in a manufacturing quantity determine for the Kentucky operation, regardless that he stated it might be low. The programs that might be made in Kentucky are according to the similar era worn within the Mirai gasoline mobile sedan.

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Westwater Resources is building a facility in Alabama to process one of the largest graphite deposits in the US

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Produced” refers to the percentage of value added during production. Just one of SK’s plants in Kentucky or Georgia or Tennessee would require roughly that amount of graphite. By 2027, the critical material requirement will increase to 80%. Jon Jacobs: That’s tough to predict, but it’s not going to be easy.

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