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Toyota to invest $1.3B to build EVs at its Kentucky plant

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It’s also adding a battery pack assembly line, with batteries being supplied by Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina. In October 2023, Toyota announced it would invest an additional $8 billion in its North Carolina EV battery plant, which it first announced in December 2021, to make batteries for its EVs and PHEVs.

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Honda brings FCV Concept to N. America, promises new EV and PHEV models by 2018

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Honda staged the North American debut of the Honda FCV fuel cell vehicle at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS); the company also announced US availability for the FCV in 2016. Earlier post.). Additionally, Honda said it plans further application of its two- and three-motor hybrid systems in the years to come.

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Letting in the Light

Electric Auto Association

North Carolina chapter spawns an LEV training business. All four men felt that LEVs could eventually be one of the most important forms of personal transportation, and had already been supporting that cause. Smith had introduced LEVs at DiscoverE programs in Central North Carolina middle and high schools.

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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

Louis, and north of Florida. “We Lightning formula Erb is a professor emeritus at University of North Carolina Asheville , where he taught mechatronics engineering. We started off with a bang,” recalled Erb. We screened Who Killed the Electric Car and Revenge of the Electric Car on successive evenings.

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

Cars That Think

It’s in the sun’s rays and radio waves, the skin’s sweat and body heat, a person’s motion and their footfalls. Energy is something we take for granted, because we just plug things into the wall, and it feels as inevitable as air. Personalized health care could revolutionize traditional medical practice,” Gao says. milliwatts.

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NDEW: Profile rising

Electric Auto Association

At the time of this post, 239 in person and online events were listed as confirmed. NDEW 2022 is presented by the Electric Vehicle Association, Plug in America , Sierra Club , and EVHybridnoire. Find the event near you Whether in person or online, see how you can support these truly necessary efforts and have a great time, too.

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Celgard Seeks DOE Grant for Expansion of Electric Drive Vehicle Battery Separator Capacity

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The proposed capacity expansion would be implemented at Celgard’s existing Charlotte, North Carolina, facility and at an additional manufacturing facility that would be built at a second US location in the Southeast. Celgard, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Polypore International, Inc. In December 2008, Celgard received a $2.3-million

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