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Chrysler Group launches second phase of PHEV minivan project

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Components of the flex-fuel PHEV minivan. Other deployments are in Arizona, North Carolina and Michigan. With this completion of the demonstration fleet’s deployment, the second, data-collection phase of Chrysler Group LLC’s plug-in hybrid minivan project now begins. Click to enlarge.

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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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These next-generation vehicles will include an all-new Honda plug-in hybrid model (PHEV); an all-new Honda battery-electric vehicle (BEV); and further applications of two- and three-motor hybrid systems. Earlier post.) New VTEC Turbo Engines.

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FPL Group and Duke Energy Pledge 10-year, $600M+ Commitment to Transition Fleets to PHEVs and EVs

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Duke Energy and FPL Group will begin this transition in the coming years with the goal that 100% of all new fleet vehicles will be plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) by 2020. Duke Energy is the third largest electric power holding company in the United States, based on kilowatt-hour sales.

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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. In December 2008, Celgard received a $2.3-million Earlier post.).

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DOE awarding $6M to 11 projects to accelerate alternative fuel vehicle market growth

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The Southeast AFV Demonstration Initiative (SADI) will carry out a multi-fuel, multi- state vehicle demonstration program complete with vehicles, driver education and marketing strategies to help incorporate alternative fuels into new fleets and industry sectors in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

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Toyota's Additional $8 Billion For North Carolina Plant Supports EV, Hybrid, PHEV Batteries

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It is Toyota’s single largest investment in the US, and will create 3,000 new jobs.