Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Mercedes-Benz is realigning its global passenger cars manufacturing activities and is strengthening its German passenger cars locations with investments worth billions of euros. “ The new manufacturing organization Mercedes-Benz Operations (MO) is based on global production networks and centralized responsibility for logistics and quality.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2021

Honda will also further pursue the utilization of local resources, which includes strengthening our collaboration with CATL for the supply of batteries. Honda further commits to supplying its operations with 100% renewable energy and has begun taking steps to achieving this goal. Honda SUV e:prototype shown at Shanghai 2021.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

These VPPAs will enable Honda to fully offset the remaining carbon-intensive grid-supplied electricity being used in its Ohio, Indiana, and Alabama automobile manufacturing operations, and will help the company meet its voluntary carbon reduction goal.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2022

4 is Volkswagen Group’s most popular all-electric model, with 190,000 units delivered to customers globally since its launch in 2021. The factory in Tennessee is now the sixth global site to produce vehicles for Volkswagen’s electric line-up. The EV battery will be supplied by SK Innovation located in Georgia.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2023

Germany represents the largest market for both battery manufacturing scrap and the expected supply of end-of-life lithium-ion batteries in Europe. Li-Cycle’s Germany Spoke leverages existing infrastructure with access to clean renewable energy and key transportation outlets.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2019

In Alabama, Toyota’s $288,000,000 investment will increase annual engine capacity from 670,000 to 900,000 by the end of 2021 to increase product flexibility and better accommodate market demand. million engine blocks a year, which supply every Toyota and Lexus manufactured in North America, and 580,000 transmission cases and housings.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The chief executives of the Renault-Nissan Alliance and Daimler AG said during an annual briefing at the Frankfurt Motor Show that their companies’ partnership ( earlier post ) is advancing quickly, and the scope of the collaboration is increasingly global. tons) is supplied to Nissan and the Nissan Atlas F24 light-duty truck (payload 1.5

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2014

In addition, a high localization rate will significantly increase the Mexican supply base. It also shows how our collaboration, which began in Europe, has become global in scope. The engines will initially be used in European versions of the Infiniti Q50 sports sedan and the Mercedes-Benz C-Class assembled in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2023

President and CEO Jaehoon Chang explained how the company’s second-generation dedicated EV platform, under the new Integrated Modular Architecture (IMA), will replace its Electric-Global Modular Platform (E-GMP) going forward. The proportion of global EV production is set to increase from 8% this year to 34% in 2030.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

As part of the global production network, Tuscaloosa is connected to all Mercedes-Benz Cars locations around the world, allowing a location-independent access to data and process management. The plant will also upgrade its Logistics IT system to create a seamless integration of the supply base into the Mercedes-Benz plant operations.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2022

Mercedes-Benz is aligning its global production network to manufacture its reshaped product portfolio focused on luxury electric vehicles as the brand prepares to go all electric by the end of the decade—wherever market conditions allow. The global Mercedes Benz production network is sustainable, digital and flexible.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2016

We are creating the first integrated supply chain for CMC components in the jet propulsion industry.” Last month, GE broke ground on two factories in Huntsville, Alabama that will produce CMC materials. GE Aviation has announced eight new factories in eight years to respond to record engine orders. —David Joyce.

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Teslarati

MARCH 15, 2022

Mercedes-Benz has announced the launch of a new battery production plant in Bibb County, Alabama, as the German automaker prepares for a commitment to make all of its vehicles electric by 2030. ” Mercedes-Benz’s roots in Alabama go back to 1997 when the company opened a plant in Tuscaloosa for large SUVs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2009

A map accompanying the report shows that most such rocks are found in and around coastal mountain ranges, with the greatest concentrations in California, Oregon and Washington, and along the Appalachians from New England to Alabama. The US survey is the first of what Lackner hopes will become a global mapping effort.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2022

On a PSM, the rotor of the AC motor is fitted with permanent magnets and therefore does not need to be supplied with power. On 15 March 2022, Mercedes-Benz opened a state-of-the-art battery plant in Bibb County, not far from the Mercedes-Benz plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Production: battery systems from Bibb County.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 17, 2024

Hyster , a US manufacturer of forklifts and materials-handling equipment, has agreed to provide 10 battery-powered terminal tractors to shipping company APM Terminals at its location in Port of Mobile, Alabama. Each has a 182,000-pound gross combined weight rating and features a 260 kWh battery pack that provides approximately 9.5

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Cars That Think

APRIL 1, 2022

The global chip shortage’s effect on current products is clear in just about every consumer market in the developed world, reflected in half-empty car dealerships and shuttered manufacturing lines. The supply/demand imbalance has helped to push MCU costs significantly higher, but that’s not the only reason for the price spike.

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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. Charged : Graphite’s a hot property these days. Tell us about Westwater’s plans.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Honda gave the all-new 2016 Honda Pilot SUV its global premiere at the 2015 Chicago Auto Show. Honda VCM deactivates the cylinder by using its VTEC (Variable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control) technology to keep the intake and exhaust valves in the closed position to halt fuel supply. The 2016 Pilot features a new 3.5-liter,

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

University of Alabama. type Hexaferrite The University of Alabama led team will demonstrate. Non-strategic Elements having Secure Supply Chains A Virginia Commonwealth University led team will. Global R&D). power supply from concentrated solar-thermal power (CSP). Company-Global. Company-Global.

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Teslarati

JULY 26, 2022

We’re just starting to write a new chapter for Volkswagen in America, and it is very much an American story,” Thomas Schäfer, Chairman of the global Volkswagen brand, said. market and globally.”. The EV battery will be supplied by SK Innovation located in Georgia,” VW said. 4, at its factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 11, 2024

Tempe, Arizona-based First Solar’s sixth operational factory expands the company’s global manufacturing footprint to four countries, including the US, Malaysia, and Vietnam. billion manufacturing expansion strategy that has seen it grow from approximately 6 GW operational in 2020 to over 16 GW global nameplate capacity at the end of 2023.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 30, 2021

That pricing may well move the needle on the EQ models as they’re introduced, lending credence to Mercedes’ goals of having 50% of global sales electrified by 2025 and by 2030 having all electric vehicles in its offerings (with its caveat—where market conditions allow). Of course, the door handles move out to greet you.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2015

Toyota is embarking on a multi-year plan to realign its manufacturing operations in North America in support of the Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) ( earlier post ), a comprehensive approach to achieving sustainable growth by making ever-better vehicles more efficiently. 150-million investment in Huntsville, Alabama plant.

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Plug in America

JULY 22, 2024

auto industry globally competitive. The IRA includes significant changes to the clean vehicle tax credits to meet competing goals, including building energy security, accelerating an equitable clean vehicle transition, and developing a domestic supply chain for EVs. As a result, the EV tax credits are complicated.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Lithium in a Smackover Formation could provide nine times the global demand for EV batteries The lithium deposits could be the key to U.S. Even the low-end estimate is equivalent to more than nine times the global demand for lithium use in EV batteries in 2030, as currently estimated by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the USGS notes.

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Plug in America

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Thanks to the Investing in America Agenda, we have seen over $200 billion in private sector investment in new EV and battery manufacturing and supply chain facilities. auto supply chain, there are other jobs necessary to support the transition, including jobs to conduct the design, creation, and maintenance of a nationwide charging network.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

With 65% of the global cobalt supply coming from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, many EVs today don’t meet the new standards. Similarly, the components whose final assembly must happen in the U.S. will rise to 60% in 2024, 70% in 2026, 80% in 2027, 90% in 2028 and 100% in 2029. What Cars Are Eligible for the Tax Credit?

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