Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2020

General Motors will begin a systematic orderly suspension of manufacturing operations in North America due to market conditions, to deep clean facilities and continue to protect people. Production status will be reevaluated week-to-week after that. MAP will halt production to March 30. —GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2022

Electrify America entered into a 15-year virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with developer Terra-Gen to build a solar photovoltaic renewable energy generation project in San Bernardino County, California called Electrify America Solar Glow 1. The solar project is targeted to be operational by mid-2023.

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

Volkswagen of America, Inc., The program enables Volkswagen and participating dealers to financially reward dealership technicians with a retention bonus of $2,000 per year, empowering them to gain new individual certifications to enhance their skillsets and build up comprehensive expertise for the ID.4 To date, the ID.4

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JULY 24, 2022

For Umicore this investment represents the final step in establishing a global production presence with battery material value chains that are regionally fully integrated to support its customers in their fast transformation towards sustainable electric mobility.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2021

General Motors and POSCO Chemical plan to form a joint venture through which the parties will construct a factory in North America to process critical battery materials for GM’s Ultium electric vehicle platform. —Doug Parks, GM executive vice president, Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2022

billion over the next five years in the North American region (NAR) (Canada, Mexico, United States) to boost its product portfolio, regional R&D and manufacturing capabilities. Scott Keogh, President and CEO, Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. Volkswagen will commit $7.1 Assembly of the ID.4 Assembly of Volkswagen’s ID.4

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2022

Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) entered into an agreement with the State of Georgia to build its first dedicated full electric vehicle and battery manufacturing facilities in the US. The new facility will break ground in early 2023 and is expected to begin commercial production in the first half of 2025 with an annual capacity of 300,000 units.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Solvay and Orbia have entered into a joint venture framework agreement to create a partnership for the production of suspension-grade polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), creating the largest capacity in North America. Both plants are expected to be fully operational by 2026.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2023

Toyota Motor North America, Inc. to evaluate batteries for electric and electrified vehicles in North America. In addition to working with current battery production, lab engineers will explore new battery configurations for future products.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Hertz has a national footprint of locations across North America suitable for bp pulse to build and manage a network of fast-charging hubs to serve Hertz customers, including taxi and ride sharing drivers, as well as the general public.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2023

In October 2022, Honda announced that it would invest $700 million to retool several of its existing auto and powertrain plants to establish the new EV Hub in Ohio, to prepare for the production of battery electric vehicles in 2026. Following are key next steps involving several of Honda’s US production facilities.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2023

Volvo Trucks leads the market in Europe and in North America for heavy electric trucks after the first quarter of 2023. Now, its electric product range is being made available in new markets in Asia, Latin America and Africa. The group is also investing in a charging corridor in North America.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2023

SK On, a leading electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturer, signed a joint development agreement (JDA) with US graphite company Westwater Resources (WWR) as part of efforts to strengthen its battery raw material supply chain in North America following the enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Jeep will introduce four all-electric SUVs in North America and Europe by the end of 2025. As part of an ongoing comprehensive product plan, 50% of Jeep brand sales in the US will be fully electric by 2030, while 100% of European sales will be all-electric by then. Jeep brand electrified portfolio in North America. Jeep Recon.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2022

PowerCo, the newly founded battery company of the Group, has a central role in these efforts and will drive forward the planned cooperation in the fields of battery value creation, raw materials supply chains and cathode material production in the North American region. Possible production sites are currently being examined.

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AUGUST 18, 2023

billion (US$886 million) to build a cathode manufacturing facility that will provide materials that ultimately supply batteries for Ford’s future electric vehicles. Once production begins in the first half of 2026, the site will have the capacity to produce up to 45,000 tonnes of cathode active material (CAM) per year.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2023

Statevolt , a battery startup seeking to build hyperlocal gigafactories, has acquired a 135-acre site in Imperial Valley, California, as the location for its 54 GWh Gigafactory. At full operating capacity, the Gigafactory will be one of the largest in North America, with capacity to produce batteries for 650,000 electric vehicles a year.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

Our environmental track record and continual efforts to help our customers build more sustainable communities played a major role in our decision to use renewable diesel in our fleet. We absolutely love the renewable nature of this product. Our experience has been positive. There’s no change in engine performance.

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AUGUST 18, 2023

billion to build a cathode manufacturing facility that will provide materials that ultimately supply batteries for Ford’s future electric vehicles. Once production begins in the first half of 2026, the site will have the capacity to produce up to 45,000 tonnes of CAM per year. SK On, EcoProBM and Ford are investing C$1.2

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Leading lead battery recycler Ecobat is building its third lithium-ion battery recycling facility and its first in North America. Ecobat is a leader in the production of lead, lead alloys, and the recycling of lead batteries.

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JUNE 12, 2021

disclosed that FREYR is in negotiations with a major multinational industrial conglomerate (the JV Partner) potentially to develop battery production facilities in North America. 24M) at a battery manufacturing facility in North America. 24M) at a battery manufacturing facility in North America.

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AUGUST 27, 2021

Autonomous delivery company Nuro is investing $40 million to develop two new facilities in southern Nevada—an end-of-line manufacturing facility and a closed-course test track—to commercialize and scale production of the company’s third-generation autonomous vehicle. Both facilities are expected to be fully operational in 2022.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under the proposed alliance, Honda and GM would collaborate on a variety of segments in North America, intending to share common vehicle platforms, including both electrified and internal combustion propulsion systems that align with the vehicle platforms. —Seiji Kuraishi, executive vice president of Honda Motor Co.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2023

GM and Samsung SDI, which announced their joint venture in April, will build the plant just east of New Carlisle at Larrison Boulevard and Indiana 2 to supply GM’s growing EV production needs. GM plans to install more than 1 million units of annual EV capacity in North America in 2025 and accelerate from there.

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APRIL 24, 2023

The Volkswagen Group’s battery company PowerCo SE aims to build its largest gigafactory to date in St. Thomas, Ontario/Canada with an annual production capacity of up to 90 GWh in the final expansion phase. Groundbreaking is planned for 2024 and production is projected to begin in 2027. Thomas in North America.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2023

Rice husk is an agricultural by-product that was not used for tire production until very recently. This will make the Livorno site Europe’s best-in-class silica production site in terms of CO 2 footprint. Production is expected to start by the end of 2024. Continental is a key partner in this.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2021

Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (SCOA), the largest subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation, one of the world’s largest traders of goods and services, has invested in OneH2, a hydrogen fuel company headquartered in Longview, North Carolina. OneH2 is a hydrogen production and distribution company providing fuel primarily for forklifts nationwide.

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Teslarati

JUNE 18, 2024

Workers from General Motors (GM) Lordstown Plant in Ohio ratified a deal between the United Auto Workers (UAW) union and Ultium Cells for the production of electric vehicle (EV) batteries. GM invests $390M in KS for next-gen Chevy Bolt EV production President Biden issued a statement about the agreement.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2023

Combined, these new offerings for North America build upon ABB E-mobility's EV charging technologies which thousands of facilities, public charging sites, fleet operations and transit depots have integrated into their e-mobility operations for more than a decade.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Redwood Materials will build its next Battery Materials Campus just outside of Charleston, South Carolina. Redwood takes in end-of-life batteries, break them down to their basic metals (such as nickel, copper, cobalt, and lithium) and then rebuilds those metals into cathode and anode products. billion in the local community.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2023

Brazil-based Braskem, the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas, as well as a global market leader and pioneer producer of biopolymers on an industrial scale, announced a project to evaluate an investment in producing carbon-negative bio-based polypropylene (PP) in the US. This new U.S-based

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The Tesla CyberBeer + CyberStein limited edition set is now available in North America. Bottle opener too [link] — Tesla North America (@tesla_na) October 12, 2023 The idea of a CyberBeer first took root during Gigafactory Berlin’s Giga Fest event a few years ago. We’re going to build a train station that’s right on the property.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Bosch has begun production of electric motors at its Charleston, S.C. Additionally, the company plans to invest more than $260 million to expand further the production of electrification products at the site, which is expected to create at least 350 net new jobs by 2025. manufacturing facility. methods to gain more efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Volvo Autonomous Solutions and Aurora revealed a prototype of Volvo Trucks’ flagship, long-haul VNL model, integrated with the Aurora Driver technology, representing an important step towards launching fully autonomous Class 8 trucks commercially in North America. —Sasko Cuklev, head of on-road solutions for Volvo Autonomous Solutions.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

Redwood Materials recently posted about its plans to localize battery production in North America, particularly in the United States. The company highlighted that most cathode production facilities are located outside North America, and Redwood Materials aims to change that. Redwood is changing that!

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FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The wave of popularity is building, but there are dark clouds ahead if we don’t take notice. The American spirit of independence and ingenuity will guide us as we build a lithium battery industry that produces raw materials from US reserves so we can supply US battery manufacturers and US consumers for decades to come.

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JUNE 9, 2023

General Motors’ (GM) support for Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) might be trouble for Electrify America. With two out of three of the United States’ top legacy automakers supporting Tesla’s NACS, Electrify America’s position in the EV charging space is precarious at best.

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