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A look at Tesla’s potential new Gigafactory locations: Mexico, Canada, Indonesia or South Korea

Teslarati

In September, Canada’s Minister of Industry Francois-Philippe Champagne stated that Tesla did discuss the possibility of building a factory in Canada. Earlier this year, Champagne emphasized that Canada hopes to be the auto industry’s new “ supplier of choice.” Tesla South Korea.

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Toyota Cuts EV Goals, Also Gets Billions In Battery Subsidies From Japan

InsideEVs

Also on Critical Materials: More on the German auto industry's "multiple challenges," and South Korea forces EV makers to name names.

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Thomson Reuters report finds established auto industry companies, not Silicon Valley, leading development of autonomous driving tech

Green Car Congress

Established automotive industry companies—not Silicon Valley—are leading the development of autonomous driving technology, according to a new report from the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters. To the contrary, automotive bellwethers are the ones in the driver’s seat.

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“Electric cars are disasters; they are evil," says Hyundai union head

Green Car Reports

Not something you'd hear every day, certainly not from a powerful executive in the auto industry. Yet those are the words of Ha Bu-young, head of the Hyundai motor union, both the largest and the most powerful union in South Korea. “Electric cars are disasters. They are evil."

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ICCT report finds US domestic EV production and investment continues to fall; only 5% of global EV investment to go to US EV assembly plants

Green Car Congress

million in 2020, followed by 450,000 in the US and about 110,000 each in Japan and South Korea. Great promotional events and bold aspirational statements by the domestic auto industry can’t mask the facts. Continuing on this path would hurt the domestic US auto industry’s prospects for decades.

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How and When the Chip Shortage Will End, in 4 Charts

Cars That Think

As Spectrum reported in the months since this story originally posted, the broken supply chains caused by the chip shortage have practically rewired whole segments of the tech industry. industrial concerns from falling victim to similar semiconductor supply chain snafus in the future. In March of 2023, the U.S.

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Elon Musk: Chip shortage is a “short term” problem that will likely be over next year

Teslarati

Just recently, a report from South Korea noted that Tesla key supplier Samsung Electronics has reportedly selected Taylor, TX, as the site of its upcoming $17 billion chip plant that would likely enter operations by Q4 2024.