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APRIL 14, 2009

The National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries (NAATBatt) ( earlier post ) has selected a site in Hardin County, Kentucky to build a more than $600-million automotive lithium-ion battery plant. Kentucky was selected over Texas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. Earlier post.).

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The United Auto Workers (UAW) launched an unexpected strike against Ford Motor Company, targeting its extremely important truck works in Kentucky. Ford’s Kentucky Truck Assembly, located in Louisville, is responsible for Ford Super Duty pickups, the Ford Expedition and the Lincoln Navigator.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2012

John Hickenlooper announced that he and 12 other governors sent a letter to the CEOs of 19 auto companies encouraging them to manufacture vehicles that use natural gas. This letter is part of a multi-state agreement initiated last fall by Hickenlooper and Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin to promote the use of natural gas as a transportation fuel.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The United Automotive Workers (UAW) have come to a tentative local agreement at a Ford factory in Kentucky, after the union threatened to put the site’s almost 9,000 workers on strike last week if a deal wasn’t reached. The post Ford and UAW reached a tentative local agreement at Kentucky plant appeared first on TESLARATI.

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InsideEVs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The company will build its largest auto production complex and a total of three battery gigafactories (with SK Innovation).

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AUGUST 8, 2012

We want auto manufacturers to know that states mean business and are strongly committed to the use of CNG vehicles in state fleets so more vehicles can become available to consumers. The objective behind our efforts is simple. —Gov.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In addition to the F-150 Lightning, F-150 and Super Duty trucks, Constellium also currently supplies aluminum components and Auto Body Sheet for several Ford and Lincoln models.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2018

In 2017, Aleris opened a new state-of-the-art auto body sheet production capacity at its Lewisport, Kentucky facility. The $400-million facility equipped the site with the additional heat treatment and finishing capabilities required for the production of wide aluminum auto body sheet.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 24, 2022

For comparison, Toyota’s plant in Georgetown, Kentucky built 8,427 cars per week, BMW’s facility in South Carolina managed 8,343 units per week, and Ford’s Dearborn, Michigan hub managed just 5,564 vehicles weekly. The post Tesla’s Fremont Factory was the most productive auto factory in the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

billion to Ford Motor Company to transform factories across Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio to produce more fuel efficient models. The Department plans to make additional loans under this program over the next several months to large and small auto manufacturers and parts suppliers up and down the production chain.

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MARCH 16, 2013

Loans awarded were: Ford Motor Company, $5.907 billion, Sep 2009: to upgrade factories across Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio and to introduce new technologies to raise the fuel efficiency of more than a dozen popular vehicles. DOE has made five loans worth $8.4 billion and used $3.3

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JULY 16, 2020

The Auto Glide Control (AGC) feature helps to enhance fuel efficiency by calculating efficient coasting logic. The Camry AWD is a North America-only model developed in the US and assembled exclusively at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky. AGC can be activated only when the vehicle is being operated in the ECO drive mode.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 12, 2024

With another nearly $1 billion in funding for its Kentucky plant, Toyota is gearing up to build its first three-row electric SUV in the US. Toyota invests $1 billion in Kentucky ahead of 3-row SUV Toyota is investing another $922 million to build a new paint shop at its Georgetown, Kentucky plant. Thursdays news follows the $1.3

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AUGUST 19, 2021

Additional standard features include Forward Collision Warning, Post Collision Braking, Distance Alert, Dynamic Brake Support, Pedestrian Detection, Auto Hold, hill start assist, automatic headlamps, Voice-Activated Touchscreen Navigation and Phone As A Key.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2019

Ford has revealed the 2020 Escape; the small SUV will make its first public appearance at the New York International Auto Show. This means: In Auto EV mode, the vehicle decides whether to run on gas or electric power. Using a 240-volt Level 2 charge, charge time drops to roughly 3.5 Vehicles are due to reach showrooms this fall.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

In Auto EV mode, the vehicle decides whether to run on gas or electric power. The new Escape SUV is assembled at the Louisville Assembly Plant in Kentucky, available to order now, and will reach dealerships early in 2023. Using a 240-volt Level 2 charge, charge time drops to roughly 3.5 Other available amenities include a 12.3-inch

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JULY 23, 2014

The last tenant of the 107,000-square-foot property was Mexican Industries, which made plastic moldings for the auto industry until filing for bankruptcy in 2001. The ALMMII facility will be located at 1400 Rosa Parks Boulevard in Detroit. Operations at ALMMII will begin with an initial staff of 10.

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JANUARY 5, 2022

Ford is building the largest, most advanced, most efficient auto production facility in its 118-year history in Tennessee, where it will assemble next-generation F-Series electric pickups. Earlier post.).

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 9, 2024

We’ve gone now [two-and-a-half] years of pretty historic increases in auto insurance premiums,” said Stephen Crewdson, senior director of insurance business intelligence at J.D. If you’re wondering why fewer people are bothering to purchase auto insurance in the 2020s, there’s no singular reason.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 1, 2024

Kentucky State Capitol. Photo by Mobilus in Mobili on Flickr As of January 1st, Kentucky has implemented not one but two new taxes on electric vehicles, both of which are individually higher than what gas vehicles pay on similar units of energy. cents, compared to a current average gas price of $2.78 per gallon in the state).

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

Iconic school bus OEM Blue Bird has delivered 23 electric school buses to Carter County Schools in Kentucky, which operates 11 schools serving some 4,200 students. Carter County Schools purchased the electric bus through Blue Bird’s authorized dealer Central States Bus Sales in Lexington, Kentucky.

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Baua Electric

MAY 14, 2024

Usually this sort of cognitive dissonance is considered a bad thing, but in Toyota ’s case it may be otherwise—the company’s leaders have long been the auto industry’s most prominent anti-EV voices, even as the company itself has quietly but steadily prepared for the electric future. Case in point: Toyota recently announced $1.4

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

Sila Nanotechnologies , Auto Scale Silicon Anode Plant, $100,000,000. Ascend Elements will plan, design, and construct a cathode active materials (CAM) plant at a greenfield site in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and install all manufacturing equipment.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Hurricane Helene, which devastated parts of Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee and even Kentucky, is looking like one of those events. It could affect auto dealerships, which typically hold a higher level of expensive assets than homeowners, Hoffman said. billion in losses for property owners.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Ford Motor Company and its financing subsidiary, Ford Motor Credit Company, introduced the North America auto industry’s first sustainable financing framework, focusing on and paying for ambitious plans in vehicle electrification and other environmental and social areas.

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Baua Electric

MAY 31, 2023

made electrical car in Kentucky origination in 2025, the automaker mentioned Wednesday. plant, Toyota Kentucky, and our newest plant, Toyota North Carolina, drive us into the future together with BEV and battery production for our expanding electrified lineup,” Toyota Motor North The usa CEO Ted Ogawa mentioned in a commentary. .

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Vision Motor Cars , of Williamsburg, Kentucky, has submitted five year’s worth of purchase orders worth $348 million for its new line of all-electric drive delivery vans, mini-vans and sports cars. Earlier post.). —VMT Managing Partner Mark Stoddard.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 26, 2024

Yesterday, the Japanese auto giant said it would build a new EV at its Princeton, Indiana facility and noted that it would inject $1.4 billion drop into its Kentucky plant, where production of a new EV is expected to start next year. billion drop into its Kentucky plant, where production of a new EV is expected to start next year.

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MAY 9, 2019

Researchers from the University of Kentucky and the San Francisco County Transportation Authority have determined that, contrary to the concept and vision, transportation network companies such as Uber and Lyft are the biggest contributor to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco.

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

Sila Nanotechnologies , Auto Scale Silicon Anode Plant, $100,000,000. Ascend Elements will plan, design, and construct a cathode active materials (CAM) plant at a greenfield site in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and install all manufacturing equipment.

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JUNE 20, 2017

Ford also announced a $900-million investment in Kentucky Truck Plant for plant upgrades to build the all-new Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator, which begin arriving in dealerships this fall. Ford is a top auto exporter in the US. The $900-million investment secures 1,000 jobs for hourly workers at the Louisville plant.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Auto-braking to stop the electric motor that matches an operator’s walking speed up to 3 mph. BrightDrop and Kroger completed an initial pilot program in Lexington and Versailles, Kentucky. Propulsion-assistance to move up to 350 pounds of groceries, helping reduce physical strain on the labor force.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 1, 2023

The post Toyota will assemble Subaru 3-row EV in Kentucky, resources say appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News. Toyota plans to let go 10 EV fashions globally through 2026 and has mentioned it will make investments greater than $37 billion in EV building and manufacturing thru decade’s finish.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2017

one on which you are less likely to have an accident—to assessing auto damage from a fender bender with a smartphone camera. The Solaria Labs developer portal will aggregate public data on auto theft, parking citations as well as crashes using proprietary insurance knowledge.

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Electric Auto Association

MAY 1, 2022

Electric Auto Association San Joaquin Valley’s DEED event in Manteca, CA. Dave Atherton, President of Electric Auto Association San Joaquin Valley in California agreed with Hankins. “I “It’s important that the younger generation understands the benefits of driving emission-free. Now, they all want one!”.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 29, 2024

The new funding will be used to advance construction of the company’s Apex 1 plant in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Source: Ascend Elements The post Ascend Elements raises $162 million for Kentucky plant to create cathode materials from recycled batteries – Charged EVs appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Workers represented by the United Auto Workers (UAW) have been striking against the Big Three (Ford, General Motors (GM) and Stellantis) for over a month now, and layoffs due to supply chain disruptions have also been ongoing. The UAW’s strikes earlier this month targeted the Kentucky factory, resulting in a walkout of around 9,000 workers.

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