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Volvo Cars formally inaugurated a new battery assembly line at its Belgian manufacturing plant in Ghent, where it will start building its first fully electric car, the XC40 Recharge P8, later this year. The Ghent plant will provide important learnings to other manufacturing sites in terms of process optimisation and efficiency.
Albemarle Corporation plans to locate its previously announced lithium hydroxide Mega-Flex facility in Chester County, SouthCarolina. billion to help meet the surging demand for domestic and international electric vehicles and lithium-ion batteries. Production at the facility would support the manufacturing of an estimated 2.4
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Redwood Materials will build its next Battery Materials Campus just outside of Charleston, SouthCarolina. At Camp Hall in Berkeley County, Redwood will recycle, refine and manufacture anode and cathode components on more than 600 acres, creating more than 1,500 jobs and investing $3.5 billion in the local community.
has opened its $150-million Florence Recycling Center for automotive batteries in Florence, SouthCarolina. The facility will recycle 132,000 metric tons per year, or the equivalent of more than 14 million lead-acid automotive batteries. More than 98% of the batteries are recycled. Johnson Controls, Inc.
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(AV) to supply, install and support a network of public electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in seven SouthCarolina cities. AeroVironment has been developing, manufacturing and supporting EV charging products for more than a decade. Duke Energy, Santee Cooper and Lockhart Power.
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BMW Manufacturing Co. Installation of a storage and distribution center within BMW’s existing Energy Center, an 11 Megawatt facility, along with six on-site fueling stations were recently completed by BMW at their only North American manufacturing facility in SouthCarolina.
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manufacturing facility. The total investment for the expansion will be more than $260 million for the expansion and new high-tech manufacturing equipment. Bosch has continued to invest in its presence in SouthCarolina. Bosch has begun production of electric motors at its Charleston, S.C. methods to gain more efficiency.
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billion in its US operations, including $1 billion to prepare for the production of electric vehicles at the company’s Plant Spartanburg in SouthCarolina, and $700 million to build a new high-voltage battery assembly facility in nearby Woodruff, SC. The annual capacity of the battery cell factory will be up to 30 GWh.
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