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MAN accelerating production of heavy-duty e-trucks, presents near-production prototype

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MAN Truck & Bus is accelerating the production of heavy-duty e-trucks in Munich to as early as the beginning of 2024 with prompt delivery of an initial 200 units. MAN began building up its own expertise in the assembly of battery packs as early as spring 2021. This is almost a year earlier than originally planned.

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Tesla announces 100 millionth 4680 battery cell production milestone

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Each Cybertruck is equipped with 1,344 4680 cells , so such an average output would translate to a production capacity of about 368 Cybertrucks a day, or 2,578 per week. Congrats 4680 Cell Manufacturing team on building their 50 millionth battery cell at Giga Texas! Tesla just reached 100 million 4680 cells produced!

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Conversion of Volkswagen Emden plant for EV production underway

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Volkswagen has begun conversion of its Emden, Germany plant to support the production of Evs; the first electric cars are to roll off the production line there from 2022. With the conversion of our plant at Emden into a production location for electric vehicles, Volkswagen is forcing the pace of system change.

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Volkswagen begins production of ID.3 EV in Dresden; 2nd ID.3 site, 4th for MEB

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Volkswagen’s Transparent Factory in Dresden has begun series production of the battery-electric ID.3. This makes it the second production site for the ID.3 family—from initial advice and test drives, to production visits, co-constructing the ID.3 3 and modern event formats, up to the handover of electric vehicles.

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Tesla Robotaxi unveiling event pushed back from August: report

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Tesla’s Robotaxi unveiling event, which was set for August 8, is rumored to have been pushed back to October, according to a new report. The event was set to release what was going to be Tesla’s next groundbreaking product. However, Tesla is not quite ready to roll out the Robotaxi prototypes.

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Daimler, partners building next-gen additive manufacturing process pilot production line for spare parts

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NextGenAM partners Premium AEROTEC, EOS and Daimler are building a pilot production line for a next-generation automated additive manufacturing (AM) process. A driverless transport system and robots ensure the smooth movement of the parts through every stage of the production line. —Dr Adrian Keppler, CEO of EOS.

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Tesla Cybertruck production at Giga Texas is slowly ramping up

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Tesla Cybertruck production at Giga Texas is slowly ramping up, according to new images from outside the factory. Tesla order configurator revealed for ‘Foundation Series’ Cybertruck The biggest bottleneck in terms of production of the Cybertruck for Tesla will be adapting to a new process for such a unique and unorthodox truck.

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