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Build Back Better Offers Big Economic Benefits In Illinois

CleanTechnica EVs

Springfield, Illinois — A new NRDC analysis shows that the Build Back Better agenda, as it currently stands, has the potential to significantly accelerate clean energy investment, economic activity, and job growth in Illinois.

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Rivian’s Normal, Il plant to deliver vehicles charged with on-site wind turbine

Teslarati

Rivian R1 vehicles coming from the company’s Normal, Il plant will soon be delivered to customers with a battery fully charged from wind energy. This is due to the company’s plans to build a large-scale wind turbine at its Normal site. “To us, our job isn’t done when our vehicles come off the line.

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How to Build EV Motors Without Rare Earth Elements

Cars That Think

The group also includes Sandia National Laboratories , Purdue University , and the Illinois Institute of Technology.With all of this activity, you would think that engineers would have by now developed a sophisticated understanding of what is possible with rare earth–free electric motors. Department of Energy’s U.S.

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UAW Warns Dodge Durango Assembly May Leave U.S.

The Truth About Cars

In our 2023 contract, we won major gains, including a commitment to reopen an idled assembly plant in Belvidere, Illinois, and to build the Dodge Durango in Detroit. UAW members generate that profit and build the product that keeps this company running. Now, Stellantis wants to go back on the deal.

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Rivian is looking to produce 1 million vehicles annually by the end of the decade

Teslarati

As per CEO RJ Scaringe in an interview ahead of the company’s market debut on the Nasdaq, Rivian is planning to build at least one million vehicles annually by the end of 2030. Rivian may only be starting its initial production activities, but the company has already announced some of its ambitious goals for the end of the decade.

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President Obama announces two new public-private manufacturing innovation institutes; new manufacturing innovation institute competition

Green Car Congress

Obama also launched a competition for a new manufacturing innovation institute to build US strength in manufacturing advanced composites, the first of four new competitions to be launched this year. Lightweight And Modern Metals Manufacturing. UTRC; Wolf Robotics. Digital Manufacturing And Design Innovation. Boeing; Caron Engineering Inc.;

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Profiteering Hampers U.S. Grid Expansion

Cars That Think

The United States is not building enough transmission lines to connect regional power networks. Building more transmission increases the capacity and connectivity of the system, allowing new power plants to connect and more power to flow between transmission networks. The cost of the project, estimated at US $1.9

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