Green Car Reports

JULY 13, 2022

The battery maker Panasonic Energy has announced plans to build an electric vehicle battery factory in the Kansas City area. And this plant, which will be Panasonic’s first in the U.S. outside of its Tesla partnership, it claims will be the largest battery plant in the world.

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Teslarati

JULY 13, 2022

Tesla battery supplier Panasonic has reportedly decided to build its next battery plant in Kansas, USA. kai (NHK) or the Japan Broadcasting Corporation published a report stating that Panasonic had shortlisted Kansas and Oklahoma as potential sites for its new battery factory. . Back in March, the Nippon H?s?

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Teslarati

MARCH 3, 2022

Panasonic is reportedly looking at factory sites in either Oklahoma or Kansas. Panasonic has not published a press release about plans to build a battery production facility in the United States. The post Tesla battery partner Panasonic looking to build new factory in Oklahoma or Kansas: report appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

General Motors (GM) has shut down a manufacturing plant in Kansas and laid off the site’s roughly 2,000 workers after the automaker stated plans to do so last week. Tesla only builds EVs, so unlike the “Big 3,” the automaker won’t have to phase out gas car production. “As the past has clearly shown, nobody wins in a strike.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2015

Ford has begun production of the 2015 F-150 ( earlier post ) at Kansas City Assembly Plant, which joins Dearborn Truck Plant in building the first mass-produced light-duty pickup truck with a high-strength, military-grade, aluminum-alloy body. In 2011, Ford announced a $1.1

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Kansas City International Airport and BYD, North America’s largest electric bus manufacturer, announced delivery of the airport’s four battery-electric 30-ft. BYD customized the buses for Kansas City Airport to include luggage racks for passenger use. Kansas City Council approved the order of four 30 ft. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Ford Motor Company confirmed that it will build the full-size Transit van at its Kansas City Assembly Plant when the new product joins its North American lineup in 2013. The current SUV line at the Kansas City facility, which will be idled for re-tooling after the current Escape model is phased out in April, will re-open in 2013.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 11, 2024

A rendering of Panasonic’s upcoming facility in De Soto, Kansas / Source: Panasonic Tesla battery supplier Panasonic Energy is considering pouring new investments potentially up to $4 billion in its De Soto, Kansas, plant to produce 4680 battery cells for the Tesla Cybertruck and Tesla’s next-gen vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2023

Ballard Power Systems received an order for additional fuel cell engines from Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC). —Dr Kyle Mulligan, AVP Operations Technology CPKC is the combination of two historic railways: Canadian Pacific (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS). These eighteen, 200 kW fuel cell engines (3.6

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2022

The e-TRIEVER builds upon the T-Series’ foundation while continuing Orange EV’s commitment to innovation and delivering trucks that meet the demanding needs of heavy-duty, goods movement operations. The e-TRIEVER builds on this platform, while adding next-generation technology. million hours of operation. Motor: Brushless AC induction.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

CHECK OUT: Kansas City Power & Light To Build 1,000 Electric-Car Charging Sites (Jan 2015) A. But efforts are not limited to the Golden State. If one electric utility has its way, more electric cars will soon be plying the roads of America's heartland.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2019

Supported by a new five-year, $500,000- grant from the National Science Foundation, a researcher from the University of Kansas is developing machine learning technology to monitor and prevent overheating in lithium-ion batteries.

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Teslarati

MAY 12, 2024

General Motors (GM) is investing $390 million in Kansas for next-gen Chevy Bolt EV production. It also plans to pause Cadillac XT4 production at its Fairfax Assembly Plant in Kansas City until January 2025. Kansas isn’t the only state GM is investing in for EV production. The battery plant will help GM build Ultium batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2011

Ford Motor Company will build a new vehicle at its Kansas City Assembly Plant in Missouri after Ford Escape production moves to Ford’s Louisville Assembly Plant and retooling of the Kansas City facility is complete. Ford will invest $400 million in the Kansas City plant to install a new body shop, new tooling and other upgrades.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Seattle in 2022 announced plans to install curbside EV chargers by request, while Kansas City and New York City began testing the concept in 2021, with the latter reporting high utilization rates. The post LA is building out 10,000 streetlight EV chargers, under brighter LEDs appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 28, 2015

Kansas City, Missouri, will become the latest municipality to gain an electric-car charging infrastructure this year. A local utility company is leading the effort to build a comprehensive network of charging sites for drivers of plug-in vehicles.

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InsideEVs

JUNE 2, 2023

The Japanese company already operates a factory in Nevada and is building a second facility in Kansas.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 14, 2022

The interview preceded the company's announcement to build the largest battery plant in the world in Kansas City. Panasonic expects to achieve a 20% boost in energy density for EV batteries by 2030, the company's CTO said in an interview with Reuters published Wednesday.

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Electrek

AUGUST 26, 2022

Panasonic just announced that it is building a $4 billion battery cell factory in Kansas to supply Tesla, but we now learn that the Japanese company is considering greenlighting another large-scale US battery cell factory to build simultaneously.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Battery production will also be on-site, as the automaker partnered with LG Energy Solutions to build a new facility expected to open later in 2025. Hyundai CEO Jose Munoz said the company would build hybrids at the facility, as the automaker was one of several to soften plans to go all-electric. Images: Hyundai] Become a TTAC insider.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

GM is retiring another gas-powered car at its Kansas plant to clear room for the next-gen Chevy Bolt EV. GM already announced plans in May to retire the Chevy Malibu to make room at its Kansas plant for next-gen EVs, including the Bolt. The report claims GM will now only build Bolt models on the assembly line.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 15, 2021

By Gabrielle Habeeb & Ashok Gupta Eliminating carbon emissions from our building and transportation sectors will be critical to maintaining a healthy and livable climate. Originally published on the NRDC Expert Blog.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2022

Amazon has begun deploying its custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian for package delivery, with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2021

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $26 million to build infrastructure to expand the availability of higher-blend renewable biofuels by 822 million gallons annually in 23 states. USDA is making the awards under the Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2019

HollyFrontier owns and operates refineries located in Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wyoming and Utah and markets its refined products principally in the Southwest US, the Rocky Mountains extending into the Pacific Northwest and in other neighboring Plains states. —Franklin Myers, Chairman of the Board of HollyFrontier.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 28, 2015

Today we witness the latest Toyota attack on electric cars, the first television ad for the 2016 Chevrolet Volt, and a new project in Kansas City encompassing 1,000 electric-car charging sites. Kansas City Power & Light will build 1,000 electric-car charging sites in collaboration with ChargePoint and.'

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

GM has announced it will end production of the Cadillac XT4 early next year in a shift towards EVs, namely the next-gen Chevy Bolt, at its Fairfax plant in Kansas. Those of you with long memories may recall the company said earlier this year it would build the XT4 and new Bolt on the same assembly line. This wasn’t the original plan.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 22, 2024

location at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada, and the manufacturer is building a second site in Kansas. In addition, the company is looking to increase its annual EV battery production capacity to 200 GWh by early 2031, with the upcoming Kansas plant expected to bring annual capacity up to around 80 GWh.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2015

will construct new compressed natural gas (CNG) stations for Arlington Transit (ART) in Arlington County, Virginia; Nassau Inter-County Express (NICE) in Long Island, NY; and North Kansas City (MO) School District, which is set to become the largest school district in the US to transition its school bus fleet to CNG. Clean Energy Fuels Corp.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 25, 2024

“it’s gonna happen, but I don’t I don’t know if it’ll happen in your lifetime and mine,” says Ron Barrett-Gonzalez , an aerospace engineering professor at the University of Kansas. The University of Kansas team’s GoFly entry, called Mamba , had been one of 10 Phase I winners for best design. million machine.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2023

The Postal Service plans to begin building out its charging infrastructure across a minimum of 75 locations within the next 12 months, and thereafter to continue the infrastructure build out in the succeeding years at many additional facilities as a part of its delivery vehicle electrification strategy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2009

Smith Electric Vehicles US Corporation ( SEV US ) has selected Kansas City as the site for its US assembly plant. The new assembly plant will be located at a portion of an airline overhaul base at Kansas City International (KCI) Airport and is expected to create 120 jobs by 2010. The SEV US Newton. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Teslarati

JUNE 5, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act’s EV credits for domestic cell production have encouraged more automakers and foreign battery suppliers to build battery plants in the United States. The Japanese battery supplier already selected Kansas as the site for a 4680 plant. Panasonic shifted its plans for the Kansas facility.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Increasingly, the US is splitting into two camps when it comes to EV adoption: those states who’ve been aggressive about offering incentives and building infrastructure to support EVs and those that have not. What’s underneath that nationwide score, however, is significant variation on a state-by-state basis.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 15, 2024

To do this, it will build a new factory in Kansas that will produce the 2170 cells in a $4 billion effort. ” Oklahoma was in the running , but Panasonic turned down $700 million in state incentives to build the new plant there, it said in December 2023. Panasonic wants to increase production output by roughly 10 percent.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Ford’s Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan today makes America’s best selling vehicle—the Ford F-150—and started Ford’s industry-leading closed-loop aluminum recycling innovation ( earlier post ), which was then expanded to other F-150 manufacturing facilities including Dearborn Stamping, Kansas City Truck and Buffalo Stamping.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The US Departments of Transportation and Energy announced nearly $5 billion that will be made available under the new National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program to build out a national electric vehicle charging network. 29,315,442. 19,978,342. 21,998,178. 14,743,125. 10,280,470. 10,859,512. Massachusetts. 16,290,764.

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