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JUNE 9, 2023

Toyota Motor North America, Inc. Toyota) will invest nearly $50 million to construct a new laboratory facility at its North American R&D headquarters in York Township, Mich. to evaluate batteries for electric and electrified vehicles in North America.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 19, 2024

Mexico’s cheapest EV will now be built in North America in SEV’s new plant in Durango SEV, a Mexican brand. continued] The post Another Chinese EV Manufacturer Lands in Mexico: SEV Will Build Its Affordable EVs in Durango appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2023

Statevolt , a battery startup seeking to build hyperlocal gigafactories, has acquired a 135-acre site in Imperial Valley, California, as the location for its 54 GWh Gigafactory. The business will manufacture batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and storage applications using resources and supply chains sourced entirely in the US.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Piedmont holds a 25% ownership stake in the North American Lithium (NAL) mine located in Quebec. It should be noted that NAL is the only lithium mine in North America that’s capable of commercial production this year. “We are pleased to partner with LG Chem to supply lithium resources produced in North America.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2023

Chile-based Ensorcia Metals , a specialist in the extraction and transformation of high purity lithium, will invest €200 million to build a lithium hydroxide conversion plant in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Redwood Materials will build its next Battery Materials Campus just outside of Charleston, South Carolina. 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.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2023

The Volkswagen Group’s battery company PowerCo SE aims to build its largest gigafactory to date in St. Thomas is the company’s first overseas gigafactory for cell manufacturing and will equip the Group brands’ BEVs in the North American region with unified cells, a new cell technology designed for volume production.

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Electrek

AUGUST 31, 2022

Heavy-duty EV manufacturer Lightning eMotors announced Wednesday that it’s strategically partnering with GoBolt, a logistics services provider, to build and deploy 170 all-electric commercial vehicles over the next year.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2021

Siemens will invest and expand the company’s US manufacturing operations to support electric vehicle infrastructure in America. The company will bolster its existing manufacturing footprint of EV infrastructure with the VersiCharge Level 2 AC series product line of commercial and residential EV chargers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

and Oregon-based InSpec Group will commence contract services for the construction of manufacturing plants for secondary batteries, such as lithium-ion batteries, and a range of ancillary facilities. The alliance between TEXMAC and InSpec primarily targets the construction work of secondary battery manufacturing plants.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2022

In August 2021, Nuro announced plans to build a manufacturing facility and test track in southern Nevada. Pre-production is underway now, and Nuro partnering with BYD North America to assemble globally-sourced hardware components for the vehicle platforms.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2023

Joseph County, creating 1,700 manufacturing jobs. GM and Samsung SDI, which announced their joint venture in April, will build the plant just east of New Carlisle at Larrison Boulevard and Indiana 2 to supply GM’s growing EV production needs. Once complete, the plant will have more than 30 GWh of capacity.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2023

Thomas in Ontario, Canada to establish Volkswagen’s first overseas gigafactory for cell manufacturing. The decision to expand the PowerCo cell production ramp-up from Europe to Canada is further evidence of the growth strategy of the Group in North America. More details on gigafactory St.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2021

GM and Vacuumschmelze (VAC) of Germany announced plans for VAC to build a plant in the US that will manufacture permanent magnets for the electric motors used in the GMC HUMMER EV, Cadillac LYRIQ, Chevrolet Silverado EV and more than a dozen other models using GM’s Ultium Platform. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2022

General Motors will invest more than $7 billion in four Michigan manufacturing sites, significantly increasing battery cell and electric truck manufacturing capacity. Orion will be GM’s second assembly plant scheduled to build full-size electric pickups. billion to build Ultium Cells’ third US battery cell manufacturing plant.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2022

Pace is the transportation backbone of Chicago’s suburbs and one of the largest public bus service operators in North America, serving an area nearly the size of the state of Connecticut. Designed and manufactured in the United States, Proterra’s electric transit buses are equipped with the company’s own battery technology systems.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Li-Cycle Holdings, the leading lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, and Vines Energy Solutions ( VinES ), a Vingroup company that specializes in the research, development and manufacturing of advanced batteries for mobility and energy storage applications, launched a global recycling partnership. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2023

US-based advanced materials company Anovion Technologies has selected Decatur County in Southwest Georgia as the location of the company’s first large-scale expansion of manufacturing capacity for production of its premium synthetic graphite anode materials. Anovion plans an initial $800-million investment in the plant. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Toyota will invest an additional $90 million in two of its US manufacturing facilities to boost hybrid transaxle and engine capacity: Toyota West Virginia (TMMWV) – $73 million. Currently, a team of more than 2,000 build approximately one million engines and transmissions annually for many of Toyota’s North American-assembled vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2021

This move represents the next step in the company’s electrification strategy and builds on the competencies and processes initially developed in ATC’s UK facility. These investments will allow ATC to remanufacture batteries and electric drive units for both plug-in hybrid and battery electric vehicles.

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Teslarati

MAY 13, 2024

Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas Director of Manufacturing Engineering Renjie Zhu announced his departure in a LinkedIn post on Monday, after working with the company for five years in Texas and in China. He started at Giga Shanghai in March 2019 to build up the site’s body-in-white (BIW) manufacturing team.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2021

disclosed that FREYR is in negotiations with a major multinational industrial conglomerate (the JV Partner) potentially to develop battery production facilities in North America. 24M) at a battery manufacturing facility in North America. 24M) at a battery manufacturing facility in North America.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2021

Australia-based Lynas Rare Earths Limited entered into an agreement with the US Government to build a commercial Light Rare Earths separation plant in the United States, through a wholly owned subsidiary, Lynas USA LLC. The Texas plant will ensure the US has a secure domestic source of high quality separated Rare Earth materials.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The facility will build on more than a decade of advanced battery development at GM Research and Development. The facility is expected to build its first prototype cells in the fourth quarter of 2022. The Wallace Center will be located on the campus of GM’s Global Technical Center in Warren, Michigan. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2021

General Motors and POSCO Chemical plan to form a joint venture through which the parties will construct a factory in North America to process critical battery materials for GM’s Ultium electric vehicle platform. POSCO Group is building a strong value chain across battery business from raw materials to battery recycling.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 26, 2022

General Motors on Tuesday issued an update on its EV plans, including confirmation of two Michigan sites for EV manufacturing and battery production. Confirming an earlier report, GM said in a press release that will spend $4 billion to convert its Orion Assembly plant in Orion Township, Michigan, to build electric pickup trucks.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2023

SK On, a leading electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturer, signed a joint development agreement (JDA) with US graphite company Westwater Resources (WWR) as part of efforts to strengthen its battery raw material supply chain in North America following the enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2020

With successful delivery of the first XCIENT Fuel Cell trucks, we proudly announce our plan to expand beyond Europe to North America and China where we are already making great progress. The North American market will also get a 6x4 tractor model.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2021

the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, will build its third commercial lithium-ion battery recycling facility, to be located in Gilbert, Arizona, within the Phoenix metropolitan area. Li-Cycle Corp., Earlier post.). —Tim Johnston, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Li-Cycle.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2019

The Neorizon microfactory is intended to build products at unprecedented speeds through the combination of co-creation and cutting-edge technology. Current transport infrastructure and existing mass manufacturing are too inflexible and capital intense to service evolving technology trends and changing consumer demands.

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Electric Driver

AUGUST 6, 2024

Honda electric vehicles represent a significant shift in the company’s portfolio, building on its legacy of innovation and engineering excellence. As of 2024, Honda is preparing to launch its new global EV series, the Honda 0 Series, with plans to introduce the first model in North America by 2026.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2016

BMW Connected, a new personal mobility companion, made its world debut at Microsoft Build 2016, Microsoft’s developer conference, last week. The first version—called BMW Connected North America—is now available at the Apple App Store to BMW ConnectedDrive customers in the US for iOS devices.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2023

million awarded by the Department of Energy to Daimler Trucks North America, headquartered in Portland, and $199 million awarded overall by the DOE to fund 25 projects geared toward putting cleaner cars and trucks on America’s roads and improving the nation’s electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2022

billion) in Queen Creek, Arizona to build a new cylindrical battery plant with a total capacity of 11 GWh. Among Korean battery makers, LG Energy Solutions is the first to build an independent production plant for cylindrical batteries in the North American market. LG Energy Solution will invest 1.7 trillion won (US$1.39

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2022

The investment is intended to further enhance BASF’s CAM production footprint in North America by complementing its existing manufacturing sites. The opportunity for potential future upstream investment integration supports BASF’s strategy to build an integrated, closed-loop battery materials ecosystem in all key regions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2023

Volkswagen continues to expand its design and engineering capabilities as well as grow its leadership team in North America with the addition of the company’s new Chief Engineering Officer, Lyndon Lie.

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Teslarati

MAY 4, 2022

The legacy automaker aims to achieve 10% market share in North America by 2030 as it bolsters expansion in global growth markets. Volkswagen is specifically interested in growing in the United States with plans to build a dedicated battery cell production factory in the country. The German automaker announced a $1.7

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