Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2020

As the Volkswagen Chattanooga factory ramps up production of the new Atlas Cross Sport, and lays groundwork for assembling the next generation of Volkswagen electric vehicles planned to begin in 2022, engineers are using augmented reality (AR) goggles to design production lines and help spot potential issues.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Tesla builds its three different electric models in Fremont, California; the new 2018 Nissan Leaf has just gone into production in Smyrna, Tennessee; and the Chevrolet Bolt EV is built at the Orion Assembly Plant in Michigan. Ford also builds.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2023

The campus, to be renamed Oakville Electric Vehicle Complex, will begin to retool and modernize in the second quarter of 2024 to prepare for production of next-generation EVs. The current 487-acre Oakville site includes three body shops, one paint building, one assembly building. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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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.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

billion to build the country’s first automaker-backed LFP battery plant, offering customers a second battery technology within Ford’s EV lineup. Ford is now commited to build both nickel cobalt manganese (NCM) and lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries in the US. Ford will invest $3.5 With this $3.5-billion

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 20, 2021

4 electric car has rolled off the production line at the automaker's Chattanooga, Tennessee, factory, VW Group of America CEO Scott Keogh announced Thursday in a LinkedIn post. Mass production doesn't start until next year, however. Finished in Glacier White Metallic, the first completed car is a validation build used to.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In an effort to increase sales, localize production and expand electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the United States, Tritium DCFC Limited announced plans for expansion of its US footprint with a new manufacturing facility in Lebanon, Tennessee.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2023

We will showcase the unique versatility and wide range of applications of the Xe-100 advanced small modular nuclear reactor for energy production and manufacturing. This project will serve as a model for how we can decarbonize processes to create the products relied upon by people all over the world.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2021

billion to build its second battery cell manufacturing plant in the United States. The facility will be located in Spring Hill, Tennessee. Early conceptual rendering of Ultium Cells LLC battery cell manufacturing facility in Spring Hill, Tennessee. Ultium Cells will build the new plant on land leased from GM.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2022

Ford Motor Company plans to raise production of the F-150 Lightning pickup at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn to 150,000 trucks per year to meet high demand, Beginning Thursday, the first group of reservation holders will be invited to place their orders for the F-150 Lightning. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The company has begun construction on green hydrogen production facilities in California, New York, Tennessee and Georgia that will ultimately supply 500 tons per day of liquid green hydrogen by 2025. Developing hydrogen-related infrastructure to support the build-out of the hydrogen value chain.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2021

This dedicated EV architecture and propulsion system is the foundation for GM’s all-electric future, giving the company the capability not only to build an entire retail and commercial portfolio, but also leverage the technology to expand its business to non-automotive applications.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2012

A group at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), led by Dr. Charles Perry, who holds the Russell Chair of Manufacturing Excellence, has developed and demonstrated a proof-of-concept for a wheel motor plug-in hybrid retrofit kit for almost any car. The production version pack will be smaller, Perry suggests. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2015

IACMI is dedicated to overcoming these barriers by developing low-cost, high-production, energy-efficient manufacturing and recycling processes for composites applications. In the wind energy industry, advances in low-cost composite materials will help manufacturers build longer, lighter and stronger blades to create more energy.

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Teslarati

JULY 15, 2024

Ford’s BlueOval SK electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in Tennessee is ready to start trial operations next month. The BlueOval SK plant in Tennessee is part of a $11.4 The South Korean company aims to build a battery facility in Georgia with a production capacity of 35 GWh.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 5, 2017

That availability came in an announcement that the second-generation electric car officially went into production the same day at Nissan's sprawling assembly plant in Smyrna, Tennessee. It's one of three locations globally that will build.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2021

Plug Power plans to build a green hydrogen production plant in Camden County, Georgia, to serve customers across the southeastern United States.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2023

Building on his leadership experience at General Motors and Nikola Corporation, Lie will oversee the development of future Volkswagen vehicles for the North American market, as well as research and development priorities across North America.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2019

The new investments include adding Toyota RAV4 Hybrid and Lexus ES 300 Hybrid vehicle production at its Georgetown, Ky. and a building expansion for additional castings at Bodine Aluminum's Jackson, Tenn. The investment also includes a building expansion. Bodine will add 13 new jobs to its facility in Tennessee.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2021

NOVONIX’s anode materials business is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where it is increasing capacity to produce 10,000 metric tons per year of synthetic graphite by 2023. This investment is driven by Phillips 66’s Emerging Energy organization, which is tasked with building a lower-carbon business platform.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2010

When fully operational, the vehicle assembly plant will have the capacity to build 150,000 Nissan LEAF electric cars per year, and the new plant will have an annual capacity of 200,000 battery packs. The DOE has also signed a conditional commitment with Fisker Automotive to build plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2023

Lithium Americas estimates the lithium extracted and processed from the project can support production of up to 1 million EVs per year. —GM Chair and CEO Mary Barra The agreement with GM is a major milestone in moving Thacker Pass toward production, while setting a foundation for the separation of our U.S.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Our work with POSCO Chemical is a key part of our strategy to rapidly scale US EV production and drive innovation in battery performance, quality and cost. We are building a sustainable and resilient North America-focused supply chain for EVs covering the entire ecosystem from raw materials to battery cell manufacturing and recycling.

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Electric Cars Report

MARCH 24, 2023

The electric vehicle and battery manufacturing campus in West Tennessee begins production in 2025, and will be home to Ford’s second-generation electric […] The post Ford To Build Next Electric Truck – ‘Project T3’ – At BlueOval City appeared first on Electric Cars Report. Ford, the No. 2 EV brand in the U.S.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Volkswagen is investing in additional automation at factories that will build the ID.4 4 electric crossover and the production model that follows the ID Buzz electric-van concept—two models destined for the United States.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2009

In conjunction with the opening of its new, environmentally-focused global headquarters building in Yokohama, Japan, Nissan Motor Co., unveiled the Nissan LEAF production electric vehicle. Masato Inoue, Product Chief Designer. The Nissan LEAF. Click to enlarge. And that’s what we’ve created.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced approximately $64 million in Fiscal Year 2020 funding for 18 projects that will support the H2@Scale vision for affordable hydrogen production, storage, distribution, and use. University of Tennessee: Knoxville. Nikola Corporation. Advanced Membrane and MEA for HD Fuel Cell Trucks.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2009

plans to begin production of electric vehicles, including their batteries, with an eye on tapping US government funding. Plans call for new electric-car assembly lines to be built at a plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, the location of Nissan North America Inc.’s The Nikkei reports that Nissan Motor Co. s headquarters.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2023

The utilization of X-energy’s fourth generation nuclear technology will enable Dow to take a major step in reducing our carbon emissions while delivering lower carbon footprint products to our customers and society. X-energy was selected by DOE in 2020 to receive up to $1.2

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2023

The plant will produce sustainable unified cells, with start of production planned for 2027. 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. In addition to its ramped-up assembly of the all-electric ID.4

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

billion in Tennessee and Kentucky for its electric vehicle production line. With the investments, Ford Motor Company plans to build environmentally and technologically advanced campuses in Tennessee (TN) and Kentucky (KY). Ford plans to build a $5.6 Ford announced its plans to invest $11.4

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

This investment comes on the heels of the $240-million investment announced in November and will increase hybrid transaxle production capacity to 600,000 units per year. 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

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The first of SK On’s two plants in Georgia began mass production of EV batteries earlier this year, while the second one is expected to be operational in 2023. BlueOval SK, the joint venture between SK On and Ford Motor Company, is building three plants in the US —one in Tennessee and two others in Kentucky.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Building on this progress, the new projects will help further reduce the cost of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, expand fueling infrastructure and build a strong domestic supply chain in the United States. Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Air Products, Altergy Systems, Burns & McDonnell Engineering Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2023

The South Korean battery maker is also building three EV battery plants in the US with Ford Motor Co. BlueOval SK, the joint venture between SK On and Ford, plans to operate two battery plants in Glendale, Kentucky, and one factory in Stanton, Tennessee. SK On currently operates two EV battery plants in Commerce, Georgia.

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InsideEVs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The company will build its largest auto production complex and a total of three battery gigafactories (with SK Innovation).

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InsideEVs

JUNE 9, 2022

Lithium-ion battery production is expected to start in Q4 2023.

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