Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ford plans to make the largest US investment in electric vehicles at one time by any automotive manufacturer so far and, together with its partner, SK Innovation, plans to invest $11.4 In central Kentucky, Ford plans to build a dedicated battery manufacturing complex with SK Innovation—the $5.8-billion An all-new $5.6-billion

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Electrek

JUNE 6, 2022

EV-scale solid-state battery cells have come one step closer to reality in Louisville, Colorado, where Solid Power announced it will begin pilot manufacturing of solid-state cells.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Ford’s Kentucky Truck Assembly, located in Louisville, is responsible for Ford Super Duty pickups, the Ford Expedition and the Lincoln Navigator. Todd Dunn, the president of the relevant UAW Local 862, told the Louisville Courier-Journal that Ford stands to lose $30 million per day in profits if the truck plant remains closed.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2014

America Makes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII), recently announced the awardees of its second call for additive manufacturing (AM) applied research and development projects from its members. million in matching cost share from the awarded project teams for total funding worth $19.3 Stratasys, Ltd.;

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2016

The Transit Authority of River City (TARC), serving the Greater Louisville area, has begun adding six new all-electric Proterra buses along the Fourth Street corridor between downtown and Iroquois Park, stopping at some of the city’s most popular destinations. Louisville Metro contributed $500,000.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

At an event in Washington, President Obama announced that the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (SMLC) will lead the new Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute, in partnership with the Department of Energy. The Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute is the ninth manufacturing hub awarded by the Obama Administration.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The new Escape SUV is assembled at the Louisville Assembly Plant in Kentucky, available to order now, and will reach dealerships early in 2023. Other available amenities include a 12.3-inch inch digital instrument panel cluster, Rear Parking Sensors, 360-degree camera3 and a wireless charging pad.

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Teslarati

MARCH 28, 2024

Ford is cutting its F-150 Lightning production workforce by two-thirds as the company continues to try and ramp manufacturing of electric vehicles and work toward profitability. The new F-150 Lightning units were held for a quality review. “Their intentions were to build 180,000-plus units.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2014

As the only manufacturer with EV transit buses in revenue service in the United States, Proterra also announced that its buses had logged more than 340,000 miles (547,000 km) in revenue service to date.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Ford is embracing the use of “3D printing”—additive manufacturing—in its design work. liter EcoBoost engine in the all-new Transit Van (earlier post) were developed with the aid of 3D rapid manufacturing. Escape: EcoBoost four-cylinder engines in the 2013 Escape built at Louisville Assembly Plant.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Louisville, Colo. Touchstone Research Laboratory, Triadelphia, W. Tustin, Calif.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2013

and Louisville Assembly Plant, Louisville, Ky. Locations with 3-Wet capability in Asia Pacific include Chennai Assembly, Tamil Nadu, India; CAF 2, Chongqing, China; and Ford Thailand Manufacturing, Rayong, Thailand. The only current location with 3-Wet capability in Europe is Craiova Assembly Plant, Craiova, Romania.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Unionized Ford workers in Louisville, Kentucky, and General Motors employees from Spring Hill, Tennessee, have voted no on the contract agreement reached by the United Auto Workers. & On Monday, production workers at the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant and Louisville Assembly Plant voted against the tentative agreement.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Earlier this month, the UAW threatened to launch a strike at Ford’s most profitable manufacturing facility, the Kentucky Truck Plant , if an agreement wasn’t reached by February 23. “Our reliance on the UAW turned out to be we were the first truck plant to be shut down,” Farley said (via CBS News ).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2017

Consolidated Metco, a leading global supplier of components to the commercial vehicle market, and Protean Electric, the manufacturer of ProteanDRIVE in-wheel motors, are partnering to develop an electric in-wheel drive system to provide hybrid-electric solutions for the medium and heavy-duty commercial vehicle markets.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2017

Ford announced a series of global manufacturing actions centered on improving the company’s operational fitness, among them that it would source the next-generation Ford Focus for North America primarily from China, rather than Hermosillo, Mexico. The $900-million investment secures 1,000 jobs for hourly workers at the Louisville plant.

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Teslarati

MAY 6, 2022

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co (CATL) said in March 2021 that it would invest $5 billion into potential electric vehicle battery cell manufacturing sites in North America. The reports follow CATL’s plans to spend $5 billion in North America to establish a massive cell plant capable of manufacturing 80 gigawatt-hours annually.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2012

Engineered at the new Westport technical center in Plymouth Michigan, WiNG Power Systems will be installed at the Westport manufacturing facility adjacent to the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant, in Louisville.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 25, 2023

The union this day is retaining apply pickets with employees in Detroit and Louisville, Ky. In 2019, the union struck GM for 40 days, inflicting manufacturing shutdowns that reverberated with sellers and providers stuck within the crossfire.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2015

That year, 14,439 EcoBoost engines were manufactured. The 2-millionth EcoBoost engine rolled off the line at Louisville in October 2013. EcoBoost was launched in 2009 on Ford Taurus SHO with the 3.5-liter liter EcoBoost V6. In 2010, the first full year of EcoBoost production, 62,704 vehicles with the technology were built.

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Cars That Think

MAY 10, 2024

In one recent step forward for Orbital Reef, Sierra Space, headquartered in Louisville, Colorado, performed an Ultimate Burst Pressure (UBP) test on its architecture in January. Such initiatives could face politically-constructed hurdles, however.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

of Louisville, Colo., ORNL’s proof-of-concept battery research has demonstrated the technology’s potential to improve power, operating temperature, manufacturability and cost as well. Solid Power plans to bring the technology to market using a simple battery cell architecture that leverages industry standard manufacturing processes.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The Kentucky Multi-scale Manufacturing and Nano Integration Node, University of Louisville with partner University of Kentucky, PI: Kevin Walsh. Nanotechnology Collaborative Infrastructure Southwest, Arizona State University with partners Maricopa County Community College District and Science Foundation Arizona, PI: Trevor Thornton.

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Electrek

OCTOBER 28, 2024

as Ford and LG ink a deal to bring EV battery manufacturing back to Michigan, the city of Louisville gets the nation’s first all-electric garbage truck fleet, and Waymo gets a massive $5.6 Today’s episode of Quick Charge is a story of, “Thanks, Joe Biden!” billion cash injection.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 30, 2023

GM’s last facility to see a walkout was the incredibly important Spring Hill Manufacturing located in Tennessee. billion for Louisville Assembly (with some slated for new EVs and hybrid models of existing cars); $1 billion in Kansas City Assembly; and $900 million set aside to maintain localized F-Series production.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2019

The all-new Escape, available in S, SE, SE Sport, SEL and Titanium series trim levels, is built at Louisville Assembly Plant in Kentucky. For the 2005 model year, Ford became the first US manufacturer to offer a hybrid when it introduced the Escape Hybrid, the world’s first-ever hybrid SUV. History of Escape.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 28, 2024

as Ford and LG ink a deal to bring EV battery manufacturing back to Michigan, the city of Louisville gets the nation’s first all-electric garbage truck fleet, and Waymo gets a massive $5.6 The post Louisville goes electric, Waymo gets $5B, Ford brings production to Michigan appeared first on Bauaelectric EV News.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 26, 2021

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2015

A 3D-printed version of SABIC’s aerodynamically-optimized roof fairing is on display at the Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS) in Louisville, Kentucky from 26-28 March. SABIC is planning to corroborate its CFD findings with wind tunnel and on-road testing of functional prototypes on a commercial vehicle later this summer.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2011

The new product, designed to complement batteries, was first displayed in March at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, KY. Maxwell developed the engine start module incorporating its patented ultracapacitor technology in consultation with heavy truck manufacturers and fleet operators.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Last week 8,700 union members walked out at the largest and most profitable Ford plant in the world , the Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville. The company is near an impasse with the United Auto Workers union, which walked out in targeted strikes at all three Detroit automakers on Sept. billion in 2022 and is projected to lose nearly $4.5

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2009

These are the first conditional loan commitments reached as part of the Department of Energy’s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program. The Department plans to make additional loans under this program over the next several months to large and small auto manufacturers and parts suppliers up and down the production chain.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 6, 2021

Soft Robotics ] MIT faculty and staff reimagine an iconic mechanical engineering class - 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I) - so students can go head-to-head in the final robot competition from their dorm rooms, apartments, or homes across the country. Walker X had me at back massage. Ubtech ] I needed this video today.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2009

NAATBatt is a not-for-profit industry consortium of more than 50 corporations, associations and research institutions dedicated to making the United States a world leader in the manufacture of advanced lithium-ion or Li-Ion battery cells for transportation applications. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2014

Walmart showcased its Walmart Advanced Vehicle Experience (WAVE) at the Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS) in Louisville, Ky. The vehicle’s trailer, manufactured by Great Dane Trailers, offers a host of fuel-saving features. Further, with the air-cooled microturbine, there is no need for a large radiator in front of the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2009

The Commonwealth of Kentucky, the University of Kentucky (UK) and University of Louisville (U of L) are partnering with the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory to establish a national Battery Manufacturing R&D Center to help develop and deploy a domestic supply of advanced battery technologies for vehicle applications.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2015

will introduce the first of its next generation of ultra-high efficiency aftertreatment systems, the EcoFit Single Module, at the Mid America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky on 26 March. The remaining ash can be removed during regularly scheduled cleaning events based on the recommendations of the engine manufacturer.

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