Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Plug Power is expanding its green hydrogen ecosystem to the US west coast with the construction of a new production facility in Fresno County, California. As the largest green hydrogen production facility on the west coast, the plant will produce 30 metric tons of liquid green hydrogen daily, serving customers from San Diego to Vancouver.

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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 Congress

JANUARY 4, 2023

Most of the announced battery plant projects are scheduled to begin production between 2025 and 2030. By 2030, this production capacity will be capable of supporting the manufacture of roughly 10 to 13 million all-electric vehicles per year.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

LG Chem announced Tuesday that it’s planning a mammoth cathode material plant in Tennessee that will aid U.S. domestic electric vehicle battery production. According to LG, the plant will be the largest of its kind in the U.S.,

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 6, 2021

General Motors plans to make an upcoming Acura-branded electric vehicle in 2024 at the same Tennessee plant that will assemble the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq, while a more affordable Honda crossover set to be about the same size could be made by GM in Mexico beginning in 2023.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award $20 million to ten new research and development projects that will advance hydrogen production and delivery technologies: six on hydrogen production and four on hydrogen delivery. million to develop a reactor for hydrogen production from bio-derived liquids. FuelCell Energy Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This project will expand Anovion’s existing manufacturing capacity in Sanborn, NY—notably the only qualified US source of battery-grade synthetic graphite commercially shipping product today. This project (“Phase 3 Expansion”) will expand the production capacity of the Vidalia AAM facility from 11,250tpa to at least 45,000tpa AAM.

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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. The first Volkswagen ID.4

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2022

billion loan to Ultium Cells LLC to help finance the construction of new lithium-ion battery cell manufacturing facilities in Ohio, Tennessee, and Michigan. The US Department of Energy (DOE), through its Loan Programs Office (LPO), announced the closing of a $2.5-billion

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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. Thogus Products Company; Toray Composites (America), Inc.; Thogus Products Company; Toray Composites (America), Inc.; Adherent Technologies, Inc.;

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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

AUGUST 15, 2023

IperionX ( earlier post ) has received key development permits for the Titan Project in Tennessee. The major development permits include the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit and Surface Mining Permit, which have now been issued by the Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation.

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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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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 Congress

APRIL 22, 2021

The production model 2023 Cadillac LYRIQ EV has made its debut. The 2023 Cadillac LYRIQ is expected to go into production in the first quarter of 2022, with pricing starting at $59,990. Customers will be able to select from Satin Steel Metallic or Stellar Black Metallic exterior colors, and Sky Cool Gray or Noir for the interior.

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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. Production is slated to begin in 2026, with 2,500 employees. Ford Motor Company is investing C$1.8 billion (US$1.3 Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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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

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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Electric Cars Report

DECEMBER 22, 2023

intending to establish a production hub for the global battery material market. The facility, located in Montgomery County, Clarksville, Tennessee, will locally produce cathode materials optimized for North American electric vehicles and collaborate with key partners from development to supply chain.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2021

The facility will be located in Spring Hill, Tennessee. Early conceptual rendering of Ultium Cells LLC battery cell manufacturing facility in Spring Hill, Tennessee. This partnership with General Motors will transform Tennessee into another key location for electric vehicle and battery production.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2019

Although they originally developed both processes to address the problems of liquid waste formed during biofuel production, Electro-Active Technologies will focus on fighting food waste. He is now a research professor at the University of Tennessee, while also working with the startup.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $19 million for 13 projects in traditionally fossil-fuel-producing communities across the country to support production of rare earth elements and critical minerals essential to the manufacturing of batteries, magnets, and other components important to the clean energy economy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $3 million in funding for advanced biofuels, bioenergy, and biobased products available through the Biomass Research and Development Initiative (BRDI). The DOE selections are: The University of Tennessee (UT). Northwestern University (NU).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

BASF has expanded its partnership with Nissan, and is now also supplying the automaker with coatings and paints for the Pathfinder and Infiniti models at its Smyrna plant in Tennessee, USA. This shortened process leads to shorter production time, less energy consumption, streamlined paint lines and lower emissions.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 23, 2020

An expansion of VW's Chattanooga, Tennessee, factory that will allow the ID.4 Despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Volkswagen ID.4 4 electric crossover is still due to start deliveries later this year. 4 to later be built locally is also on schedule for 2022.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2021

BrightDrop, the new tech startup from GM, is on a mission to reimagine commercial delivery and logistics for an all-electric future through products like the EV600 light commercial vehicle. In addition to enabling dynamic all-new vehicles such as the GMC HUMMER EV off-road supertruck, Ultium is helping GM to grow its business in new ways.

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EV Specifications

DECEMBER 28, 2023

intending to establish a production hub for the global battery material market. The facility, located in Montgomery County, Clarksville, Tennessee, will locally produce cathode materials optimized for North American electric vehicles (EVs) and collaborate with key partners from development to the supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2023

Lie, who will be based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, brings extensive vehicle engineering experience that will help advance Volkswagen’s commitment to mobility innovation. Notably, this includes the design, development and launch of multiple battery electric vehicles (BEVs), as well as developing and launching advanced driver assistance systems.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

DuPont began developing an integrated solution for the commercial scale production of second generation ethanol from biomass in 2008. Producing stover-based ethanol used in many vehicles at the University of Tennessee. This optimized conversion process is being deployed in the facility in Nevada, Iowa.

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Electrek

AUGUST 19, 2021

4 electric SUV pre-production units have rolled off the assembly line at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tennessee, factory. 4 electric SUV pre-production units roll off the line at Chattanooga factory appeared first on Electrek. The first VW ID.4 more… The post First VW ID.4

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Teslarati

JULY 21, 2021

Rivian is partnering with the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) to install electric vehicle charging stations at Tenessee State Parks. The charging stations are likely to be installed at all 56 State Parks in the State of Tennessee, “depending on the availability of electricity and planned future park upgrades.”

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Green Car Reports

JULY 26, 2022

Volkswagen on Tuesday confirmed that production of customer-bound ID.4 4 models has started at its Chattanooga, Tennessee, plant. The occasion marks the first electric model the automaker has produced in the U.S. Volkswagen says that 190,000 units of the ID.4

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Production for the 2018 Nissan LEAF EV is officially underway at the Smyrna Vehicle Assembly Plant in Smyrna, Tennessee. The Nissan LEAF has been in production at Smyrna since 2013, with more than 114,550 models sold in the United States since 2011. It has an annual production capacity of 640,000 vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2014

The Ram Heavy Duty diesel pickup trucks added the SCR technology for the first time when production of the redesigned 2500 and 3500 series trucks began last year at Chrysler’s Saltillo, Mexico Truck Assembly Plant. Tenneco produces the aftertreatment components at its manufacturing facilities in Smithville, Tennessee and Puebla, Mexico.

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In addition to Plug Power’s new green hydrogen production facility in California, Plug Power maintains a network of plants in New York, Tennessee, and Georgia that will help the company realize its goal of producing more than 1,000 tons per day of green hydrogen by 2028. —Andy Marsh, CEO for Plug Power.

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