Credit to Author: Jo Borrás| Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2022 18:15:28 +0000
Ultium Cells LLC, the battery-making JV between LG Chem and GM, has announced plans to invest an additional $275 million in its Spring Hill, TN, plant. The cash infusion is expected to increase the plant’s battery production capacity by more than 40% (from 35 gigawatt-hours to 50 GWh), and create more than 400 new jobs. […]
Credit to Author: Stuart Ungar| Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2022 20:12:15 +0000
Ford and SK Innovation broke ground today in Glendale, Kentucky, on a battery factory that will create 5,000 new jobs. The training for these workers will also take place locally at the new Elizabethtown Community and Technical College BlueOval SK Training Center. The facility is a whopping 42,000 square feet and the state has ponied […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 17:00:17 +0000
In a perfect world, there would be plenty of battery materials available at affordable prices, manufacturing costs would be dropping steadily, and there would be a large supply of affordable electric cars in the world’s showrooms. Sadly, we don’t live in a perfect world. The price of battery materials is soaring, the cost of electricity […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 17:00:37 +0000
Want to know whether a company is serious about building EVs? Don’t take its plans at face value. Don’t take even its final assembly plants for granted, especially if it’s on a flexible architecture. The truth is, if you really want to know whether a company is going to build EVs, you have to see […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2022 20:05:13 +0000
Following closely on the heels of rumors about sodium-ion batteries, BYD announced a new 20 GWh battery factory in China.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2022 23:00:02 +0000
The on again, off again plan by CATL to build a battery factory in North America is off again because of concerns about the Inflation Reduction Act.
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 16:00:42 +0000
As part of the Ford+ plan for growth and value-creation, Ford Motor Company is investing $700 million in new investment and creating 500 additional hourly manufacturing jobs in Kentucky. This will support an all-new F-Series Super Duty pickup being built at Ford’s Kentucky Truck plant in Louisville. But, that’s not all the company is doing. […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 16:00:24 +0000
The new Imperium3NY battery factory in Endicott, New York has begun making battery cells from materials sourced within North America.
Credit to Author: Raymond Tribdino| Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2022 19:30:28 +0000
When Toyota announced its plan in April of 2021 to introduce a full line-up of 70 electrified vehicles, with 15 BEVs, including 7 new and already available bZ BEV models by 2025, it also set in motion a series of peripheral manufacturing and R&D actions. Just over a year later it finalized plans to create […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 16:30:43 +0000
Battery factory construction in the US is ramping up in a big way, with both Panasonic and LG Energy Solution announcing new plans.