KORE Power kills $1 billion Arizona EV battery factory plans
KORE Power has scrapped plans for its $1 billion lithium-ion battery factory in Buckeye, Arizona, and its CEO and founder has resigned.
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Ford closes a $9.63 billion DOE loan to supercharge 3 EV battery factories
In a significant boost for the US EV industry, Ford’s joint venture, BlueOval SK, has closed a $9.63 billion loan from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loans Programs Office.
Expand Expanding CloseAmprius ships EV battery that reaches 90% charge in 15 minutes
Amprius Technologies has shipped its power-packed A-Sample EV cells to the United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC), a research collaboration between major automakers to advance EV battery technology.
Expand Expanding CloseNevada is getting the world’s first lithium-sulfur battery gigafactory
Supermaterials trailblazer Lyten will invest over $1 billion to build the world’s first lithium-sulfur battery gigafactory in Reno, Nevada.
Expand Expanding CloseSK On and Sakuu will jointly develop 3D-printed EV batteries
Global EV battery maker SK On now has a joint development agreement with Sakuu, the “world’s first manufacturing platform for printing battery electrodes.”
Expand Expanding CloseA $2-3 billion battery factory for electric trucks just broke ground in Mississippi
Daimler Trucks, Accelera by Cummins, and truck maker PACCAR broke ground on a huge battery cell factory for electric trucks in Mississippi.
Expand Expanding CloseStellantis is about to test the first-ever production-line lithium-sulfur batteries
In a milestone, supermaterials trailblazer Lyten has shipped lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries to Stellantis and other US and EU OEMs for testing.
Expand Expanding CloseBMW’s EV battery partner launches a $1.5B factory expansion in South Carolina
Battery tech firm AESC, which is partnered with BMW, is investing $1.5 billion to expand its EV battery factory in South Carolina.
Expand Expanding Close$3.5 billion of new federal funding for US battery manufacturing announced
As part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Biden administration announced that a new round of federal funds to support the US battery manufacturing industry is becoming available. This $3.5 billion package is the second part of a large $6 billion-plus program that awarded funds to its first applicants last year.
Expand Expanding CloseA $2-3B battery factory for electric trucks is coming to the US
Daimler, Cummins, and PACCAR are forming a joint venture to manufacture battery cells in the US for commercial electric trucks.
Expand Expanding CloseHere’s where the $154B investment and 188k jobs from Biden’s EV push are going
In recent years, automakers have announced new EV investments totaling $154 billion and creating 188,000 jobs, largely catalyzed by President Biden’s EV policies. A new map shows where it’s all happening in the US.
(Update: These numbers keep increasing, see this tool for updated numbers)
Expand Expanding CloseA new EV battery cell electrode factory is coming to the US
Irvine, California-based Enevate and Korea’s JR Energy Solution today announced that they’re going to jointly build a US battery cell electrode factory.
Expand Expanding CloseKORE Power’s big EV battery factory just got an $850M DOE boost
The construction of KORE Power‘s EV battery factory in Arizona is now fast-tracked with a US Department of Energy loan for $850 million.
Expand Expanding CloseNorth America’s largest graphite factory is launching in Georgia
Graphite is in virtually all EV batteries, and Chicago-based Anovion Technologies is opening the largest graphite production facility in North America.
Expand Expanding CloseWest Virginia is getting a big new battery storage factory
Michigan-based Our Next Energy (ONE) is going to open a long-duration battery storage factory in West Virginia, next to a 420 MWh solar microgrid.
Expand Expanding CloseAmprius is going to open a new gigafactory in Colorado
Battery developer Amprius Technologies (NYSE: AMPX) today announced that it has signed a letter of intent for a 775,000-square-foot facility near Denver.
Expand Expanding CloseBiden administration, DOE announce $3 billion in new funding to support US EV battery manufacturing and recycling
President Biden and the US Department of Energy have issued multiple notices of intent to allocate $2.91 billion in support of EV battery manufacturing as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The DOE shared plans to use the funds to further battery materials refining, production plants, and battery cell manufacturing facilities in addition to battery recycling.
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