All articles by Illya Verpraet – Page 2

  • Scania plug-in truck
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    Scania to build battery plant and research centre in Sweden

    2020-11-23T12:36:00Z

    Scania is building a lithium battery assembly facility at its plant in Södertälje, Sweden to support production of a range of electric trucks and buses. The cells will be supplied by Northvolt in Sweden but battery module assembly onsite will overcome the dangers and cost associated with the inbound delivery of finished modules

  • Audi Gyor Logistics halls
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    OEMs see the sunny side of sustainability

    2020-11-16T16:16:00Z

    As the cars themselves become cleaner, manufacturing operations can’t stay behind. In an effort to achieve carbon neutrality, OEMs turn to large-scale solar developments to power their plants

  • Cadillac Lyriq Spring Hill
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    GM invests $4 billion to prepare Spring Hill and Detroit-Hamtramck plants for EV production

    2020-10-22T13:55:00Z

    General Motors is moving forward with investments to equip its factories to produce electric vehicles (EVs). The Spring Hill, Tennessee plant gets a $2 billion upgrade to produce the Cadillac Lyriq and the and Detroit-Hamtramck plant will see $2.2 billion invested to produce the recently unveiled GMC Hummer EV.

  • Corvette C8 Bowling Green Assembly line
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    GM restarts Corvette assembly after supply shortage

    2020-10-19T14:50:00Z

    General Motors has confirmed that it restarted production of the Corvette sports car in Kentucky on Monday after a week of shutdowns that resulted from parts shortages.

  • Arrival Microfactory South Carolina US
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    EV start-up Arrival to build microfactory in South Carolina

    2020-10-19T11:13:00Z

    Arrival, the start-up that plans to build electric commercial vehicles in what it calls ‘microfactories’, has announced its first US production location in York County, South Carolina. It has also raised $118m from funds managed by BlackRock.

  • Volkswagen Passat production welding Emden
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    2,200 new robots to improve automation at VW Chattanooga, Emden and Hannover plants

    2020-10-16T14:25:00Z

    Volkswagen is investing in automation with robots from Fanuc and ABB at its Chattanooga, Emden and Hannover plants, in preparation for those factories to start producing electric vehicles based on the MEB platform. The robots are to be mainly used for body production and battery assembly.

  • Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Center in Singapore HMGICS
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    Hyundai to build EV factory and R&D centre in Singapore

    2020-10-14T13:40:00Z

    In a virtual groundbreaking ceremony, Hyundai has ­­announced it is building the Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Center in Singapore (HMGICS) which will serve as a new R&D centre and small-scale production facility with an output of up to 30,000 vehicles per year and help to forge a new supply chain in the city state.

  • Tesla Gigafactory Berlin rendering
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    Can Tesla shift the balance of EV battery and cell manufacturing away from China?

    2020-10-12T13:43:00Z

    At Tesla’s recent Battery Day presentation, the company promised to shake up its battery supply chains by moving into cell production and even the mining of raw material, but how realistic are these targets?

  • Arrival_truck
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    Arrival plans to build fully automated microfactories

    2020-09-28T10:55:00Z

    Electric commercial vehicle maker Arrival could have as many as 1,000 automated microfactories operating by 2026, with the first now under construction. Localised supply is a priority and the manufacturing and logistics will be supported by industry 4.0 technology

  • Tesla_Gigafactory1_Nevada
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    Tesla plans for more efficient battery production

    2020-09-24T15:22:00Z

    Tesla has revealed a host of production innovations to make lithium-ion battery manufacturing more efficient and reduce costs, including in-house battery cell production, which could cut the miles travelled for the battery production by 80%, and the reduction of the cobalt content of the cathode, which would bring further supply chain savings