Toyota to invest $2.1 Billion in Kentucky plant for EV Battery

Toyota has announced investment of $2.1 billion in its new U.S. battery facility in North Carolina. The manufacturer also announced assembly of battery electric SUVs would begin at the company’s factory in Kentucky beginning in 2025. There will be six battery manufacturing lines at the plant, four for hybrid electric cars and two for battery … Read more

Ford Electric Cars to have Tesla supercharging from 2024

Ford will start offering adapters for its electric car customers to use Tesla Superchargers in the first quarter of 2024. The adapter will allow Ford EVs to use over 12,000 Tesla Superchargers located in the United States and Canada. This will be added to the BlueOval Charge Network’s over 10,000 EV quick chargers. Today saw … Read more

Hyundai LG announce US$4.3 Billion EV battery plant in Georgia

The construction of Hyundai-LGES factory in Georgia is expected to begin during the latter part of 2023, with battery manufacturing set to begin by the end of 2025. Hyundai and LG have said that its annual manufacturing capacity of 30 GWh would be sufficient to enable the yearly manufacture of 300,000 EVs. Both Hyundai Motor … Read more

USA is getting serious about Electric Mobility

The US Department of Energy has announced $99.5 million investment for EV projects. Currently, 45 EV projects have been awarded a total of $87 million. This new fiscal year 2023 grant opportunity was made available by the DOE’s Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO). The total of $99.5 million is earmarked towards the development of battery packs … Read more

Maserati’s Quattroporte EV could come with 1000hp

Maserati Quattroporte EV would be based on STLA Medium Architecture platform. The Quattroporte EV would an electric range in excess of 450 km. It would be offered with an AWD configuration. According to reports, the Maserati would be launched in the later part of 2023. The deliveries are expected to commence in 2024. The design … Read more

LG to invest $5.5 Billion for battery factory in Arizona.

LG Energy Solutions had announced last year that it would invest $1.3 Billion, but due to growing EV demand it announced $5.5 Billion investment on Friday, quadrupling its prior investment for a battery factory in Arizona. The Arizona factory would cater to manufacturing batteries for electric cars and trucks. The battery complex situated near Phoenix … Read more

Ford’s EV unit, which lost $3 billion should be seen as a startup says Ford.

Ford Motor Company ‘s electric vehicle unit has lost nearly $3 Billion is past two years and is due to lose some what same amount this year thanks to new technology investment. Although the company is confident that their EV Unit – “Model E” will turn profitable soon. Ford released their figures earlier and announced … Read more

Ford unveils Explorer EV exclusively for European markets.

Ford Motor Company has unveiled its Explorer EV for European markets. The move has been seen as part of Ford’s ambitious plan for electric vehicles. By introducing Explorer EV Ford is leveraging on the well known brand “Explorer”. The new Ford Electric SUV will be manufactured in Germany. Thanks to Volkswagen and Ford’s partnership, the … Read more