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GM invests $449 million to upgrade Volt and battery plants

General Motors has announced that it will invest $449 million to upgrade manufacturing processes at the Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly and Brownstown Battery Assembly plants. “These investments will help the next-generation Chevrolet Volt build on its position as the leader in electrified propulsion,” said Gerald Johnson, GM North America Manufacturing Vice President. The Hamtramck facility (affectionately known… Read more »

LG Chem says US battery plant will begin production in late 2013

South Korea’s LG Chem plans to start production at its US car battery factory in the second half of this year, two executives told Automotive News. The Holland, Michigan manufacturing plant drew some unpleasant publicity in February, when a DOE investigation found that the production line at the plant was idle, but workers were being… Read more »

VIDEO: Nissan opens Tennessee battery plant, celebrates two years of LEAF sales

Nissan has announced the launch of the United States’ largest lithium-ion automotive battery plant in Smyrna, Tennessee. The first batteries produced at the plant have completed the required aging process and are ready to receive their first charges. The new facility, adjacent to the vehicle assembly plant where the LEAF is built, is part of… Read more »

Redwood Materials breaks ground on South Carolina EV battery recycling plant

Redwood Materials, the battery recycling firm run by Tesla alum JB Straubel, recently broke ground on a new facility near Charleston, South Carolina. The plant will complement the company’s Nevada materials location, and will be used to recycle, refine and remanufacture anode and cathode components. Also like Redwood’s Nevada site, the new Battery Materials Campus… Read more »

6K Energy wins $50-million DOE grant for PlusCAM battery material production plant in Tennessee

6K Energy, a provider of critical materials for lithium-ion batteries, has won a $50-million grant from the DOE’s Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains for its PlusCAM battery material production plant located in Jackson, Tennessee. The company will apply the 50 big ones to the estimated $200-million construction cost for the factory. The PlusCAM… Read more »

Umicore expands its EV battery materials production with CAM and pCAM plant in Ontario

Umicore, a Belgian metal technology company, is building a 35 GWh equivalent battery materials production plant in Loyalist, Ontario, for the North American EV battery industry. The federal and provincial governments have agreed to directly provide Umicore with €1.27 billion in co-funding.  Using precursor cathode active material (pCAM) and CAM, critical components for battery performance,… Read more »

ICL inaugurates $400-million US battery materials manufacturing plant

Minerals specialist company ICL has inaugurated a large-scale battery materials manufacturing plant in St. Louis, Missouri. The $400-million plant will manufacture materials for lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries and will be operational by 2025 to meet growing demand from the energy storage, EV and clean energy industries for battery materials produced and sourced in the… Read more »

Cirba Solutions to build EV battery recycling plant in South Carolina

Battery recycling company Cirba Solutions has announced a Phase I investment of at least $300 million in a new battery recycling facility to be built near Columbia, South Carolina. The plant, Cirba’s eighth in North America and fourth in the US, will focus on processing end-of-life hybrid and EV batteries, gigafactory scrap, and end-of-life consumer… Read more »

Porsche Consulting to design future Sakuú battery manufacturing plants

3D-printed solid-state battery manufacturer Sakuú has selected Porsche Consulting to design its planned global gigafactories. Sakuú expects the partnership to provide it with expertise for building gigafactories to meet its 2030 annual energy output goal of 200 GWh across its developing energy storage product line. Sakuú’s first plant design will accommodate roll-to-roll manufacturing for its… Read more »