EV Manufacturing
Stories tagged EV Manufacturing.
A ₹1.95 crore BMW, a ₹1.5 lakh scooter and an idle Ford plant walk into Tamil Nadu
BMW now builds the i7 in Chennai, Ultraviolette is spending ₹779 crore on a Hosur plant, and Ford may convert its shuttered factory into an EV hub. None of it is aimed at Indian buyers first.
The South cancelled $4.5bn of EV plants and kept selling more EVs anyway
Five Southeastern facilities were scrapped or downsized in twelve months, costing 9,670 anticipated jobs. Regional EV sales rose 25 percent over the same period.
Toyota says the Highlander EV isn't delayed. It also isn't building it until January
Nikkei says Georgetown won't start the three-row electric Highlander before January 2027; Toyota says the timeline hasn't changed. Both can be true, and the Subaru Getaway is stuck behind it either way.
Three prototypes, four months: inside Slate's race to build a $24,950 pickup
Slate has a working body shop in a converted Indiana printing plant, 180,000 reservation holders and a Q4 delivery promise. The rest of the factory is still coming together.
Battery-plant storage pivots run into data-center backlash
Ford and GM are finding grid-storage work for battery capacity built around stronger EV forecasts. Data-center demand offers growth, along with a fast-spreading local political fight.
Ford's Louisville assembly tree is 40% quicker, but nets 15%
Ford says its rebuilt Louisville plant can assemble the $28,350 Fathom pickup 40% faster before added automation and quality checks reduce the net gain to 15%.