Construction work has begun on Daimler subsidiary ACCUMOTIVE’s second electric vehicle battery production facility, which is being built in Kamenz, Germany, the same town where the first one is located.
Faraday Future has selected the firm AECOM to construct its new $1 billion, 3-million-square-foot electric vehicle manufacturing facility in North Las Vegas, Nevada, according to a new press release from the company. As it stands, AECOM’s industrial construction services practice has already begun demolition — which includes mass grading for … [continued]
The new master plan for Tesla’s Fremont manufacturing facility, submitted by the company to the Fremont Planning Commission, suggests that Tesla may end up doubling the size of the facility over the coming years. To be more specific, the plans show that Tesla could end up adding as much as 4.6 … [continued]
German engineering megalith Siemens has unveiled a new raft of wind turbine designs at the WindEnergy Hamburg trade show this week, including a new turbine for low wind and medium wind locations, and a low-noise turbine for noise-sensitive sites. The three new wind turbine designs are all based on Siemens’ … [continued]
Originally published on the EV Annex blog. By Roger Pressman When future owners of Model 3 hear that I drive a Model S and a Model X and work within the Tesla aftermarket ecosystem, they inevitably ask the following question: “I signed up on the second day,” they ask, “when do … [continued]
By Stephen J. Veneruso With a name like “Gigafactory,” it should come as no surprise that the press has focused on the eye-popping scale of Tesla Energy’s entry into the energy storage market. But will it work? As a technologist who has spent decades designing, implementing, and managing 8- and … [continued]
Economic advancement goes through stages: agriculturally dominated societies to industrially dominated societies to consumer and information worker societies. It’s typically only as the shift to the consumer and information worker societies occurs that significant negative externalities such as climate change and air pollution start to be truly addressed by most … [continued]
There are many questions about renewable energy and electric transport that people who haven’t been following these industries for years or decades often have, and there are also many recurring myths that many of us spend a lot of time addressing. A few commenters have proposed that what is needed is one central … [continued]
The beginning of construction has begun at what will be Samsung SDI’s new electric vehicle battery production plant in Goed, Hungary, according to recent reports. The new plant will be making use of existing infrastructure — an earlier Samsung display production facility, to be more specific — which will help … [continued]
GM’s Orion Assembly manufacturing plant, where the Chevy Bolt is being put together, now ranks as the 8th largest user of “green power” generated onsite in the US — out of the Environmental Protection Agency’s network of “Green Power Partnership Partners.” The Orion Assembly plant is currently home to a 350 … [continued]
