Tag: EV Manufacturing
Tesla Motors requires 10+ car factories, 10+ gigafactories, by 2025, to meet Musks projections
Tesla Motors has to remain on a course of rapidly growing sales, service and production capacity. Why? In a recent interview with Bloomberg News, Elon Musk confidently predicted that by 2025 the total Tesla Motors sales volume will be a “few million cars per year”. As cool as their factory…
Nissan might shift battery cell production to LG Chem in bid to compete with Tesla Model 3
The whole car industry must be able to compete against a 200+ mile range $35,000 MSRP electric car from Tesla Motors, by 2017. That fact is probably what’s behind today’s news/rumors that Nissan may be shutting down its battery factories and switching to LG Chem as their battery supplier. In…
Tesla’s gigafactory: a large industrial park under one roof, to lower battery pack costs
Tesla Motors’s model for the Gigafactory is, as is usual for Tesla, unusual. The factory will be wholly owned by Tesla, but the plan is that it will be like an “industrial park under one roof” with several companies all performing their bits, but working together on the goal of…
Tesla Motors building new manufacturing site in Lathrop, CA, for manufacturing expansion at low wages
Tesla Motors is apparently setting up a small manufacturing facility, in California, that has little or nothing to do with the Gigafactory. The latter facility is meant to double the worlds production of lithium-ion batteries, requiring over 10 million square feet, a rail line, and space for a big solar…
GM reaffirming 2nd gen Volt, other EV’s coming, investing in new electrified vehicle manufacturing
General Motors is reaffirming its investment in electrified vehicles, reaffirming there will be a 2nd Generation Volt (something which wasn’t always a given), hinting at future electrified cars from GM. On Wednesday, the company announced nearly $500 million in investments in new manufacturing equipment and processes to support building the…
Tesla’s electric car plans set to swamp worldwide lithium battery manufacturing
Tesla Motors, with plans to be making 400,000 cars a year or more by 2018, is pushing suppliers to build a truly gargantuan battery cell manufacturing plant. While Tesla Motors’ plan to increase Model S production to 40,000 cars a year by the end of 2014 will be good for their…
Tesla talking with Samsung to supply battery cells
Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) could diversify its supply chain by signing up a new battery cell maker. Tesla Motors is talking with Samsung SDI to supply battery cells, according to a report in the Korean Herald. This would diversify a critical component in Tesla’s supply chain, and potentially give the company a much-needed boost…
Clean electric cars and the supposed dirty secret being used to sow Fear Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD)
Earlier this week Climate Change Skeptic Bjorn Lomborg wrote an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal that’s one of these bash-the-electric-cars hit pieces that come along every so often. The piece has a number of holes in it, and in a TorqueNews piece I went over a response published…
Is GM going to build the Chevy Volt in China, and does it matter if they do?
Reports have been circulating since last year that GM is planning to move electric car development and/or manufacturing to China. In some circles, especially those who like to rephrase GM’s name as “Government Motors”, this thought is highly controversial. In truth GM sells more cars in China than it does…
$2.4 billion grants program to jump start electric vehicle business in the U.S.
Today the Obama Administration announced $2.4 billion in grants meant to accelerate development of manufacturing capability for electric vehicles and electric vehicle batteries. The grants are funding 48 new battery and electric drive projects as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. These projects were selected through a competitive…
Tesla Motors requires 10+ car factories, 10+ gigafactories, by 2025, to meet Musks projections
Tesla Motors has to remain on a course of rapidly growing sales, service and production capacity. Why? In a recent interview with Bloomberg News, Elon Musk confidently predicted that by 2025 the total Tesla Motors sales volume will be a “few million cars per year”. As cool as their factory…
Nissan might shift battery cell production to LG Chem in bid to compete with Tesla Model 3
The whole car industry must be able to compete against a 200+ mile range $35,000 MSRP electric car from Tesla Motors, by 2017. That fact is probably what’s behind today’s news/rumors that Nissan may be shutting down its battery factories and switching to LG Chem as their battery supplier. In…
Tesla’s gigafactory: a large industrial park under one roof, to lower battery pack costs
Tesla Motors’s model for the Gigafactory is, as is usual for Tesla, unusual. The factory will be wholly owned by Tesla, but the plan is that it will be like an “industrial park under one roof” with several companies all performing their bits, but working together on the goal of…
Tesla Motors building new manufacturing site in Lathrop, CA, for manufacturing expansion at low wages
Tesla Motors is apparently setting up a small manufacturing facility, in California, that has little or nothing to do with the Gigafactory. The latter facility is meant to double the worlds production of lithium-ion batteries, requiring over 10 million square feet, a rail line, and space for a big solar…
GM reaffirming 2nd gen Volt, other EV’s coming, investing in new electrified vehicle manufacturing
General Motors is reaffirming its investment in electrified vehicles, reaffirming there will be a 2nd Generation Volt (something which wasn’t always a given), hinting at future electrified cars from GM. On Wednesday, the company announced nearly $500 million in investments in new manufacturing equipment and processes to support building the…
Tesla’s electric car plans set to swamp worldwide lithium battery manufacturing
Tesla Motors, with plans to be making 400,000 cars a year or more by 2018, is pushing suppliers to build a truly gargantuan battery cell manufacturing plant. While Tesla Motors’ plan to increase Model S production to 40,000 cars a year by the end of 2014 will be good for their…
Tesla talking with Samsung to supply battery cells
Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) could diversify its supply chain by signing up a new battery cell maker. Tesla Motors is talking with Samsung SDI to supply battery cells, according to a report in the Korean Herald. This would diversify a critical component in Tesla’s supply chain, and potentially give the company a much-needed boost…
Clean electric cars and the supposed dirty secret being used to sow Fear Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD)
Earlier this week Climate Change Skeptic Bjorn Lomborg wrote an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal that’s one of these bash-the-electric-cars hit pieces that come along every so often. The piece has a number of holes in it, and in a TorqueNews piece I went over a response published…
Is GM going to build the Chevy Volt in China, and does it matter if they do?
Reports have been circulating since last year that GM is planning to move electric car development and/or manufacturing to China. In some circles, especially those who like to rephrase GM’s name as “Government Motors”, this thought is highly controversial. In truth GM sells more cars in China than it does…
$2.4 billion grants program to jump start electric vehicle business in the U.S.
Today the Obama Administration announced $2.4 billion in grants meant to accelerate development of manufacturing capability for electric vehicles and electric vehicle batteries. The grants are funding 48 new battery and electric drive projects as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. These projects were selected through a competitive…
