Ford, SK Innovation Plan $11.4B in Tennessee, Kentucky EV Plant Projects

The projects include an auto assembly plant and battery plant campus in Tennessee, plus a pair of battery plants in Kentucky.

IDTechEx Discusses the Many Trends to Track for Li-ion Batteries in Electric Vehicles

Overall, worldwide electric car sales were stronger than expected in 2020. Additionally, investment continued to pour into electric vehicles and Li-ion batteries with 2020 seeing an additional 200 GWh of planned capacity announcements in Europe – this figure continues to grow on a regular basis in 2021. The past year has also seen Tesla, Volkswagen, General Motors, SK Innovation, and LG Chem all come forward with investor […] The post IDTechEx Discusses the Many Trends to Track for Li-ion Batteries in Electric Vehicles appeared first on Civil + Structural Engineer magazine.

Tomorrow's Build - We Need to Build a LOT More Gigafactories, 20072021

With an electric car revolution on the way but not nearly enough batteries to power them, construction has to get really good at building gigafactories - and fast. This video highlights a number of companies aiming to construct Gigafactories in Europe