Manufacturing
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has responded vigorously to an employee's claims of low wages and commonplace on-the-job injuries. In an email to employees and statements to media outlets, Musk denied the claims and accused the employee who made them of being a paid union agitator. Earlier this month, Jose Moran said Tesla employees, "routinely work well over 40 hours a week, including excessive mandatory overtime." DON'T MISS: Will Tesla Model 3 be most 'made in America' car, beating Toyota Camry? The claims came in a Medium post, in which Moran also said Tesla workers routinely suffered from...
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Will Tesla Model 3 be most 'made in America' car, beating Toyota Camry?For some buyers, where a car is made can be as important as the qualities of the car itself. "Made in America" can be a powerful selling point, especially after a presidential election in which domestic manufacturing jobs were a hot-button issue. But in the age of globalization, U.S. automakers no...
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Electric-car batteries: $100 per kwh before 2020, $80 soon after?
Modern electric cars have developed to the point where range itself may become less of an issue than the cost of providing it. Automakers can create longer-range electric cars simply by installing larger battery packs, but that adds significant cost to the car's single priciest component. Just ask...
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How much have electric-car battery costs fallen? This much!
High costs of lithium-ion battery cells have been one of the main hindrances to large-scale electric-car adoption, as they typically lead to higher purchase prices for electric cars than comparable internal-combustion models. But electric-car battery prices are falling fast, according to one recent...
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Tesla starts cell production at Gigafactory, shows it off to investors
Tesla is now producing lithium-ion battery cells at its massive Gigafactory.
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Tesla jobs at Fremont could exceed those in GM-Toyota days with Model 3
The Fremont City Council recently approved an expansion of Tesla's factory.
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Volkswagen will build electric cars based on its MEB platform in North America beginning in 2021.
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Lucid (nee Atieva) to build luxury electric cars in Arizona factory
Lucid Motors will build its electric-car factory in Arizona.
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Faraday Future halts factory work, hopes to resume early 2017 (update)
Work on Faraday Future's Nevada factory has stopped.
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Tesla's new manufacturing chief has a lot on his plate (Model 3, mostly)
Tesla's new manufacturing boss will seek to reach annual production of 500,000 electric cars by 2018.
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Electric cars will require 10,000-plus job cuts at VW, says HR chief
Volkswagen's HR boss predicts significant job cuts related to electric cars.
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Faraday Future imperils electric-car factory, misses payment to contractor
Faraday Future missed payments to lead contractor AECOM.
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Plug-in electric cars are going to be a bigger part of the vehicle mix in future than they have been to date. That much is abundantly clear. Electric cars are one of four significant forces that will likely change what we think of as an "automobile" forever, the others being autonomy, connectivity, and sharing. DON'T MISS: Tesla and China: why an obvious match isn't as simple as it seems But where will those electric cars come from? Today, cars with plugs are largely built only in North America, Europe, and China. So we asked our Twitter followers which country (or region) would be producing...
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Electric cars necessary to protect Mercedes jobs, says labor leader
Daimler's labor leader wants the company to produce more electric-powertrain components in house.
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Small cars leave U.S.: Ford to build next Focus in Mexico (Model E too)
Ford will build the next-generation Focus in Mexico.
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Samsung Hungarian battery plant to open in 2018, perhaps for BMW electric cars?
Samsung SDI plans to open a battery plant in Hungary.
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Tesla now 'driving force' behind San Francisco area manufacturing
Electric-car maker Tesla Motors has had many interesting and unexpected effects in its decade of existence. It's launched a series of electric cars with 200 miles or more of range, which remain—eight years after its first Roadster—the only such cars sold today that can make that claim...
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Karma, Faraday plan large Chinese electric-car factories
Karma parent Wanxiang and Faraday Future backer LeEco are both planning Chinese electric-car factories.
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Tesla plans to make the gigafactory a net-zero facility.
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VW likely to build electric cars in North America by 2020: executive
Volkswagen may build an electric car in North America beginning in 2020.
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2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car to enter production in October
The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV will start full-scale production in October, a new report says.
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VW's big electric-car pledge: LG Chem, Panasonic possible battery partners (updated)
Volkswagen reportedly hopes to sell 1 million electric cars within the next decade.
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Tesla battery partner Panasonic expects cell sales to double in three years
Panasonic expects significant growth in its battery-cell sales, driven by demand from Tesla.
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Karma Revero (nee Fisker) now in pilot production in CA
Pilot production of the Karma Revero is underway at Karma Automotive's new California factory.
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