The Ford Motor Company plans to invest US$1.3bn in converting its Oakville Assembly Plant in Ontario to produce electric vehicles (EVs), CNBC reports.  The 200ha plant, to be renamed the…

US battery manufacturer Entek plans a $1.5bn, 340-acre greenfield factory in Terre Haute, Indiana to make lithium battery separator components for electric vehicles. The US Department of Energy granted the…

Bechtel will build electric charging infrastructure for North America’s biggest school bus operator, First Student.

US car-maker Tesla is planning to begin work in three months on the world’s largest EV factory in northern Mexico, Reuters reports. Jesus Nava, the mayor of the Nuevo Leon…

Panasonic Energy has picked a joint venture of Turner Construction and Yates Construction to build a $4bn plant for electric vehicle batteries in De Soto, Kansas. The project will take…

Vietnamese EV maker VinFast said today that it would launch a tender for the construction of a $4bn assembly plant in North Carolina after obtaining one of the approvals it requires from regulators.

The Ford Motor Company has announced plans to build a $3.5bn electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in its home state of Michigan. Ford has committed to build nickel cobalt manganese…

Indian conglomerate Mahindra and Mahindra said today it was planning to build a $1.2bn electric vehicle (EV) assembly plant near the city of Pune in the state of Maharashtra. According…

Japanese manufacturer Nidec, which makes motors for electric vehicles (EVs), will build a $715m factory in Mexico, Nikkei Asia reports. The plant will make the “e-axle” drive system, which combines…

A joint venture between Japanese car maker Honda and the battery division of South Korea’s LG will invest $4.4bn in a battery factory in Fayette County, Ohio, midway between Cincinnati…

German auto-maker Volkswagen has given the green light to a €2bn electric vehicle (EV) plant at its home base of Wolfsburg-Warmenau in Lower Saxony.