Toyota has decided to locate a new automotive battery plant at the Greensboro-Randolph Megasite in North Carolina’s Randolph County.

Toyota chose the site based on the availability of renewable energy, local support, on-site rail, and proximity to highways, four airports and two seaports. Together with lithium producer Toyota Tsusho, Toyota is planning to spend $1.29 billion on the plant as part of a $3.4-billion investment in US automotive battery manufacturing the company announced in October.

The company says it is “committed to using 100% renewable energy at this new facility to produce the batteries.” When production begins in 2025, Toyota says TBMNC’s four production lines will each make enough lithium-ion batteries for 200,000 electrified vehicles per year. In the future, Toyota anticipates TBMNC expanding to six production lines that would manufacture enough batteries for 1.2 million electrified vehicles per year.

Bosch has started volume production of SiC semiconductors, and plans to expand its production capacity to a unit volume running into the hundreds of millions. The company is also working on a second generation of more efficient SiC chips. 

To meet steadily increasing demand for these semiconductors, Bosch added 1,000 square meters to the clean-room space at its wafer fabrication facility in Reutlingen in 2021. Another 3,000 square meters will be added to house production facilities for manufacturing the semiconductors. Compared with today’s 150-millimeter wafers, Bosch intends to manufacture on a larger wafer size and take advantage of economies of scale. 

“The future for silicon carbide semiconductors is bright. We want to become a global leader in the production of SiC chips for electromobility,” said Harald Kroeger, Bosch Board Member. “Silicon carbide power semiconductors make particularly efficient use of energy. This material’s advantages really come to the fore in energy-intensive applications such as electromobility. By producing on larger wafers, we can manufacture significantly more chips in one production run and thus supply more customers.” 

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Coal production is forecast to reach an all-time high in 2022, and then after a couple of years, plateau as demand flattens, according to the latest annual market report from the International Energy Agency (IEA), released today.

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