Charging Up the Electric Vehicle and Battery Sector
1 Jul 2023
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The automotive industry is on the cusp of its most massive transition in generations, as gasoline-powered vehicles make way for electric vehicles, or EVs. By the middle of the next decade, many if not most new cars produced will be electric, and that means a huge shift in the manufacturing base and supply chain.
No surprise, then, that more than half a dozen of this year’s Project of the Year awards are related to EVs or the batteries that will power them. The projects can be found all over the country, from Kansas to the Carolinas, bearing only a few names that are likely to be familiar and many that are relatively new to the motor vehicle world.
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