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LG Electronics has opened its first electric vehicle (EV) charger facility outside of South Korea — in Fort Worth, Texas — to capture a share of North America’s competitive EV charging market.  Its new EV charging station factory, spanning 59,202 square feet, has the capacity to produce more than 10,000 chargers per year, LG said in the company’s statement Monday. LG has started manufacturing 11-kilowatt EV chargers in Texas. It will initiate assembling chargers with a capacity of 175 kilowatts…

BERLIN (AP) — Tesla says it’s temporarily halting most production at its German factory because of attacks in the Red Sea, a vital global shipping corridor. The electric vehicle maker said in a statement Thursday night that its factory near Berlin, which makes Model Y vehicles and batteries, will pause from Jan. 29 to Feb. 11. It’s a fresh sign of how the hostilities in the Mideast are disrupting global manufacturing supply chains, with shipping companies reporting that they’re being forced to reroute vessels…

LG Electronics just launched its first EV charger factory in the US, and it has an annual capacity of 12,000 units. The new 100,000-square-foot EV charger factory is in Fort Worth, Texas, where Seoul-headquartered LG Electronics already has a 1 million-square-foot distribution center for consumer electronics and home appliances. Starting this month, the first EV chargers assembled in Fort Worth will be 11 kW Level 2 chargers with a standard SAE J1772 connector. They’re designed for wall…

An aerial view shows the Tesla Fremont Factory in Fremont, California on February 10, 2022.Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty ImagesTesla is rolling out "market adjustment" pay increases this month to many of its factory workers across the U.S., according to notices posted at the company's vehicle assembly plant in Fremont, California.Bloomberg first reported on the posters.An employee in Fremont confirmed that the 2024 pay rate information was distributed at the site, and that increases were recently implemented by the company.…

Tesla cars being shipped to Europe Tesla will shut down its Berlin gigafactory for about two weeks, from January 29 to February 11, due to a lack of components as a result of a Red Sea blockade, according to Reuters. The Red Sea is home to important shipping lanes, particularly between Asia and the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal in Egypt. The Canal transports about an eighth of global trade and a third of global container traffic, and is particularly important for shipping…

First Solar, the largest solar panel maker in the US, today announced that it has broken ground on India’s first fully vertically integrated solar plant. The factory, which is in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, has an annual nameplate capacity of 3.3 gigawatts (GW) and directly employs around 1,000 people. It will produce First Solar’s Series 7 solar panels that are developed at its US R&D centers and optimized for the Indian market.  This new facility has some pretty special…

A UK woman’s missing cat appears to have done the most cat thing imaginable—spending years on his own just 900 feet away from home. The missing Bengal cat, named Duke, was discovered leading a new life in a nearby factory seven years after he went missing.Are You Rich Enough to Buy This Folding TV?The not-so-homeward-bound tale was first reported by British outlet SWNS this week. According to SWNS, Corby resident Stephanie Barstow bought 6-week-old Duke and his brother Nero in May 2015. In January 2017, soon after a…

Vinfast is setting up its first EV factory in India, in the state of Tanil Nadu. For the first phase of setting up a factory and getting started, Vinfast has already allocated $500 million, and is expected to create a factory with a manufacturing capacity of 1,50,000 cars…

Vinfast is looking to expand overseas but has had a rocky start. Vietnamese carmaker VinFast said it will build its first electric vehicle factory in India as part of a planned $2 billion investment, as it looks to expand into the rapidly growing market.…

Wonka might be making the headlines right now, but it’s still got a long way to go to become as beloved as the 1971 hit Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Based on Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the movie was an instant classic, and its reputation only continues to grow. This is especially true of Gene Wilder’s performance as Willy Wonka, the magical chocolatier who seemed to both adore and despise children in classic unsettling Dahl style (and who has proved an enduring meme icon). If you’re…