Autonomous & Electric Mobility

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Adhesives are crucial for assembling the sensors in advanced driver assistance systems.

LIBERTY, NC—Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina (TBMNC), Toyota’s first in-house battery manufacturing plant outside Japan, is ready to begin production and will start shipping batteries for North American electric vehicles in April.

New applications are powering vehicles on land, sea and air.

WOLFSBURG, Germany—Volkswagen AG plans to produce a low-cost, entry-level electric vehicle at its flagship factory here.

MARYSVILLE, OH—Honda Motor Co. has unveiled how it will mass-produce electric vehicles alongside hybrid and traditional internal combustion engine models at its flexible factory here.

GRAZ, Austria—Engineers at the Graz University of Technology have harnessed artificial intelligence technology to develop a way to streamline the amount of time it takes to develop next-generation power trains.

FONTANA, CA—ZM Trucks, a subsidiary of ZO Motors Co., plans to build medium-duty battery-powered trucks at a new 210,000-square-foot assembly plant here. 

COLUMBUS—Anduril Industries Inc. plans to build a large factory here to mass-produce autonomous vehicles for defense applications.

LAS VEGAS—University teams from around the world recently competed in a head-to-head race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway as part of the Indy Autonomous Challenge.

WASHINGTON—According to a new study by the Environmental Defense Fund, the majority of new EV manufacturing activity is located in 10 states.