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Boat manufactures around the world are ramping up production of electric watercraft ranging from pontoons to speedboats. They’re turning to batteries to produce emission-free products that deliver on range and speed.

PLYMOUTH, MI—Mahle Powertrain USA is building a $4 million dynamometer facility here for electric vehicles.

NOVI, MI—Responding to unprecedented growth in battery manufacturing, ABB has developed an agile production process that aims to reduce bottlenecks.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden—Volvo Trucks has begun producing electric trucks at its Tuve assembly plant here.

Boat manufactures around the world are ramping up production of electric watercraft ranging from pontoons to speedboats. They’re turning to batteries to produce emission-free products that deliver on range and speed.

GHENT, Belgium—Volvo Trucks has opened its first battery assembly plant here.

WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden has signed the much-anticipated Inflation Reduction Act, which promises to spur domestic investment in electric vehicle technology. The bipartisan legislation includes automotive manufacturing and consumer purchase incentives to expand vehicle electrification in the United States.

CHICAGO—Amazon has unveiled its new package delivery van produced by Rivian Automotive Inc. at its assembly plant in Normal, IL. The 23-foot-long electric vehicles are hitting the streets in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, San Diego, Seattle, St. Louis and other elsewhere.

LORDSTOWN, OH—Foxconn has signed an agreement to manufacture Monarch Tractor’s battery packs and electric agricultural equipment at its assembly plant here.

San Diego has one of the richest aerospace heritages of any city in America. Ryan Aeronautical Co. built Charles Lindbergh’s “Spirit of St. Louis” aircraft in the mid-1920s. During World War II, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. mass-produced planes such as the B-24 Liberator and the PBY Catalina.