up truck―to the Japanese market from 2026. Toyota has decided to reintroduce Camry and Highlander (known as Kluger in Japan), which were previously sold in the Japanese market until 2023 and 2007 respectively. Camry, a top seller in the United States for many years, is produced at the Georgetown, Kentucky plant. The Highlander is produced at the Princeton, Indiana plant, while the Tundra is manufactured at the San Antonio, Texas plant. Toyota s...

News  Updated at: 2025/12/19

Anthro Energy to build USD 42 million battery materials plant in Louisville, Kentucky On December 12, Anthro Energy Inc., an advanced materials and battery developer, announced plans to locate a new manufacturing facility in Louisville, Kentucky, investing over USD 42 million and creating 110 new jobs. The new manufacturing facility will focus on advanced electrolyte production. Anthro Energy has developed a proprietary injectable phase-change e...

News  Updated at: 2025/12/19

se across the southeast U.S. T.RAD is a global manufacturer of heat exchangers for internal combustion engines, electric vehicle Battery Thermal Management Systems (BTMS), and fuel cell cooling systems. T.RAD North America, a subsidiary of Japanese manufacturer T.RAD. headquartered in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, was founded in 1988 as CoPAR, Inc., a joint venture between Toyo Radiator Co., Ltd. of Japan and a U.S. manufacturing partner. (Tennessee De...

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GM Bowling Green plant holiday break shutdown extended to four weeks Workers at the GM Bowling Green plant in Kentucky will get an extended holiday break this year as the facility is currently scheduled for a four-week shutdown, as opposed to the traditional two-week break. The Bowling Green plant is the exclusive production facility for the Chevrolet Corvette since 1981. The Bowling Green assembly plant will be idled on December 15th, not to reo...

News  Updated at: 2025/12/18

Ford transitions EV strategy and plants in Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan On December 15, Ford announced a new revised strategy for its EV and ICE efforts that will enable the company to face the changing marketplace and accelerate margin improvements across its Ford Model e, Ford Pro and Ford Blue divisions, as well as launch a new energy storage business. Ford said the moves will begin narrowing the financial losses for its Model e EV uni...

News  Updated at: 2025/12/17

ure partner Ford mutually agreed "to restructure their U.S. EV battery manufacturing joint venture, BlueOval SK" as SK On directs its business to focus on growth areas including energy storage systems. As a result of this restructuring, the BlueOval SK Battery Park (two battery plants) in Glendale, Kentucky will become wholly owned by a Ford subsidiary. The start of production of mid-size electric pickups at the Louisville plant, which will use b...

News  Updated at: 2025/12/12

Toyota Boshoku America opens smart manufacturing facility in Hopkinsville, Kentucky On December 9, Toyota Boshoku America (TBA), Inc. announced the grand opening of its newest manufacturing facility in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Toyota Boshoku Western Kentucky (TBWK). This marks the company’s first-ever “smart plant,” as a major step forward in innovation, sustainability, and regional economic growth. The new 354,340-square-foot facility, loca...

News  Updated at: 2025/12/11

generation hybrid transaxles and rear motor stators beginning in 2027. The move includes new shift patterns for greater efficiency. The plant in Buffalo assembles more than one million engines, transmissions and hybrid transaxles annually and represents a USD 3.3 billion investment.    • Toyota Kentucky: USD 204.4 million will add 82 jobs and install an all-new machining line for 4-cylinder hybrid-compatible engines, beginning in 2027. The Ge...

News  Updated at: 2025/11/19

Akfa Group, Uzbekistan, to build car component plant in US On November 10, multiple sources reported that Akfa Group, one of Uzbekistan’s leading industrial conglomerates, started construction of a large-scale manufacturing facility in Kentucky, in collaboration with a Turkish partner. It will manufacture aluminum products, car parts, solar panel components, etc. In the first year, it will attract USD 105 million in investment. Overall, the tot...

News  Updated at: 2025/11/14

14 battery production lines and serve as Toyota’s hub for developing and producing lithium-ion batteries for its portfolio of electrified vehicles, including hybrid electric, battery electric, and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. The plant has initially begun shipping HEV modules to both Toyota Kentucky (TMMK) and Mazda Toyota Manufacturing (MTMUS) in Alabama. Additional production lines at TBMNC are set to launch by 2030.  Batteries assembl...

News  Updated at: 2025/11/13

89,854 units to 52,956.    • Ford F-150 production dropped about 35% at the Dearborn Truck plant, going from 25,575 units in September to 16,731 in October, while F-150 output at the Kansas City Assembly plant fell from 26,817 to 13,577, or around 50%.    • Ford Super Duty production at the Kentucky Truck plant fell 39%, from 34,507 units to 21,057, and at the Ohio Assembly plant, production numbers declined around 46% month-over-month, f...

News  Updated at: 2025/11/05

t is largely a symbolic vote that comes just days before the Supreme Court hears oral arguments about President Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose the “reciprocal” tariffs.  In a statement released earlier this week, Republican Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said tariffs “make both building and buying in America more expensive. The economic harms of trade wars are not the exception to history, b...

News  Updated at: 2025/10/31

onomy with up to a manufacturer estimated 44 MPG combined rating (FWD model). Hybrid models also add power with 236 net combined system horsepower on AWD models and 226 horsepower on FWD models, an 11% increase over the prior gas FWD model. The RAV4 HEV models will be built at plants in Georgetown, Kentucky; Cambridge and Woodstock, Ontario; and PHEV models will be assembled in Japan. Previously, about 80% of RAV4s destined for the U.S. market ha...

News  Updated at: 2025/10/25

uge Electric Vehicle Center will remain paused as Ford prioritizes gas and hybrid F-Series trucks, which are more profitable for Ford and use less aluminum. All of the hourly employees at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center will transfer next door to Dearborn Truck Plant to join the new third crew.  Kentucky Truck Plant aims to increase its F-Series Super Duty assembly line speed by one job per hour, or more than 5,000 trucks per year, with the ad...

News  Updated at: 2025/10/24

already paused production of several other models as a result of the fire, but now, it’s impacting Ford’s most important vehicle. The list of affected vehicles so far includes the Ford F-150 Lightning at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center, Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator production at the Kentucky Truck Plant, and production of the Ford Escape and Lincoln Corsair at the Louisville Assembly plant. Ford is working to mitigate the impacts ...

News  Updated at: 2025/10/22

r Duty pickups in the U.S. due to an issue with the 360-degree camera that may not display a rearview image properly in certain lighting conditions. The rearview camera image display recall covers the 2020-22 Ford F-250 Super Duty, Ford F-350 Super Duty and Ford F-450 Super Duty trucks built at the Kentucky Truck plant between October 28, 2020, and December 23, 2022, according to the U.S. National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHT...

News  Updated at: 2025/10/21

Ford Expedition, Lincoln Navigator production paused in Kentucky after aluminum plant fire Ford informed workers at its Kentucky Truck Plant that it will be pausing production of the Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator beginning the week of October 14, due to issues with its aluminum supply chain used in its body panels. The pause is currently slated to last one week, according to the memo, but Ford is also pulling forward scheduled downtime fr...

News  Updated at: 2025/10/16

Toyota Kentucky adds solar panel field as it prepares to produce EVs On October 10, Toyota announced it has advanced its environmental sustainability efforts with the launch of a new solar panel installation at its flagship manufacturing facility in Georgetown, Kentucky.  The nearly 30-acre solar field is expected to generate approximately 15 million kWh of clean electricity per year, enough to power 1,400 average U.S. homes for a year. The init...

News  Updated at: 2025/10/15

Ford Kentucky Truck plant expansion plans revealed While Ford has already announced it will be investing USD 2 billion to retool and expand its Louisville Assembly plant by 52,000 additional square feet to build a yet-to-be-revealed mid-size EV pickup starting in 2027 using a new production process, it will not be the company’s only plant to see investment and upgrading in that state. The Ford Kentucky Truck plant will also be getting some upgr...

News  Updated at: 2025/10/10

nd are expected to be permanent." The layoffs will begin on October 1 and end December 1 and mostly impact engineering jobs, lab techs, analysts, designers and program managers, the WARN notice said. The company will also lay off an additional five people at the Akebono Brake Elizabethtown plant in Kentucky. (Detroit Free Press article on September 23, 2025)...

News  Updated at: 2025/09/25