Automotive Assembly

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PLANO, TX—Toyota Motor Corp. is expanding an on-site childcare program at its U.S. factories.

Most of this spending, about 74% is directed toward battery plants, though investment in assembly plants abroad is also rising.

The HyJoin process uses induction heating to adhere plastic to metal.

Automated line assembles multi-material enclosures for EV batteries.

LOUISVILLE—Ford Motor Co. plans to build a midsized electric pick-up truck at its assembly plant here using a new production system.

LOUISVILLE, KY— The initiative will debut the new Ford Universal EV Platform and Ford Universal EV Production System—designed to produce a family of affordable, high-quality, software-defined electric vehicles at scale.

Operations are scheduled to begin in the early 2030s, though the specific production models have not yet been decided.

An important and challenging part of the assembly process is attaching the sensor to a carrier.

LONG BEACH, CA—Ford Motor Company has launched a new 250,000-square-foot Electric Vehicle Development Campus in Long Beach, California, transforming a historic automotive and military site into the company’s primary EV innovation hub on the West Coast.

Amazon subsidiary Zoox, has just opened a new assembly plant in northern California to mass-produce robotaxis.