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SALCHING, Germany—BMW and Encory have opened a new facility here to recycle batteries from electric vehicles.

COLQUITT, GA—Grupo Vialume, a manufacturer of reflective raised pavement markers, will invest $4.4 million to build a new assembly plant here, creating 150 new jobs over the next seven years. 

DETROIT—General Motors is the latest automaker to announce a big loss from its investments in electric vehicles.

LAS VEGAS—Boston Dynamics Inc.'s next-generation Atlas humanoid robot is currently in use at Hyundai’s assembly plant in Ellabell, GA.

WIXOM, MI—Automotive supplier Astemo Americas Inc. will invest $95 million to develop a new regional headquarters complex here.

LIUZHOU, China—SAIC-GM-Wuling has ramped up a new automotive production process that replaces the traditional assembly line with a fully flexible, AI-driven model.

SEOUL, South Korea—Hyundai Motor Group says it will deploy humanoid robots at its factories beginning in 2028.

To increase collaboration up and down the supply chain, a coalition of European automotive manufacturers created Catena-X, the first end-to-end, collaborative and open data ecosystem for the automotive industry.

The $100 million smart factory will employ 460 people and produce up to 20 railcars per month.

Spectro Physics designed a system to test eight batteries at a time.