Daimler begins construction on a $562 million lithium-ion battery factory in Germany

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  Battery-making capacity built by lithium-ion battery megafactories will triple by 2020

  

  01/01/2020 - 07/22/2020CONFIRMED73% CONFIDENCE6.7 years agoHappened as dated, per the pin description: "…hem, Foxconn, BYD, and Boston Power are complete, we will have a total capacity in 2020 of around 12…"

  Today’s production capacity is approximately 35 GWh worldwide. However, once Tesla’s Gigafactory and the other facilities being built by LG Chem, Foxconn, BYD, and Boston Power are complete, we will have a total capacity in 2020 of around 122 GWh. This exponential ramping up of production capabilities proves that companies are serious about scale and reducing costs.

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• Semiconductors09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Bosch Opens €1 Billion Chip Fab in Dresden

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  Starts 06/07/2021CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE5.3 years agoBosch's own media release, "Bosch opens chip factory of the future in Dresden," states the fab was opened on 7 June 2021.^[1]

  Bosch opened its new 300mm wafer fab in Dresden, a roughly €1 billion, highly automated plant producing sensors and microchips for cars and consumer electronics.

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• Energy07/23/2017@ThePinGang

  Inside Tesla's $5 Billion Gigafactory - Visual Capitalist

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  07/29/2016 - 01/02/2018UNVERIFIED41% CONFIDENCE10.2 years ago

  The $5 Billion Tesla Gigfactory will set a new precedent for economies of scale in battery production, creating demand for graphite, cobalt, and lithium. The name gigafactory comes from the plant's planned annual battery production capacity of 35 gigawatt-hours, which Tesla said on Wednesday it would achieve by 2018.

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• Semiconductors09/23/2026@TechDesk

  TSMC Starts Volume Production of 2nm (N2) Chips in Kaohsiung

  TSMC·…TSMC Fab22 P1, 園區北路, Nanzi District, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan

  Starts 12/31/2025ESTIMATED73% CONFIDENCE266 days agoTSMC's^[1][2] 2nm page says N2 "has started volume production in 4Q25 as planned" and its 2025 annual report that it "entered high volume manufacturing in 4Q'25"; neither names the day, so the quarter's last day stands in.

  TSMC's first nanosheet-transistor node, N2, entered volume production in the fourth quarter of 2025 as planned, starting at Fab 22 in Kaohsiung, with Fab 20 in Hsinchu as its second 2nm fab.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Siemens Unveils Its Vectron Locomotive at InnoTrans

  Messe Berlin, Messedamm 22, 14055 Berlin, GermanySiemens

  

  Starts 09/23/2010CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE16.0 years agoRailway press coverage of InnoTrans 2010 states Siemens revealed the Vectron family, presenting four prototypes to the public on 23 September 2010.^[1]

  Siemens revealed its Vectron locomotive family, presenting prototypes to the public at the InnoTrans rail trade fair in Berlin. Vectron electric and hybrid freight locomotives are built at Siemens' Munich-Allach factory and now haul freight for operators including DB Cargo.

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• Automotive09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Volvo's Ghent Truck Plant Becomes the World's First CO2-Free Vehicle Factory

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  Starts 09/20/2007CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE19.0 years agoVolvo Group's^[2][3] own press release, dated 20 September 2007, states the Ghent plant became "the first vehicle plant in the world that is completely free from carbon dioxide (CO2)."

  Volvo Trucks turned its Ghent, Belgium plant fully carbon-free in September 2007, powering assembly of the FH-series with onsite wind turbines, biomass, and bio-oil heating instead of fossil fuels.

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• Mining09/21/2026@BuildDesk

  Thacker Pass Finishes Its First Phase

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  Starts 12/31/2027ESTIMATED70% CONFIDENCEin 1.3 yearsLithium Americas targets mechanical completion of Phase 1 in "late 2027", with the production ramp following in 2028. Only a half-year is given, so the pin takes the last day of 2027.^[1]

  Lithium Americas targets mechanical completion of Thacker Pass Phase 1 in late 2027, a 40,000-tonne-a-year lithium carbonate plant in northern Nevada.

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• Automotive09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Ford Rolls Out Its First Vehicle From the New Cologne-Niehl Plant

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  Starts 05/04/1931CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE95.4 years agoWikipedia's^[2] Ford Germany article states the Cologne plant began production on 4 May 1931, after Henry Ford and Konrad Adenauer laid the foundation stone on 2 October 1930.

  Ford-Werke produced its first vehicle, a Model A-based truck, at the new Cologne-Niehl plant, the German headquarters Henry Ford himself helped establish with Mayor Konrad Adenauer the year before. The site grew into the mini-city-sized mega factory shown in this documentary.

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  Starts 01/01/2020CONFIRMED78% CONFIDENCE6.7 years agoHappened as dated, per arstechnica.com^[1]: "Volkswagen unveils the I.D., a long-range electric car due in 2020 250-…"

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• Semiconductors09/23/2026@TechDesk

  TSMC's Dresden Fab (ESMC) Starts Production

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  Starts 12/31/2027ESTIMATED73% CONFIDENCEin 1.3 yearsTSMC's^[1][6] founding release gives a bound, not a day: "production targeted to begin by the end of 2027"; at the September 2026 topping-out the partners still said production starts in 2027 and Hardwareluxx^[3] reported tool installation "bis Ende 2027", after which the first chips follow - so 31 December 2027, estimated.

  ESMC, TSMC's EUR 10 billion joint venture with Bosch, Infineon and NXP, is due to start production at its Dresden fab by the end of 2027 - Europe's first FinFET-capable foundry, making 28/22nm and 16/12nm chips mainly for cars and industry.

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• Automotive09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Porsche Opens Its Expanded Leipzig Plant for Macan Production

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  Starts 02/11/2014CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE12.6 years agoAutomotive trade press dates the formal opening of the expanded Leipzig plant for Macan production to 11 February 2014.^[1]

  Porsche formally opened its expanded Leipzig factory, adding a body shop and paint shop so the plant could build the Macan compact SUV in-house rather than shipping bodies in from Germany's other Porsche site. The plant has been Porsche's most precise production line ever since.

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• Energy09/23/2026@EnergyDesk

  Base Electron's 1.2 GW Gas Plant for Applied Digital Goes Online

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  Starts 12/31/2030DELAYED2 years late76% CONFIDENCEin 4.3 yearsA target year, per bismarcktribune.com^[1]: Base Electron's Tyler Hammond said that if the permit is approved "construction would commence in the second quarter of 2027 and the plant would be operational in 2030"; a year alone is dated to its last day.

  The 1,200 MW gas-fired plant Babcock & Wilcox is building for Base Electron near Center, North Dakota, to power Applied Digital's AI data centres is now due to run in 2030, after B&W first promised power by the end of 2028.

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