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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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  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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  Ford Starts the First Moving Assembly Line for a Complete Automobile

  Highland Park Ford Plant, Highland Park, Michigan, USAFord·…

  

  Starts 12/01/1913CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE112.8 years agoConfirmed per History.com^[3]'s "Ford's^[2] assembly line starts rolling" entry, which dates the first complete-automobile moving assembly line to December 1, 1913 at Ford's Highland Park plant.

  On December 1, 1913, Ford Motor Company extended its moving line at the Highland Park plant to assemble a complete Model T chassis start to finish, cutting build time from over 12 hours to about 93 minutes.

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  Volvo Assembles Its First F7 Truck at New River Valley

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  09/01/1982 - 09/30/1982ESTIMATED76% CONFIDENCE44.1 years agoVolvo Trucks^[4]' own 2018 press coverage dates the first North American-built Volvo truck to September 1982 without naming an exact day, so the pin spans the month.

  In September 1982, Volvo Trucks built the first Volvo-branded truck ever assembled in North America, a Volvo F7, at its newly acquired New River Valley plant in Dublin, Virginia. The factory has produced every Volvo truck sold in North America ever since.

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  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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  BMW Rolls Out Its First Berlin-Built Motorcycle, an R 60/2

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  Starts 09/06/1966CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE60.0 years agoBMW Group's^[3] own Plant Berlin history page and its BMW Classic blog both state the first Berlin-built motorcycle, an R 60/2, rolled off the line on September 6, 1966.

  BMW's newly built assembly line at its Berlin-Spandau plant produces its first complete motorcycle, an R 60/2 with a swinging-fork chassis, kicking off the relocation of BMW motorcycle manufacturing from Munich to Berlin.

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  Starts 09/09/2019CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE7.0 years agoPorsche's^[3] own newsroom release, 'Punctual start of production for the Porsche Taycan,' states production of first customer vehicles began September 9, 2019.

  Porsche began series production of its first all-electric sports car, the Taycan, at a newly built factory extension in Zuffenhausen, Germany.

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  Boeing handed over the first 747-8 Freighter to launch customer Cargolux at its Everett, Washington widebody plant, putting the largest version of the 747 into commercial cargo service.

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  Pierce Manufacturing Launches Phase I of Its High Flow Production Line

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  Starts 03/25/2026CONFIRMED77% CONFIDENCE182 days agoFire Engineering's^[3] industry-news report dates Pierce Manufacturing's Phase I High Flow production line launch at its Appleton campus to March 25, 2026.

  Pierce Manufacturing brought Phase I of its redesigned High Flow custom chassis production line online at its Appleton, Wisconsin campus, cutting chassis lead times by more than three months. The line is part of a $150 million-plus modernization of Pierce's Wisconsin, Florida, and Tennessee plants.

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