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Panasonic has announced plans for a massive electric vehicle battery manufacturing facility in De Soto, Kan.

Production at U.S. factories declined in June for a second month, restrained by higher inventories and a softer economic outlook.

TOKYO — Toyota’s flagship model in Japan, the Crown, is going on sale around the world for the first time, including in the U.S.

The Georgia Department of Transportation will partner with real estate giant JLL on a plan to expand electric vehicle charging stations across the state and obtain federal funding to help do it.

Cummins Inc. announced Jennifer Rumsey will become CEO and president effective Aug. 1. Rumsey will become the first woman to hold the post at the world’s largest independent engine maker and only the seventh CEO in the company’s 103-year history.

Citing inflation and supply chain bottlenecks, transportation stakeholders called on congressional policymakers to help remedy current economic conditions.

While Chinese ports are close to recovering, transit times to the United States have remained elevated, according to supply chain visibility company FourKites.

With fuel prices affecting the commercial transportation sector and motorists, senior congressional Democrats called on colleagues to boost access to alternative sources of energy.

Efforts by national freight rail carriers to increase efficiency are having the opposite effect, a union official said July 12. Demoralized workers are leaving the industry, causing delays and damage to the national supply chain, said Greg Regan, president of the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO.

With an Aug. 1 deadline looming, states are finalizing their electric vehicle infrastructure deployment plans.