Celebrating TAEBC’s 2024 accomplishments By Cortney Piper, Executive Director  Energy is ever present in our lives. We’ll always need it and we’ll always need it to be cleaner, safer, more […]

Episode Description Host Cortney Piper interviews Dr. Chris Burns, Chief Executive Officer of NOVONIX, a leading battery materials and technology company with operations in the United States and Canada. Recently, DOE awarded NOVONIX […]

Episode Description In this episode, Host Cortney Piper interviews Monica Walker, Manager of Renewables & Energy Strategy at General Motors. GM has a bold vision for the future. One with zero crashes, zero […]

Episode Description In what is likely Host Cortney Piper’s favorite interview to date, she interviews Liliana Ramirez, Global Director of Workforce Development at Ford. Ramirez is responsible for using cutting-edge strategies to build […]

Episode Description Host Cortney Piper interviews Gina Maria Bonini, Vice President and General Manager of Advanced Thermal Systems at Modine. They are headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin, but the EV component manufacturing occurs at […]

Episode Description In the first episode of Season 2, Host Cortney Piper interviews Julian Spector, senior reporter at Canary Media, an independent, nonprofit newsroom covering the transition to clean energy and solutions to […]

Companies across the world are betting on the future of electric vehicles — and many are staking those bets in Middle Tennessee. In fact, Tennessee’s four largest business investments ever are tied to electric vehicles. The second-biggest such deal, for a $3.2B investment from LG Chem in Clarksville, was just revealed, trailing only Ford’s $5.6 billion investment west of Nashville.

By Cortney Piper, Executive Director  It has been a monumental year for the advanced energy sector in Tennessee. Ford broke ground on BlueOval City, its largest and most advanced auto […]

Contact: Elena Brennan | [email protected] | 269-377-4983 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – As part of its mini-series on transportation electrification, the Tennessee Advanced Energy Business Council (TAEBC) released a bonus episode busting […]

For the next few episodes, we will explore the question: “How can we electrify Tennessee?” In the first episode in this mini series, we will discuss how Tennessee plans to […]

By Tricia Martínez, Managing Director of the Techstars Industries of the Future Accelerator The future of the mobility industry is 100% electric. Imagine a future where electrification of everything – […]

The Tennessee Advanced Energy Business Council will hold a virtual Statewide Roundtable on Thursday, July 14 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET. / 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. CT. The theme of this year’s roundtable is automotive innovation.