Ford Motor Company plans to invest $450 million to consolidate its electric car program in south east Michigan, bringing in approximately 1000 new jobs. The new jobs will primarily be in manufacturing lithium ion batteries, and some of these jobs are being brought to the US from Mexico. An additional 8000 jobs will be saved [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 26, 2009
Vice President Biden is expected to announce on Tuesday that Delaware has struck a deal with electric car maker Fisker Automotivethat will bring in $175 million and 2000 jobs. Fiskerwill reopen and retool a plant previously owned by General Motors under an agreement that will give Fisker unspecified tax incentives. The plant will [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 16, 2009
General Motors will invest $43 million in Brownstown Township, Michigan, to create a plant to manufacture lithium-ion battery packs for the Chevrolet Volt. The plant will create more than 100 advanced-technology jobs. Production is expected to begin in 2010. GM is getting $241 million in Federal, state and local incentives. General Motors Corporation is a global automaker founded [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 6, 2009
ECOtality and subsidiary Electric Transportation Engineering (eTec) will get $100 million in federal stimulus funds to build an electric vehicle charging infrastructure, in partnership with Nissan. The firms will build networks of charging stations in 12 cities nationwide, including eTec’s home town of Phoenix. The firm expects to create 750 jobs there, and 5,000 new jobs [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Ford Motor Company, one of the beleaguered “Big Three” automakers, will spend $550 million to upgrade a plant in Wayne, Michigan to manufacture compact and electric cars. The automaker says the plant conversion will create 3,200 jobs. The facility will manufacture the compant Ford Focus, and batteries for the electric Focus. The new cars will start production [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 13, 2009
Kentucky officials and The National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries are working to bring a $600 million manufacturing campus to Hardin County. The Alliance chose Kentucky over seven other states as the potential home of the complex. If funding is secured, the plant would create up to 2,000 jobs. The proposed plant would build lithium-ion batteries for [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 26, 2009
Smith Electric Vehicles US will announce tomorrow the construction of an assembly plant in Kansas City, Missouri. The US-British consortium expects to employ 200 people manufacturing all-electric powered delivery vans. The assembly plant and support operations are expected to occupy existing buildings for now. The average starting wage will be $44,236 annually, and the facility will employ 200 [...]
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Monday, January 11, 2010
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