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GM Is Building a Battery Plant
The American automaker, General Motors, does not plan buying lithium-ion batteries for electric cars from other manufacturers, the company has announced that there will be a plant built by them specifically for this purpose.
GM has announced that $43 million will be invested on a plant in Brownstown Township, Michigan which will build battery packs for Chevrolet Volt and “other extended-range electric vehicles”. This will be the first facility of this kind in the U.S.
The work on the plant has already started. The equipment is being delivered to the place. The funds come mostly from local and state incentives and Recovery Act funding from the U.S. Department of Energy.
The production should start in the fourth quarter of 2010, right before the Volts will start being assembled in the beginning of 2011. The facility is going to provide more than 100 advanced technology jobs.
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