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The announcement marks the single largest investment in advanced battery technology for hybrid and electric-drive vehicles ever made. Industry officials expect that this $2.4 billion investment, coupled with another $2.4 billion in cost-share from the award winners, will result directly in the creation tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the US battery and auto industries.
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Companies and universities in Michigan are receiving more than $1 billion of the grants. A123Systems and Johnson Controls will receive a total of approximately $550 million to establish a manufacturing base in the state for advanced north myrtle beach vacation rentals batteries, and two others, Compact Power and Dow Kokam, will receive a total of more than $300 million for manufacturing battery cells and materials.
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north myrtle beach vacation rentals • Educational programs for: Graduate, Undergraduate and Secondary Students; Teachers; Technicians; General Public • Partnering with: University of Notre Dame; Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI); Purdue University – Calumet; Indiana University – Northwest; Ivy Tech Community College
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• Educational programs for: Graduate, Undergraduate and Secondary Students; Teachers; Technicians; Mechanics; Emergency Responders; General Public • Partnering with: University of Central Missouri; Linn State Technical College; St. Louis Science Center; Smith Electric Vehicles US Corporation (SEV-US); Kokam America Inc.
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I m not entirely convinced that any of those battery chemistries evolve to get us to a 300 mile/charge electric car for the price of an Accord. If A123 was so great, why did LG Chem get the Volt business?
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We appreciate President Obama announcement of the largest-ever federal funding of the electric battery industry. This $2.4 billion is for manufacturing and deployment--not for research. Batteries are good enough already; further improvements will be icing on the cake. This program will significantly accelerate the availability of components for the new plug-in vehicles coming in the next three years. It will put thousands of vehicles on our roads. It boosts the electrification of larger heavy-duty vehicles. And it begins to demonstrate the feasibility of converting existing vehicles to plug in.
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