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LG Chem to establish new electrolyte production plant in Michigan

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SB LiMotive recently purchased Cobasys, a nickel metal hydride battery firm based in Orion. Her previous missions to Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan and Sweden have resulted in 49 companies announcing nearly $2 billion in new investment in Michigan and more than 20,000 new or retained jobs.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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This is key." ( Wall Street Journal ) 1/17/08 The handful in demonstration service now use nickel-metal hydride batteries and will shift to lithium as Toyota begins putting 400 plug-in Priuses into demonstration service worldwide beginning late next year or early 2010. (

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