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Ford Scales Back Michigan Battery Plant Investments

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Ford has said it will restart construction on the electric vehicle battery facility it’s building in Marshall, Michigan, after pausing work when the UAW strike kicked off a couple months ago. As stated previously, we have been evaluating BlueOval Battery Park Michigan in Marshall.

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Gotion to advance ahead on $2.4B battery plant in Michigan nearest nationwide safety evaluate

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Critics have scorned the corporate’s ties to the Chinese language Communist Birthday party, pointing to its articles of affiliation as a big crimson flag. The immense EV battery plant initiatives in Michigan have drawn scrutiny from the native communities to Washington, D.C., Ford Motor Co. billion battery plant in Marshall.

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GM’s Volt Program = $700m

Revenge of the Electric Car

Here is the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. General Motors will invest $336m in a Detroit-area assembly plant, bringing to $700m total investment in eight Michigan facilities to begin mass production of the rechargeable Chevrolet Volt electric car in late 2010. “We Michigan has approved $135.2m

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. However, there has been public pushback over how to pay for the plan and its push to decrease personal driving by imposing a mileage tax.

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Westwater Resources is building a facility in Alabama to process one of the largest graphite deposits in the US

Charged EVs

Now, if you look at just the materials half of the $7,500 tax credit, there’s $3,750 available, and graphite is on a short list of critical materials, along with lithium, cobalt, nickel and a few others. If you do the math and make some assumptions, it means $550-600 of the total tax credit is attributable just to graphite.

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Ford receives Federal backlash following Chinese battery agreement

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As part of this $50 billion electrification plan, Ford is building ten new production facilities in the United States, one of them, a battery production facility in Western Michigan, was announced Monday. What do you think of the article? Specifically, Sen. Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns?

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Tennessee, Nissan and TVA forge a path for electric car | www.tennessean.com | The Tennessean

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Chambers Williams III • THE TENNESSEAN• April 26, 2009 Print this page E-mail this article Share Del.icio.us Postal Service with a fleet of 250 all-electric Chrysler Town & Country minivans in Michigan, North Carolina and the New York City area beginning later this year. See instructions for fixing the problem. No gasoline.