Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2010

A123 Systems has added more than 50 corporate and research and development jobs in Massachusetts in the last year associated with its expanded US manufacturing capacity in Michigan. Under the terms of the MassCEC financing, A123 will double its Massachusetts employment to more than 500 by 2014.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2009

The National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries (NAATBatt) ( earlier post ) has selected a site in Hardin County, Kentucky to build a more than $600-million automotive lithium-ion battery plant. Kentucky was selected over Texas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Most days, most cars are going to have lots of extra battery capacity,” said Mr. Kempton, noting that on average, American automobiles get driven for just one hour each day. Which means we would be extremely vunerable to Bolivia for our transportation needs, to a degree which we have never been to a foreign country. — Bill 7.

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

As a result of the lockdown, automobile production ground to a halt in several leading car manufacturing countries. In Germany, statistics from the Federal Motor Transport Authority reveal that total car registrations in March fell by 38% while fully electric cars actually grew by 56% and hybrids by 208%.

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