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DOE announces $1.7 billion in grants to convert facilities for EV production and support US auto workers – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Auto plants around the country are in danger of downsizing or shutting down altogether, and helping these facilities to retool for EV production instead makes economic sense. million to convert the shuttered Belvidere Assembly plant to build EVs, and $250 million to convert its Indiana Transmission Plant in Kokomo to produce EV components.

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DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

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Demonstrate plug‐in electric vehicles through local showcases in key markets throughout major metropolitan areas in seven Midwest states: Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota. American Lung Association of the Upper Midwest. Drive Oregon. General Motors. HRL Laboratories, LLC. 1,400,260.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Partnering with Alcoa, Duke Energy, Google.org, Johnson Controls Indiana startup plans to unveil vehicle May 2009 at EVS-24 in Norway; mass production in 2012. We hope Ford will, and then move ahead!

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Former CEO of American Electric Power Dies at 94

Cars That Think

He was awarded an honorary doctorate in business administration by Indiana University in Bloomington. DeWitt downsized his operations after an economic recession hit the United States in 1975. He also was a member of the IEEE–Eta Kappa Nu honor society. He closed the business in 2018.

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