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GE to expand sodium-halide battery plant with $70M investment

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GE will invest an additional $70 million to expand its sodium-halide battery manufacturing plant in New York, which is part of the company’s new Energy Storage business. The battery plant has received support from state and local government in New York, where GE has done business for 130 years.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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In the United States, for example, there are more than 49,000 public charging stations , and it is now possible to drive an EV from New York to California using public charging networks. vehicle-to-grid technologies that exploit the installed base of EV batteries. All said, EVs present both a challenge and an opportunity.