Articles Tagged with ''electric vehicle manufacturing''

HOLLAND, MI—LG Chem’s battery assembly plant here has completed preproduction testing and begun shipping batteries for the Chevrolet Volt.

SMYRNA, TN—A good, old-fashioned price war may be just what’s needed to give a jolt to the electric vehicle market in North America. Nissan, Ford and GM have each lowered the price of their electric vehicles by thousands of dollars, spurring increases in production.

OAK RIDGE, TN—Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are studying ways to reuse electric vehicle batteries after they are spent.

LIBBY, MT—LiV Golf Cars is turning an old lumber mill here into a new assembly plant that could employ 45 people in three years.

GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, MI—Magna E-Car Systems’ creation of a new assembly plant here helped Michigan add 14,600 manufacturing jobs in 2012, according to Manufacturers’ News Inc.

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Energy has seized $21 million from troubled automaker Fisker Automotive Inc. just weeks after the company laid off three-fourths of its workers amid continuing financial and production problems. Fisker had received $192 million in federal loans before a series of problems led U.S. officials to freeze the loan in 2011.

DETROIT—Sales of lithium ion batteries are expected to grow from $1.6 billion in 2012 to $22 billion by 2020, according to a report from Pike Research.

DETROIT—U.S. sales of plug-in electric vehicles are expected to reach about 1.8 million units by 2020, according to a new report by Pike Research.

DETROIT—Wanxiang Group, a large Chinese auto parts maker, has won a high-stakes auction for the assets of A123 Systems, the bankrupt American battery maker.

BEIJING—China-based Build Your Dreams will build a new assembly plant in California in 2013 to produce electric buses.