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DETROIT, Jan 20 (Reuters) - General Motors Corp will invest $30 million in its planned U.S. plant that will build next-generation batteries for its all-electric Chevrolet Volt, the head of GM’s flagship Chevrolet brand said on Tuesday.
Tesla Motors said today that it will supply batteries and other components for the electric version of the Smart, a micro car built by the German auto maker Daimler. At the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Elon Musk, Tesla’s chairman and chief executive, said the company would supply about 1,000 power trains. The electric Smarts are due to arrive in 2010.
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Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) — A123Systems , a General Electric Co. - backed maker of lithium-ion batteries, is applying for $1.84 billion in federal loans to build the first large-scale U.S. plants to supply rechargeable hybrids and electric cars.
In the race to make the lithium-ion batteries that will run the electric cars of the future, the United States is losing to Asian countries, and start-ups and big companies need to band together to build a lithium-ion battery industry in the United States, says Jim Greenberger.
A consortium of 14 U.S. technology companies is reportedly seeking $1 billion in federal aid to build a factory to manufacture advanced electric car batteries.
Japan’s Honda Motor Co. Wednesday announced a venture to develop lithium-ion batteries, saying environmentally friendly hybrid cars were heading for the mass market despite the global auto industry slump.
Former Intel CEO — now a plug-in vehicle advocate — says the chip giant should make electric car batteries to diversify and jump-start the alternative-energy field.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) — Batteries with limited storage capacity are the main hurdle to Germany’s goal of putting 5 million electric cars on its roads by 2030, the transportation and environment ministers said.
* GM to name Volt battery supplier in November
