Chevy Volt battery plant location to be announced this week

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Manufacturing/Plants , GM Chevy Volt battery pack - click above for high-res image gallery Back in January at the Detroit Auto Show, then-CEO Rick Wagoner announced that General Motors would be building the battery packs for the Chevy Volt at a new plant to be located somewhere in Michigan.

Nissan to spend $1 billion on U.S. battery plant, 4 more plants in Europe

Nissan EV-02 prototype - click above for high res image gallery Nissan was one of the three recipients in the first round of low interest loans through the U.S. Department of Energy’s ATVM program along with Ford and Tesla . Nissan will be getting $1.6 billion from the program that will be used to re-tool part of its Smyrna, Tennessee factory to build electric cars and lithium ion batteries

Ferdinand Porsche Award goes to lithium battery researchers

click above for a high res gallery of Lohner-Porsche EVs and hybrids This year’s “Professor Ferdinand Porsche Award” has gone to Dipl. Eng.

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