Ford Invests $135M In Green Parts For Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Ford Motor Company announced that it will invest $135 million in two Michigan factories to design, engineer and build key green vehicle parts for the next generation of hybrid-electric vehicles that go into production in 2012.

The investment will result in adding 170 jobs to its Rawsonville plant, while Engineers in Dearborn will design the battery packs and more than 50 engineers to its Van Dyke Transmission Plant in Sterling Heights in the next two years.

Ford would be pumping about $10 million at its Rawsonville components plant to produce lithium-ion battery packs for future hybrid vehicles, also moving its work to Michigan that is currently performed by Delphi in Mexico. About 40 new jobs will be created in the starting of 2012. As of now Ford employs about 780 at Rawsonville plant.

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Electric and Hybrid Cars Taking Off

The global market forelectric carsis ready to surge, proving skeptics wrong and leaving car companies scrambling to make them, the chief executive of Nissan told theWall Street Journal. Nissan will begin selling the all-electric Leaf sedan in December.
Nissan is trying to carve out a leadership position in the industry with electric vehicles. It plans to sell 50,00 electrics in the U.S., Japan and Europe in each of 2011 and 2012n, and then leap to 500,000 in 2013 when the Leaf will be profitable, according to the Journal.
Meanwhile Ford said it plans to make more of the components for its hybrid and electric vehicles in the U.S. as part of an effort to increase the number of low- or zero-emission models it offers over the next few years, reported the Journal. By 2020, the automaker expects that 10% to 25% of its global lineup will be such models.

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Terry McAuliffe firm buys electric car company

Terry McAuliffe is in the car business.

The former Virginia Democratic gubernatorial hopeful last week paid $20 million for Hong Kong-based EuAuto Technology, which builds an electric vehicle called the MyCar.
MyCar is for people who need wheels to run errands or tool around the neighborhood.
"It's really a second car if you live in Washington," McAuliffe said.
McAuliffe bought MyCar through his McLean-based holding company, GreenTech Automotive. GreenTech will provide MyCar with capital and access to the U.S. market.
McAuliffe said if MyCar is approved by the U.S. regulators, it could be on sale next year.
MyCar can travel 70 miles on a single charge and has a top speed of 45 miles per hour.
The MyCar is not for highway travel, and is designed to sell as a second car for families. The MyCar will be priced between $13,000 and $16,000, McAuliffe said. It will take four hours to charge.
In addition to the MyCar, GreenTech is developing four highway-ready prototypes using European technology. Three of the vehicles are hybrids and one is electric. McAuliffe said GreenTech is scouting sites in Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia for a plant where it can manufacture his product line.

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LI-ION MOTORS CORP. UNVEILS WORLD’S best an all ELECTRIC SUPERCAR - “THE INIZIO”

(I-Newswire) May 24, 2010 - Li-ion Motors Corp. (OTCBB:LMCO) www.Li-ionMotors.com manufactures emission free electric vehicle using lithium-ion batteries technology. The company will reveal its super electric car Inizio to the media and to shareholders and the public at an open house on September 15, 2010.
The Inizio is a world class an all electric super car. This super car will be manufactured in North Carolina where the company has 40,000 foot facility. With the heavy production in this electric super car; LMCO and its associated people can now think of great revenues.
This super car runs at a speed of 170 miles per hour or 272 kilometer per hour with an acceleration of 0 to 60 miles or 0 to 96 kilometers in just 3.4 seconds. LMCO’s electric car uses an advanced lithium ion battery technology. This lithium–ion battery ranges 250miles or 400miles per charge. LMCO says that with excellent power the car has a bigger cockpit than other cars for the comfort of taller customers. Li-ion Motors electric car is designed very beautifully and has a multifunction power seats that include both heating and cooling. With this LMCO offers removable hardtop stores in the car and can be raised or lowered for the ease of entrance and exit. The car is easy in handling steep curbs and driveways. All the body parts of the car designed such that it offers better quality, lighter and stronger parts.

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New Lithium Battery and Management System Doubles Range of ZAP Electric Cars

SANTA ROSA, Calif., May 18, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Electric vehicle pioneer ZAP(ZAAP 0.38, -0.01, -2.56%) has begun shipping lithium battery systems for various models of its electric cars, trucks, vans and scooters, offering at least four times the life of standard lead-acid batteries and twice the driving range. The new battery system is the first turnkey, drop-in replacement battery system that fits in the same space as the G-31 lead acid batteries used in many of ZAP's vehicles, equipped with a BMS (battery management system) that increases reliability and extends range.

The lightweight lithium battery system is used in the ZAP Alias, allowing it to drive up to 100 miles on a single charge. In China, ZAP's new fleet vehicles use a similar system for its electric taxis and corporate vehicles based on the Jonway A380 SUV. A sub-chassis array of more than 100 battery cells is networked with an electronic monitoring system, ensuring that temperature and voltage of each cell are in balance and that electricity is automatically rerouted should any of the cell voltages change.

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AM General to assemble Ford’s electric vehicle in Livonia

AM General L.L.C.
will assemble
Ford Motor Co.’s all electric Transit Connect commercial vehicle at its engineering and product development center in Livonia.
Oak Park-based
Azure Dynamics Corp.is designing and manufacturing the lithium ion battery-powered electric powertrain system and
Johnson Controls Inc.is supplying the battery packs and cells for the powertrain.

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Are Lithium Air Batteries the Future of Electric Vehicles?

Researchers at Argonne Labs are in the early stages of developing lithium air batteries, which according to some scientists, could be as much as 100 times more powerful than current electric vehicle battery packs.

With the first wave of plug-in cars set to hit the market later this year, there is still uncertainty as to whether consumers will balk at price tag and range limitations of early-model electric vehicles. Both of these drawbacks can be traced to the shortcomings of the current generation of lithium ion batteries, which have made huge strides in the last decade but are still perceived to not meet the needs of some drivers.

But what if lithium batteries could be lighter, cheaper and at least five times more powerful than those that will power cars like the Chevy Volt,Mitsubishi i-MiEV, or Nissan Leaf?

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Nissan says Leaf electric car to cost under $38,100

LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) - Nissan (7201.T), Japan's third-biggest carmaker, said on Monday its Leaf electric car would cost under 30,000 euros ($38,110) in most European countries after incentives offered by governments to push the new technology.
Nissan Motor Co and French alliance partner Renault (RENA.PA) are investing over 4 billion euros in electric vehicles and see them accounting for 10 percent of new car sales by 2020, an ambitious forecast compared with those of other carmakers and analysts. [ID:nLDE63R29H] Electric vehicles are expected to account for 4.5 percent of the total 100 million strong light vehicle market by 2020, according to a recent report by HSBC analysts.

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