VIDEO from Synaptic Digital and General Motors: Obama Gives Chevrolet Volt a Boost

NEW YORK, July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- President Obama recently helped break ground on a new lithium ion battery cell plant. The plant, in Holland, Michigan, will manufacture cells for electric vehicles like the Chevrolet Volt.

See video from General Motors at: http://inr.synapticdigital.com/oneClip_C_105/?feed=qmpf_QR__N3rTic8GIQOPZkCHc6LUUPk

Last August, the Obama Administration appointed $2.4 billion in stimulus spending aimed at encouraging development of new battery and electric-vehicle technology. The ninth of nine new factories to start construction, the Compact Power facility is a direct result of significant grants from that fund. Representing the latest step in the country's transition to a new green economy, the plant will create more than 400 construction and manufacturing jobs.

Many of the lithium-ion cells produced at the plant will be shipped across state to a GM plant to be assembled into batteries that will power the Volt. To date, the manufacturer has performed over a million miles of testing on the battery systems and will offer an 8 year/100,000 mile warranty on the Volt this fall.

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SOURCE Synaptic Digital; General Motors

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