{"id":420865,"date":"2010-03-12T13:57:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T17:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=5914"},"modified":"2010-03-12T13:57:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T17:57:17","slug":"lg-chem-to-build-300-million-battery-plant-in-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/420865","title":{"rendered":"LG Chem to Build $300 Million Battery Plant in Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5915 aligncenter\" title=\"gm_brownstone_battery_plant\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/03\/gm_brownstone_battery_plant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s long been known that LG Chem \u2014 and it&#8217;s Michigan-based subsidiary, Compact Power Inc. \u2014 were chosen to build the cells for the Chevy Volt&#8217;s lithium-ion battery packs, up till now most of the research, refinement and production of those cells has been done in Korea.<\/p>\n<p>LG Chem has been hinting for over a year that all of that battery cell production will eventually shift to the US. Today the company revealed that they&#8217;ve chosen to invest $300 million in a Holland, Michigan battery plant capable of suppling cells for more than 50,000 plug-in cars per year. The plant is expected to employ over 400 workers by 2013.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/03\/12\/lg-chem-to-build-300-million-battery-plant-in-michigan\/#more-5914\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=E-NrJa15H80:8bVWascLig4:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=E-NrJa15H80:8bVWascLig4:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=E-NrJa15H80:8bVWascLig4:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=E-NrJa15H80:8bVWascLig4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=E-NrJa15H80:8bVWascLig4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=E-NrJa15H80:8bVWascLig4:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=E-NrJa15H80:8bVWascLig4:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=E-NrJa15H80:8bVWascLig4:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gas2\/org\/~4\/E-NrJa15H80\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it&#8217;s long been known that LG Chem \u2014 and it&#8217;s Michigan-based subsidiary, Compact Power Inc. \u2014 were chosen to build the cells for the Chevy Volt&#8217;s lithium-ion battery packs, up till now most of the research, refinement and production of those cells has been done in Korea. LG Chem has been hinting for over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4082"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}