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New eZONE Electric Vehicle Plant Brings Green Jobs to South Carolina Posted: 05 Jul 2010 09:35 AM PDT In yet another sign of the rapidly developing electric vehicle market, Korea-based CT&T has reached a milestone in its plans to manufacture its all-electric eZONE passenger car in the U.S.  Last fall the company announced that it would build a series of factories in the U.S. based on its proprietary regional assembly and sales model, and it looks like Spartanburg County, South Carolina will host the first one.  Teamed with project management specialists 2AM Group LLC, the new factory represents an investment of $21 million that will bring 370 new jobs to the area within the next five years. The word from CT&T’s was just one in a flurry of electric vehicle announcements last week, which included GM’s launch of a cross country tour for the Chevy Volt, the release of a sketch of BMW’s new electric car, and an announcement from Volkswagen that it will bring its E-UP! electric car to the U.S. within the next couple of years. (more…)

GM Takes Chevy Volt on the Road to Stir Up Interest Posted: 05 Jul 2010 09:31 AM PDT General Motors is on an all-out push to ensure that its new Chevy Volt becomes the electric car of the mainstream U.S. market.  On July 1 the company launched a cross country tour introducing American communities to the car from Austin, Texas to New York, New York.  It’s pretty clear that the symbolism-freighted trip is designed to spur U.S. car buyers to hop aboard a revolutionary change in passenger car technology: the route covers 1,776 miles on a journey timed to end today,  Independence Day. The reference to the American Revolution also shows that GM is right up in the grill of any skeptics who still doubt the viability of  an electric car in the U.S. market.  After all, the world pretty much figured that the American experiment in self-government was doomed to fail and hey, 234 years later we are still proving them wrong.  The choice of Austin and New York City as bookends is no accident, either.  It’s a pretty clear indication that GM’s mainstream market includes everybody no matter where they live, without dividing the country into “real Americans” and whoever else. (more…)

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