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For months now, a team at an Indiana plant has been hard at work preparing to manufacture electric delivery trucks that are entirely powered by plug-in power. They’ve been installing equipment, retrofitting an old manufacturing facility, assembling parts, testing the new technology – and today they became the very first Recovery Act recipient to deliver an electric vehicle with the advanced battery and electric drive grants the President announced last year as they unveiled their new truck today and handed the keys off to the customer.
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Perhaps the President was on to something last year when he chose Navistar’s Wakarusa plant as the location to announce these awards – because that Indiana team marking this important milestone today is none other than the fine folks at Navistar. You may remember some of them from this video of the President’s visit there last year. Their community was hard-hit when a local employer, RV manufacturer Monaco Coach, went bankrupt during the economic downturn. Like communities across the country, they’re still making their way to back to economic recovery – but they’re starting to see a brighter future thanks to the Recovery Act. The electric truck being unveiled today? It was manufactured at one of Monaco’s old facilities - which is today Navistar’s new electric vehicle facility. And it was made with the help of some former Monaco employees – who, thanks to the Recovery Act, are now on the job at Navistar.
And because of the advances the more than 40 recipients of the Recovery Act’s $2.4 billion investment in electric vehicles are making today, we’re going to go from two advanced vehicle battery factories last year to 30 by 2012. We’ll go from two percent of the world’s advanced vehicle battery market share to 20 percent by 2012. And we’re not just making the parts here at home, we’re also helping plant the power stations to fuel electric cars all over the country. So while Navistar’s customer will hit the road with a brand new electric vehicle soon – it may not be long before you do too.
Hat Tip to eeff for link to a photo of one such vehicle: http://www.evworld.com/...