U.S. President Barack? Obama is scheduled on the 15th made a speech in Michigan, called for businesses to invest production plug-in hybrid electric vehicle battery, saying the industry will become the highlight of U.S. economic recovery.
Obama is scheduled to fly to Michigan the same day Holland city to participate in ground-breaking ceremony of a battery factory PC764 Latitude D620 battery .
The facility will be GM’s Chevrolet “Volt” series and the Ford Motor Company, “Focus” series hybrid battery production Latitude D610 battery .
The federal government expects that by 2011, this project can promote plug-in hybrid electric vehicle battery to increase annual output to 50,000 to reach 500,000 by 2014.
White House spokesman Robert? Gibbs 14, said: “We intend to produce these products in the U.S. (electric vehicles and battery), we need to create jobs for Americans.”