Coda Automotive, a California-based electric car company with plans to introduce a sedan late this year, said Tuesday it would build a lithium-ion battery plant in Ohio if it could gain approval of an as-yet unsubmitted Energy Department loan. That’s a big if.
Coda, which last year ended a similar bid for a battery plant in Connecticut after $38 million in federal funding fell through, may have a better chance this time. Last weekend, the Commerce secretary, Gary Locke, toured Coda’s joint-venture battery plant in Tianjin, China, commenting, “International green technology partnerships can produce rapid job growth back home and deliver energy solutions abroad, and Coda’s venture proves it.”
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