Importantly, LEAF is now assembled in the United States at Nissan's Smyrna, Tenn. assembly plant, with battery production taking place right next door in the country's largest lithium-ion automotive battery plant.
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Now, this is the ninth advanced battery plant to begin construction because of our economic plan.
Watch the President's full remarks at Johnson Control's Battery Plant here.
Nissan's new lithium-ion battery plant is in an adjacent facility.
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We can put people back to work and we can get this economy growing again -- if we're putting in place some sensible policies of the sort that were reflected at this advanced battery plant that I saw.
Prahalad, who began his working life managing an Indian battery plant for Union Carbide, is best known as a highly influential thinker on corporate strategy, and has more recently turned his attention to ways to help poor people around the world.
He was visiting an advanced battery manufacturing plant in Holland, MI to highlight the key role that innovative technologies will play in the future of the U.S. auto industry.
The battery venture, called Texaco Ovonic Battery Systems, built a plant in Springboro, Ohio with the capacity to produce enough nickel-metal-hydride batteries to fill 60, 000 hybrid automobiles a year.
Last month, GM opened a new plant in Michigan to manufacture lithium-ion battery packs.
The Michigan plant was to have the capacity to produce enough battery cells to equip 60, 000 vehicles a year.
Instead of focusing on a campaign fundraiser Thursday in Ohio, and touring a Ford Assembly plant, the Republican front-runner began his morning in front of a battery of TV cameras, answering questions about his relationship with Iseman, who is 31 years his junior.
With Chinese partners, the company has a plant in China that will be able to make 20, 000 34-kwh battery packs annually, starting in 2011.
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