The US DOE has awarded practically half a billion bucks to 3 firms beneath the Home Manufacturing Conversion grant program to assist speed up the manufacturing of professional quality electrical vehicles and associated powertrain elements.
Volvo Know-how of America will obtain $208 to improve amenities on the Volvo Group’s Lehigh Valley Operations truck meeting website in Macungie, Pennsylvania, the place it produces Mack vehicles, and its New River Valley truck manufacturing plant in Dublin, Virginia.
“The upgrades allow a novel manufacturing method that may considerably improve the manufacturing capability potential of battery-electric automobiles [and] gasoline cell electrical automobiles,” mentioned the corporate.
“By means of facility upgrades and worker coaching, this grant will assist our US vegetation extra effectively produce the progressive vehicles and zero-emission powertrain elements important to this transition,” mentioned Stephen Roy, Chairman of Volvo Group North America and President of Mack Vehicles.
The tasks are anticipated to create 295 new union jobs for Volvo and Mack.
The newest spherical of funding additionally included virtually $158 million for ZF Axle Drives to transform a part of its Marysville, Michigan, facility from ICE element manufacturing to EV element manufacturing.
Cummins will obtain $75 million in matching funds to transform 360,000 sq. ft of an engine plant in Columbus, Indiana, to fabricate electrical powertrain techniques.
Supply: Trucking Dive