Monday, March 16, 2009

Car manufacturer announces plans for U.S. electric car plant

Norwegian car maker Think has announced plans for a U.S. electric car facility and is in talks with eight states about a site for the plant.

Company officials said the plant would initially employ about 350 people and produce 16,000 cars a year, with plans to increase the workforce to 900 people and production to about 60,000 cars a year over time.

"The US is quickly overtaking Europe as an attractive market for EVs [electric vehicles] and is an ideal location to engineer and build EVs," Think CEO Richard Canny told Business Green.

The company did not say when construction of the plant might begin. For more info, check out this story on Business Green.