"This is a significant part of what the state is trying to do."
Beata Mostafavi -
MLIVE - August 19, 2009
When America can excell at battery design and production it will secure a large part of its technological future. --Ed.
FLINT, Michigan -- Gov. Jennifer Granholm surveyed the table of equipment at Kettering University Wednesday that included a half battery pack from a Ford hybrid, piece of a converter and motor.
"Bad news governor," professor James Gover told her. "Everything you see here was built in Japan."
"That's an outrage. We're going to switch that around," Granholm responded.
The university's $500,000 slice of battery grants will help, she said.
Granholm visited the campus today to celebrate federal battery funding that will help Kettering build a new hybrid vehicle power electronics lab that she called "an emblem of progress for Michigan."
"This is going to be such a wonderful job pipeline for students," said Granholm who later told Kettering students that the total $1.3 billion in battery grants Michigan received "is a game changer that happened and you're right in the center of it."
Kettering professors and students showed Granholm several examples of projects they've worked on related to alternative energy.
Granholm said the funding Kettering received, which will also allow the university to offer two new hybrid courses, is going to help produce local...
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