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General Motors’ assembly plant for its Chevy Volt battery is set to begin production on Thursday.

The company claims it will be “the first lithium ion battery pack manufacturing plant in the U.S. operated by a major automaker.”

To be more precise, the 160,000 square-foot plant will be run by GM’s wholly-owned subsidiary GM Subsystem Manufacturing. And the GM Brownstown Assembly Plant is just that: an assembly plant.

The Chevy Volt battery packs assembled at the plant in Brownstown Township, Mich.–about 20 miles south of Detroit–will consist of batteries manufactured by South Korea’s LG Chem with cells from LG Chem subsidiary Compact Power.

Each Chevy Volt battery pack will have about 220 cells and cost about $8,000, as previously announced by GM.

If attendees are any indication, GM seems to be using Thursday’s kick-off event to showcase its latest technology and to rally consumer and employee confidence in the U.S. auto industry. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and GM CEO Ed Whitacre will attend the ceremonial start-up of the plant’s operation.

The news also confirms analyst predictions about up-and-coming players in the battery industry. In August, Lux Research predicted that batteries will become a $60 billion industry by 2013, with Compact Power becoming a leading developer in lithium ion batteries for electric hybrid cars.

If you don’t want to lose your spare lithium batteries for your camera, notebook or cell phone, you can want to pack carefully for your next flight.

New rules from the Transportation and Security Administration that take effect on January 1 ban travelers from carrying loose lithium batteries in checked baggage. Passengers are allowed to pack two spare batteries in their carry-on bag, as long as they’re in clear plastic baggies.

 Fortunately, you don’t have to worry about the batteries that are already installed in the devices you’re bringing. The TSA has said it’s safe to check in items like a laptop battery or iPhone that already have the batteries in place.

The agency said that loose li-ion batteries not installed in devices pose a fire risk to passenger planes. Recently, the National Transportation Safety Board could not rule out the possibility that li-ion batteries started a fire in a plane at the Philadelphia National Airport last year, according to the Associated Press.

If you do plan on bringing spare battery in your carry-on bag, be aware of some other rules: You can only bring batteriy with an equivalent of up to 8 grams of lithium content. (Most batteries for cell phones and laptops meet this requirement.) And for lithium metal batteriy, whether carried as a spare or installed in a device, batteries are limited to 2 grams of lithium metal.

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