According to foreign media recently reported that U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke’s Saturday visit to Tianjin in Tianjin China and the U.S. during which he stressed the changes in high-tech force, he said, even if the U.S. put pressure on China to the U.S. for more clean energy technology However, some areas in battery technology, the United States had to learn Chinese.
Locke This time take the U.S. trade delegation to China in the negotiations, it is also responsible for China-US strategic economic dialogue, after he visited soon after the establishment in Tianjin electric car battery production plant, the production base by the Tianjin Lishen Battery Company and the United States, California CODA Electric car companies set up to begin later this year for the California Electric Motors automobile battery.
The Sino-US joint venture will provide advanced coda lithium-ion battery, which is developing all-electric vehicle technology coda basis.
“A few years ago when the company began designing coda fully electric cars, the United States and have a large car with the battery system supplier,” U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke in the accompanying electric vehicle battery joint venture to visit the factory, coda CEO Kevin Czinger said, “so we are fortunate to be working together with Chinese partners the opportunity.
While U.S. companies have to rely on the production of China’s advanced battery technology, but this does not mean the U.S. should lose their jobs. As the electric car battery is more heavy transport costs lead to more expensive, battery components to ensure the timely supply, coda company plans to set up battery production plant in the United States, 2011 to be able to provide more than 14,000 for the electric car parts.
Kevin Czinger said, coda company goal is to replicate in China’s lithium ion battery manufacturing plant. Details of the move may be announced in the next four weeks, then for the United States is expected to create thousands of jobs.
“Global energy markets as much as 6 trillion,” Locke in the Saturday news conference in Tianjin, said, “As a global leader in clean energy, the two countries to maintain economic growth and create more employment opportunities, between the two States must work together than ever before. ”
According to the company said coda, coda last quarter of this year, plans to launch compact in California, all electric cars, then a single fully charged, based on individual driving habits, their journey to reach 100-120 miles.
Implemented from 7000 to 7500 U.S. dollars in tax incentives, the car will cost about 35,000 U.S. dollars, to be maintained at a relatively low price level, coda company will use the existing chassis and reinforcing, which means that the only future Since the Chinese auto manufacturers to update the original components to meet the U.S. automotive safety regulations can be.
Kevin Czinger also believe that lithium-ion battery technology from the research pioneered in the United States, but the coda company the way through China to achieve new breakthroughs in the road map, the help of Chinese technology, helping, coda that small companies no longer need in five years or 10 years after maturity of the technology to be new to the market.
