The New York Times reports:
YPSILANTI, Mich. – The Ford Motor Company said Monday that it will invest $135 million in two Detroit-area component plants as part of what the carmaker was calling a “center of excellence” for building electric cars in Michigan.
The investment will result in 220 new jobs by 2012, Ford said, including 130 hourly jobs at a transaxle plant in Sterling Heights, Mich., and 40 hourly jobs at a Ypsilanti plant that will build battery packs. Fifty engineering jobs will be added.
“Electrified vehicles are a key part of our plan to offer a full lineup of green vehicles, and we are building a center of excellence in the U.S., here in Michigan, to keep Ford on the cutting edge,” Mark Fields, Ford’s president of the Americas, said in a statement...
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