GE to open NY battery factory

13 May 2009 | Author: Jeanette Wiemers, newsbriefs editor | Print version | Send to a friend

Hybrid locomotive battery among advanced technologies that will be produced

General Electric announced today that it will be opening a $100 million facility in New York State for manufacturing its advanced battery technologies. The plant will produce a high energy density sodium-based battery for use in GE’s hybrid locomotive (available commercially next year), and will be able to produce about 10 million cells each year when operating at full capacity, creating 900 megawatt hours of energy storage that could power 1,000 of the hybrid engines.

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