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facility, but it wanted to scale up with a 200,000-square-foot manufacturing facility. “It certainly did not help that hundred of millions in DOE stimulus funds went to two Korean companies and one French company, Saft,” wrote Neal Maguire, vice president of business development. Earlier post.).
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million economic stimulus package to further develop the nation’s efforts in clean energy and efficient technologies across seven DOE national laboratories. With the recent stimulus funds, the BATLab will be able to greatly increase the number of tests it does. million in funding is part of a $104.7
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