WAKARUSA, IN-Navistar is test-driving its all-electric commercial truck in northern Indiana this week. The company plans to assemble 400 of the vehicles as part of a joint venture with Modec Ltd. of the United Kingdom. MORE
AUBURN HILLS, MI-ALTe LLC, a manufacturer of electric propulsion systems, opened a new 185,000-square-foot development and manufacturing facility here yesterday. MORE
COCONUT CREEK, FL-Power Tree Corp. has created a subsidiary to manufacture its flywheel-based energy storage system. Power Tree Manufacturing Group Inc. will operate a 220,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Coconut Creek, FL. MORE
TRENTON, MI-Chrysler Group’s new assembly plant here has received the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold certification for satisfying the highest environmental standards. The facility is the only engine manufacturing plant to receive this award in the world, and one among the four auto manufacturing facilities to achieve this LEED certification. MORE
ARLINGTON, TX-After being idle for weeks last year, the GM assembly plant here is working more overtime now than anyone can recall. Most of the factory’s 2,400 workers are putting in 60 hours some weeks. MORE
CHICAGO-Laid off nearly a year, Ford workers in Louisville are jumping at the chance to work at the expanding Chicago Assembly Plant. Chicago is adding a second shift to produce the Ford Taurus and Lincoln MKS and may add a third when it inherits production of a redesigned Ford Explorer in late fall. MORE
WINSTON-SALEM, NC-Workers at the Dell assembly plant here will get a third extension before the plant closes. The plant is now scheduled to close in October 2010. MORE
LYONS, PA-One person suffered smoke inhalation when a fire erupted in the dust collection system at East Penn Manufacturing Co. Inc. here Thursday night. The plant assembles lead-acid batteries. MORE
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