Supporting Organizations
Leading U.S. battery and advanced materials companies, with support from one of the country's largest national laboratories, have formed the National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Battery Cell Manufacture, known as the "Alliance," to manufacture advanced lithium ion battery cells for transportation applications in the United States. The founding members of the Alliance include 3M, ActaCell, All Cell Technologies, Altair Nanotechnologies, Dontech Global, EaglePicher Corporation, EnerSys, Envia Systems, FMC, MicroSun Technologies, Mobius Power, SiLyte, Superior Graphite, and Townsend Advanced Energy. The Alliance seeks to develop one or more manufacturing and prototype development centers in the United States, which will be shared by Alliance members. Website forthcoming.
For more information, visit www.transportation.anl.gov/media_center/news_stories/20081215_battery_alliance.html.
Plug In America was formed to raise public awareness of and to advocate for plug-in transportation. We take our inspiration from earlier campaigns that saved around 1,000 of 5,000 production electric cars from being destroyed by the same automakers who put these great, emissions-free cars on the road. Those campaigns were led by individuals (organized around websites of various names) who coalesced into a chapter of the non-profit Electric Auto Association and then founded Plug In America as a separate non-profit on January 2, 2008.
For more information, visit www.pluginamerica.org.