The US DOE has awarded almost half a billion bucks to a few firms below the Home Manufacturing Conversion grant program to assist speed up the manufacturing of professional quality electrical vans and associated powertrain elements.
Volvo Expertise of America will obtain $208 to improve services on the Volvo Group’s Lehigh Valley Operations truck meeting web site in Macungie, Pennsylvania, the place it produces Mack vans, and its New River Valley truck manufacturing plant in Dublin, Virginia.
“The upgrades allow a novel manufacturing strategy that can considerably improve the manufacturing capability potential of battery-electric autos [and] gas cell electrical autos,” stated the corporate.
“By way of facility upgrades and worker coaching, this grant will assist our US crops extra effectively produce the modern vans and zero-emission powertrain elements important to this transition,” stated Stephen Roy, Chairman of Volvo Group North America and President of Mack Vehicles.
The initiatives are anticipated to create 295 new union jobs for Volvo and Mack.
The most recent spherical of funding additionally included nearly $158 million for ZF Axle Drives to transform a part of its Marysville, Michigan, facility from ICE element manufacturing to EV element manufacturing.
Cummins will obtain $75 million in matching funds to transform 360,000 sq. ft of an engine plant in Columbus, Indiana, to fabricate electrical powertrain methods.
Supply: Trucking Dive