Navistar plans to produce 400 electric trucks.
Navistar plans to produce 400 electric trucks.
At a glance
Electric-vehicle grants:

Indiana

Navistar Inc. - $39.2 million to build electric delivery trucks in Elkhart County

Magna E-Car Systems of America Inc. - $40 million to increase production capacity of plants in Muncie and Holly, Mich., that make drive-train components for electric vehicles

Remy Inc. - $60.2 million to establish a standardized platform of hybrid electric motors and controls at plants in Anderson, Morristown, Greenfield, Indianapolis and Fargo, N.D.

Delphi Automotive Systems LLC - $89.3 million to increase the Kokomo plant's ability to make electronic components to control electric drive systems

Allison Transmission Inc. - $62.8 million to increase capacity to make hybrid systems for commercial trucks at company's Indianapolis plant

EnerDel Inc. - $118.5 million to make lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles at company's Indianapolis plant

Ohio

BASF Catalysts LLC - $24 million to make nickel-cobalt-metal cathode material for lithium-ion batteries in Elyria

Toxco Inc. - $9.5 million to recycle lithium batteries in Lancaster

Marty Schladen, The Journal Gazette

mschladen@jg.net

The auto belt - including northeast Indiana - is in a race for the future.

As global efforts ramp up to create economical electric cars and trucks, area manufacturers and colleges are fighting for the lead.

"This is a case that Indiana can win, but we have to play hard," said James Caruthers, a Purdue University professor of chemical engineering on the West Lafayette campus.

Those hopes got a big boost last month when President Obama traveled to Elkhart County to announce a $2.4 billion grant program to move electric-vehicle technology down the road. Of that, $410 million will go to projects primarily in Indiana - including $39.2 million for Navistar Inc., which has a major engineering operation in Fort Wayne.
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