Wisconsin gives Johnson Controls-Saft $500,000 for hybrid battery tech
Friday, September 19th, 2008Filed under: Emerging Technologies, Hybrid, Legislation and Policy
The State of Wisconsin will give Johnson Controls-Saft a half-million dollar grant to aid in the development of hybrid battery technology, it was announced yesterday. The grant is part of Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle’s Clean Energy Wisconsin Plan, and requires Johnson Controls-Saft to invest $500,000 of its own money - I wouldn’t be surprised it it goes into the company’s Battery Technology Center in Milwaukee - to get the matching funds from the state. The company says it was given the grant “specifically for the advanced technology R&D and commercialization efforts for lithium-ion hybrid vehicle batteries.” Johnson Controls-Saft is also building li-ion batteries in France and got $8.2 million from the “ignorant” federal government.
[Source: Johnson Controls]
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