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USCAR and DOE visit, tour new Battery Manufacturing Facility

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ORNL's Claus Daniel, left, shows DOE and USCAR representatives a battery pouch produced in the new facility. Continuing left to right are USCAR's Steve Zimmer, DOE's Yury Kalish, General Motor's William Peirce, and DOE's Richard Farmer.
While visiting ORNL transportation research facilities in June2012, officials from the United States Council for Automotive Research (USCAR) and US Department of Energy (DOE) were on hand for the launch of the lab’s new Battery Manufacturing Facility. 

A boost for US automotive and other industries, the new facility is the country’s largest open-access battery manufac­turing research and development facility. It complements the lab’s existing energy storage material processing capa­bilities, providing scientists the ability to analyze every aspect of battery production, from raw materials to finished product. The facility is co-located with ORNL’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility and National Transportation Research Center off Hardin Valley Road.

USCAR is the collaborative technology organization of Chrysler Group, LLC, Ford Motor Company, and General Motors Company. Since 1993, USCAR has teamed with DOE and industry in several partner­ships that evolved into US DRIVE in 2011, a government-industry partnership focused on advanced automotive and related infrastructure technology research and development.