Site Prep Work Reportedly Under Way for Kentucky Electric Vehicle Factory
By John O'Dell September 15, 2008
The contract manufacturing firm that has formed a joint venture with Northern California EV distributor Zap
said today it has started clearing ground for a million-square-foot electric vehicle factory in Franklin, Kentucky.
We're not holding our breath on this one, but it is backed by a $48 million state tax incentives package approved August 15.
Additionally, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear earlier this month signed an executive order that permits low-speed vehicles such as those promoted by Zap to be used on state roads with posted speed limits of 45 miles an hour or less.
That will help create a local market for any EVs that do come out of the proposed factory.
Randall S. Waldman, founder and president of two-year-old Integrity Manufacturing, the Kentucky firm that will run the plant, says that while the 200-acre EV factory site is all trees and dirt now, he expects to begin building the proposed Zap Alias 3-wheeler (above) and other Zap electric cars there within a year.
John O'Dell, Senior Advisor
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