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Bullitt County legislators were surprised on Tuesday when they heard the head of a Shepherdsville manufacturing company say he was looking to build a new plant in Simpson County, not Bullitt County. Rep. Larry Belcher and Sen. Gary Tapp had been helping Integrity Manufacturing get state help and assumed that a possible new plant to build electric cars was in the cards for Bullitt County. They were wrong. Integrity Manufacturing's Randall Waldman says the company has purchased an option on property in Franklin to build a plant and test track for ZAP electric cars. The company is also considering sites in Indiana. Waldman says the plant would employ up to 1000 people when it opens, up to 2500 when it's in full production. But right now, Integrity does not have a manufacturing agreement with ZAP to build the cars in the U.S. Governor Beshear signed an executive order today which will allow the three wheeled, low speed electric vehicles on Kentucky roads whose speed limit doesn't exceed 45 m.p.h. 1 CommentsLeave a comment |
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Did anyone ask TOYOTA if they felt the idea of a Chinese made three wheel, battery operated car is the next generation of on the road vehicles?
Did anyone go to Toyota and ask them if they would bring a modern public highway vehicle giving good gas mileage to the USA market?
If so what are the future plans for TOYOTA expansion to make more of the number one selling, fuel economy car in the World. The TOYOTA COROLLA! Thirty one miles to the gallon is what I get.
Sure TOYOTA COULD SELL MORE COROLLAS if they had the manufacturing space. And, when the new technology, for more fuel efficient vehicles is full blown, after research and testing, JAPANESE AUTOMAKERS will be the leader. Yet, THE USA has the WORLD'S BEST ENGINEERS. Why, because the Japanese have been silently working on this technology for years. While USA automakers are just now
'''GETTING WITH IT'''
GM is going to build a new car factory in CHINA. The present design does not meet USA federal standards for auto safety. We don’t know much about this car yet, but I am sure, one day . . . it will be SOLD IN THE USA. And, with hundreds of UNITED AUTOWORKERS out of a JOB, at a time when the USA economy at near disaster level for working citizens.
ZAP MAY SAVE GAS but I was wondering, and no one will admit, why didn’t KENTUCKY PARTNER A G A I N WITH TOYOTA?
I wonder if our sitting Governor and his past opposition to Toyota building a plant at Georgetown, had anything to do with it?
Probably not!
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SURE MISSED THE OPPORTUNITY HERE TO SHORE UP FUTURE RELATIONS WITH AMERICAS NUMBER ONE AUTOMOBILE COMPANY. . . . TOYOTA.
And all this just for political posturing...
I just wanna say!
Jim Anderson Stivers
Frankfort, KY.