Connersville lines up new tenant for ex-Visteon factory
An eastern Indiana city could sell the factory to a cabinet company for $1 as part of a deal for it to hire more than 300 workers.
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Three former executives sue Carbon Motors over pay
Executive vice presidents of a company that planned to build high-tech police cars at an eastern Indiana factory are seeking more than $600,000 in deferred wages.
Carbon Motors plans to build different vehicle in Indiana
A company planning to one day build high-tech police cars in a vacant eastern Indiana auto parts factory says it has a second vehicle that it plans to produce in Indiana.
Buyer of vacant Connersville factory gets more time
Officials of an eastern Indiana city are giving the potential buyer of a large vacant auto parts factory more time to close on the purchase.
Carbon Motors still part of plan to revive Connersville plant
The maker of high-tech police cars would occupy about a third of the plant if buyer of facility makes good on $4 million purchase offer.
Investors still may clean up on some clean-tech bets
The spectacular flameouts of some startup firms underscores the risk of relying on infusions of federal money to keep a business viable.
Carbon Motors says DOE won’t give it $310M loan
Carbon Motors Corp., which hoped to create hundreds of jobs and thousands of high-tech, fuel-efficient police cars in Indiana, said the U.S. Department of Energy is not going to give the company a critical $310 million loan.
Solar flop puts energy funding in limbo
Companies promising thousands of green jobs in Indiana are playing a high-stakes waiting game as federal officials consider the fate of at least $600 million in loan guarantees.
Congressmen back Carbon Motors’ loan request
Most of Indiana's congressional delegation is supporting an Indiana company's request for a federal loan they say would help create perhaps 1,500 jobs building high-tech police vehicles in Connersville.
Whatever became of the cool cop car?
The wheels of government turn slowly, a Carbon Motors exec explains. Meanwhile, the company has nearly stopped giving media interviews.
Is alternative energy sustainable in Indiana?
An economic development observer questions what will happen after the feds turn off the tap.
Carbon Motors’ prototype cop car is crammed with technology
The specialized vehicle can read license plates, sniff for weapons of mass destruction and see people and animals in
the dark.
Carbon Motors, the anti carmaker
The upstart cop car manufacturer is doing lots of things differently, including the way they track your car.
Hundreds show interest in jobs at police car maker
Company executives told those at Monday’s information sessions that many jobs will require an associate’s degree in engineering
and computer literacy to operate assembly-line machines.
BMW, Carbon Motors ink $1.35B supply contract
BMW has won a contract from Indiana-based Carbon Motors Corp. worth more than $1.35 billion to supply engines for U.S. police
cars.
Kmart closing adds to Connersville jobless woes
Kmart’s announcement that it will close its store in Connersville in May will put 59 employees out of work. Fayette County,
where the city is located, already is strapped by steep job losses.
Connersville eager for Carbon Motors to rev up
The jobs can’t come soon enough for Connersville, where unemployment is at 13.8 percent.
Connersville to put $500,000 toward Visteon site cleanup
The city of Connersville will spend $500,000 to clean up the former Visteon site where a startup company
wants to build police cars.
Former Visteon plant lined up for Carbon Motors
Atlanta-based Carbon Motors is a step closer to producing its high-tech police cars in Connersville after a bankruptcy
judge authorized auto-parts maker Visteon Corp. to sell a closed plant to the city for $500.
Connersville progresses on Carbon Motors deal
Connersville Mayor Leonard Urban says the city soon will clear legal and environmental hurdles that stand in the way of Carbon
Motors’ launching its operations in the former Visteon plant.