EA-1714: Final Environmental Assessment

Toda America, Incorporated Electric Drive Vehicle Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative Project Battle Creek, MI

Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance

March 1, 2010

Toda America, Incorporated Electric Drive Vehicle Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative Project; Battle Creek, MI

DOE issued a final EA that analyzes the potential environmental impacts of awarding a federal grant under the Electric Drive Vehicle Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative to Toda America, Inc. for the construction of a new manufacturing plant to produce cathode materials used in lithium-ion batteries.

For more information, see Toda America, Incorporated Electric Drive Vehicle Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative Project.

  • EA-1714-FEA-2010.pdf (1.2 MB)
    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) proposes, through a cooperative agreement with Toda America, Incorporated (Toda) to partially fund the construction of a manufacturing plant to produce oxide materials for cathodes for lithium-ion batteries. The plant would be constructed within an existing industrial park in Battle Creek, Michigan. This plant would support the anticipated growth in the lithium-ion battery industry and, more specifically, the electric drive vehicle (EDV) industry and hybrid-electric vehicle (HEV) industry. If approved, DOE would provide approximately 50 percent of the funding for the project.