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The money will be used to retool several Ford factories over the next couple of year. Ford is focusing on electric cars as well as improvements to conventional engines. Japan’s Nissan will get almost two billion dollars of government cash to build electric cars in the US and construct an advanced battery manufacturing plant.More about: Car industry, Ecology, USACopyright © 2012 euronews
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