Did you see this article in the Honolulu Advertiser on Friday?
Hawaii chosen as manufacturing site for electric mini-cars
S. Korea automaker to build, sell vehicles here, bringing up to 400 jobs
By Greg Wiles
Advertiser Staff Writer
A South Korea-based company has committed to build a $200 million assembly plant on O’ahu that would turn out two-seat electric cars and other vehicles and employ as many as 400 people.
CT&T Co. said it has narrowed its search to four sites on which to build a 100,000-square-foot plant from which it would also sell its elfin vehicles, which are mostly targeted at short jaunts on city and neighborhood streets.
The company and state officials announced the plans yesterday flanked by a dozen of the cars at the state Capitol. Later they signed an agreement pledging to cooperate on meeting each other’s goals….(Click here to read more)