GreenCarNewsBreaks – Mullen Automotive Inc. (NASDAQ: MULN) Announces ATVM Pre-Application for Domestic Battery Materials Processing
Mullen Automotive (NASDAQ: MULN), an emerging electric vehicle (“EV”) manufacturer, today announced that its subsidiary Mullen Advanced Energy, LLC submitted a pre-application to the U.S. Department of Energy (“DOE”) Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (“ATVM”) Loan Program to support its expansion into domestic battery manufacturing. A $25 billion-dollar direct loan program funded by Congress in fall 2008, ATVM is designed to provide debt capital to the U.S. automotive industry for the purpose of funding projects that help vehicles manufactured in the U.S. meet higher mileage requirements and lessen U.S. dependence on foreign oil. “We are fully committed to transitioning the manufacturing of EVs…