Amprius rethinking whether to build battery plant in Brighton

BRIGHTON — Hopes that a Silicon Valley-based battery producer would bring more than 300 jobs to Brighton seem to have been put on hold indefinitely.
The Brighton City Council last May extended for another year the incentives it had offered to Fremont, California-based Amprius Technologies Inc. (NYSE: AMPX) to open its first commercial-scale battery production site in a former Kmart distribution center at 18875 E. Bromley Lane. The design was completed last fall, and the plan was to have manufacture of lithium-ion batteries to begin there this June. Those products would be used in electric vehicles, drones, and by the…
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