Battery company Boston Power thinks it can bring electric car battery manufacturing to the U.S. with some help from government stimulus funds.

The Westborough, Mass.-based company on Monday is scheduled to hold a press event in nearby Hudson where it plans to build a factory to make lithium-ion as07b72 for laptops and electric vehicles.

Construction of the facility, which used to be a distribution center for a clothing retailer, is contingent on a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s advanced acer aspire 5520 battery and cell manufacturing grant program.

A Ford Escape modified to run with Boston Power’s Swing auto acer aspire 5520g battery.

Boston Power has applied for $100 million in the program and has lined up $9 million in state loans,acer aspire 5920 battery, according to founder and CEO Christina Lampe-Onnerud.

“The general feeling is that the stimulus money gives the investment community the shot in the arm to dare,”acer aspire 5920g battery, she said.

The $2 billion advanced battery manufacturing program was established earlier this year in the stimulus act to promote development of domestic acer aspire 6920 battery industry for a coming generation of electric vehicles.

Competition for the battery loan money, however, is fierce with about 160 companies said to be applying for the money. The U.S. Energy Department,acer aspire 7520 battery, which was criticized by renewable energy industries for delays, has said it expects to decide on the grants in the summer.

Four-year-old Boston Power already operates three factories in Asia to make batteries for Hewlett-Packard laptops. Those plants will serve as a “blueprint” for the Auburn facility,acer aspire 7720 battery , Lampe-Onnerud said.

It could take about three years to build the plant,acer aspire 8920 battery, which the company could start working on later this year, she said.

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Boston Power on Monday is expected to disclose the name of its auto battery, called Swing, which the company has been developing for several months. The company expects to make acer aspire 8920g battery for plug-in electric vehicles as well as all-electric cars.

Lampe-Onnerud said Swing is already being tested with well-known auto companies. The auto pack is based on the same cells used in Boston Power’s laptop toshiba satellite p35 battery which means that it a single manufacturing facility can turn out both.

The company decided Massachusetts would make a good location because the state offered incentives and it’s close to Boston Power’s research and development facility.

At Monday’s press conference,toshiba satellite p30 battery, five Massachusetts politicians are scheduled to speak including Gov. Deval Patrick and Secretary of Energy and Environment Ian Bowles.

A Massachusetts location could be beneficial to working with European auto industry partners,toshiba satellite a75 battery, Lampe-Onnerud said. “We have an opportunity to fulfill existing markets and be neighbors to where emerging markets are being invented,” she said.