>> yeah, the janesville plant does remain idle. and by the way, i've been through quite a few launches truck wise there, so you've got a great town and a great workforce. you know, we can't -- we can't make a pronouncement on any production facility when you look at the economy and the fragility of the economy and the policies and economies worldwide, including europe and some of the natural disasters that have happened. so when people want to know what the industry is going to run at next year, you know, i wish i could tell someone exactly what it's going to run at, set up our production facilities around that, and then operate to it. it would make my life a lot easier. i don't know all that. i do know that we have to be able to preserve the agility of the company to be able to make money at the very bottom of the cycle, which is about 10 1/2 to 11 million units. and be able to, you know, not have big swings in employment and plants until we get a sustained recovery in place that is based on jobs in the united states and north ame

i love janesville. it is a great place.t: last call for mark reuss, general motors vice president. tracy in massachusetts. caller: good morning. guest: good morning. caller: first of all, i would like to congratulate you for your thrifty use of the tarp money, which the financial sector cannot claim. i want to ask about the battery technology. chevron subsequently sequestered it from the automotive market, forcing companies like tesla and coda to use foreign batteries for their technology. how is this technology going to become no longer sequestered? guest: we have a partner, nlg, that i think you are speaking of free we have other partners that are new venture -- that i think you are speaking of. we have other partners that are new venture. we have a portfolio of battery launches. the rest of the industry uses lg battery cells. there's a whole host of people that are in it. we're getting scale. i'm not sure there's only one. when we put together the ip around the volt battery, for instance, we really relied on lg to the hi