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Employees check the assembling of a "Citelec" electric or hybrid utility vehicle, on September 5, 2012 at FagorBrandt factory in Lyon, centraleastern France. Doomed to closure in late 2010, Lyon's factory, formerly belonging to Spanish company FagorBrandt and producing washing machines, was taken over by French entrepreneur Pierre Millet and renamed "Societe d'innovation et de technologie de Lyon" (Lyon's Technology and Innovation Company, aka SITL), producing small electric or hybrid utility vehicles. AFP PHOTO/PHILIPPE DESMAZES (Photo by PHILIPPE DESMAZES / AFP) (Photo by PHILIPPE DESMAZES/AFP via Getty Images)