New York Times: With the first big wave of modern electric cars due to arrive in the next few years, the battle to attract manufacturing plants is heating up. Last week, Reva, an Indian maker of electric cars, announced that it planned to open an assembly plant in Upstate New York to build a three-door plug-in hatchback called the NXR, in partnership with a local company. New York officials welcomed the decision as a recognition of the state’s emerging battery-technology cluster and …