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![In May 2017, Gotion High-Tech established a joint venture with Shanghai Electric. [Image from Sohu.com]](https://images.dailycaller.com/image/width=960,height=411,fit=cover,f=auto/https://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/imageedit_37_2444209426-e1697490718102.jpg "In May 2017, Gotion High-Tech established a joint venture with Shanghai Electric. [Image from Sohu.com]")
Gotion High-Tech, the Chinese parent company of Gotion Inc., which intends to build electric battery plants in Michigan and Illinois, operates a joint venture in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) that contracts with a U.S.-sanctioned entity, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of Chinese-language news reports and business filings.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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According to Reuters the state of Michigan is having the same concerns since Gotion is also building a battery plant there. The jobs will be nice but what does it mean if the controlling company is located in China? The factory will not be a union shop I assume.
I wonder if Pritzker read this article? Demand worldwide for EV’s is going down and JB is pushing for more EV’s. Maybe the Gotion facility is better off making Duracell Hearing Aid batteries since the pols are deaf to market demands.
https://www.thestreet.com/electric-vehicles/global-electric-vehicle-adoption-curve-slowdown-ev-tesla-detroit-three?puc=yahoo&cm_ven=YAHOO
Electric vehicles are the future, it’s just a matter of how quickly the public wants to adopt them. The sooner we can use EVs the sooner we can stop being dependent on oil.
Once we have more charging stations across the country that will help with range anxiety.
Who is in support of this plant, other than Jabba the Guvnuh?
Anyone who cares about future jobs. The car industry is going electric, and this plant will provide many good jobs for decades to come. Illinois has chase so many businesses away, beggars cannot be choosers.