Company behind contentious Michigan battery factory quietly registered as Chinese foreign agent, filings show

[Graham Wellington]

This is truly disgusting behavior by Whitmer and her cronies.

MAJOR KUDOS to the Detroit Free Press (an unlikely critic) for its excellent reporting on this matter!

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/ ... 785601007/

Should any of us be surprised by more disgusting tactics from her? She will stop at nothing to build her "legacy" and street cred in her progressive circles. That is her priority, and always has been.

Conservative victims do outrage better than anyone else.

I'm shocked, you are supportive of her behavior here...

[Graham Wellington]

This is truly disgusting behavior by Whitmer and her cronies.

MAJOR KUDOS to the Detroit Free Press (an unlikely critic) for its excellent reporting on this matter!

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/ ... 785601007/

Should any of us be surprised by more disgusting tactics from her? She will stop at nothing to build her "legacy" and street cred in her progressive circles. That is her priority, and always has been.

Worse yet, she only listens to stations that play KANSAS and BOSTON.

Actually, she is kind of like the evil religious stations that come in and gobble up all those relevant, original, and important radio stations. She came in and gobbled up land using donor money (taxpayers), and greased the process along using more of that dark donor money.

[MWmetalhead]

Just surprised that with all the big plants that closed and were tore down after 2009 that there weren't suitable alternatives in one of those locations for these new battery plants.

Great post, and I agree completely. Use an existing brownfield site to build a battery plant. Why disrupt a largely rural area?

Brownfield or no brownfield, the economic incentives and handouts being offered by the state of Michigan are preposterously large.

[Graham Wellington]

Just surprised that with all the big plants that closed and were tore down after 2009 that there weren't suitable alternatives in one of those locations for these new battery plants.

Great post, and I agree completely. Use an existing brownfield site to build a battery plant. Why disrupt a largely rural area?

Brownfield or no brownfield, the economic incentives and handouts being offered by the state of Michigan are preposterously large.

Supposedly, these developments require massive amounts of land with close proximity to freeways and other transportation sources from what I've read. Most brownfields apparently don't meet the acreage requirements.

https://mimanufacturinginnovationcampus.com/faqs/

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Just surprised that with all the big plants that closed and were tore down after 2009 that there weren't suitable alternatives in one of those locations for these new battery plants.

Great post, and I agree completely. Use an existing brownfield site to build a battery plant. Why disrupt a largely rural area?

Brownfield or no brownfield, the economic incentives and handouts being offered by the state of Michigan are preposterously large.

It’s also almost dead center of 94’s route in Michigan.

[TC Talks]

This is truly disgusting behavior by Whitmer and her cronies.

MAJOR KUDOS to the Detroit Free Press (an unlikely critic) for its excellent reporting on this matter!

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/ ... 785601007/

Should any of us be surprised by more disgusting tactics from her? She will stop at nothing to build her "legacy" and street cred in her progressive circles. That is her priority, and always has been.

Conservative victims do outrage better than anyone else.

I'm shocked, you are supportive of her behavior here...

I'm not supportive, but this is run of the mill politics. It also is creating jobs, not designed to build a wedge between citizens, or disrupt our relationship with other countries. On a scale of 1 to 10, where Trump level corruption is 8 (a la steal tax dollars for his hotels), this is a 4 or 5.

I guess I'm saying, your outrage is biased and inconsistent to the point of being predictable.

[MWmetalhead]

Logistically, I understand why Ford likes the location. Being very near the I-94 / I-69 junction provides easy access to plants in SE Michigan, their infamous Chicago plant, and Louisville.

[Graham Wellington]

Oh snap....

Ford 'pausing' construction of Marshall EV battery plant

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/busin ... 963467007/

[MWmetalhead]

Excellent! I hope this means $1.7 billion in taxpayer dollars will no longer be squandered.

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Excellent! I hope this means $1.7 billion in taxpayer dollars will no longer be squandered.

Of course long term this may greatly hobble Fords EV plans… that’s bad.

[MWmetalhead]

Any "hobbling" is their own fault, in my opinion.

I think automakers should be placing more emphasis on hybrids over pure EVs in any case.

[Matt]

Excellent! I hope this means $1.7 billion in taxpayer dollars will no longer be squandered.

Of course long term this may greatly hobble Fords EV plans… that’s bad.

Great!

[Graham Wellington]

Any "hobbling" is their own fault, in my opinion.

I think automakers should be placing more emphasis on hybrids over pure EVs in any case.

100%. The infrastructure to support EVs is obviously not even remotely close to being where it needs to be, and won't be for years.

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Any "hobbling" is their own fault, in my opinion.

I think automakers should be placing more emphasis on hybrids over pure EVs in any case.

Unfortunately that’s not where the world is headed… 15 years or so from now maybe 20 tops and we’ll be talking about gas engines the way we do manual transmissions. This is the wrong time for them to take years off of this if they want to have long term viability.

[TC Talks]

Wait, you're against the unions, and against the manufacturers?

Do you just hate everything?