Elon Musk shared a piece on Sunday published on Bloomberg along with his thoughts on who exactly wrote it — Ford and UAW lobbyists. He also pointed out that Ford’s EVs are not even made in America. How does this serve the American taxpayer? It doesn’t. The article, which touched … [continued]
Do you remember that hyped-up “EV event” at the White House that was hosted by President Biden but was really a pretty ceremony for the UAW to come and puff its chest? During that event, which excluded EV-leader Tesla, which produces not only the most American made EVs but also … [continued]
First of all, it is definitely true that there are strong (and obvious) reasons for why Tesla should be a part of any EV event anywhere in the United States, especially one organized by national-level politicians. I’ll come back to those reasons at the end of this piece. However, the … [continued]
There’s finally a response from the White House on why it excluded Tesla from its EV event. Technically, it’s more than just an EV event, as some in the comments kindly corrected, but the event is centering around selling a lot more EVs by 2030 — a 50% target market … [continued]
Various outlets report that Ford and UAW are at odds over battery production. Ford and its partner, SK Innovation, plan to build several plants to produce batteries for Ford’s electric vehicles, and they aren’t sure that they want the plants to use union labor. UAW is afraid this will lead … [continued]
Yesterday morning, it looked like Austin would definitely be the new location for Gigafactory 5 (Giga Texas). KXAN reported that Tesla submitted an application with Del Valle ISD for “Gigafactory” and there are $68 million tax incentives proposed.
Earlier this month, Ford was planning to restart production at its Hermosillo Assembly Plant. Other Ford plants that are closed due to COVID-19 were supposed to reopen on April 14. For now, Ford has announced that several of its North American production facilities have closed indefinitely.
A bill was recently introduced in Ohio (HB546) to remove the disproportionate and unfair electric vehicle tax.
On Monday, General Motors announced its plans to build all-electric trucks and SUVs, along with the Cruise Origin, an electric autonomous ride sharing sharing vehicle, at the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant. I spoke with GM leadership about the news. Some initial notes are below. More are coming in a future article.
Ted Krumm, head of the UAW’s bargaining committee states: “This strike is about us … standing up for fair wages, for affordable quality healthcare, for our share of profits, and for our job security.” Apparently, the autoworker union does not believe that GM is adequately sharing with workers the more than $8 billion in profits the company made in 2018.
