Republicans slammed Ford Motor Co.’s plans to invest $3.5 billion to build a battery plant in Michigan with help from a Chinese firm.
Republicans slammed Ford Motor Co.’s announcement Monday that it plans to build a battery plant in Marshall, Michigan, in cooperation with a Chinese firm.
The company bragged that the plant, called BlueOval Battery Park Michigan, would employ 2,500 people when battery production begins in 2026. But it also admitted that it would rely on a Chinese firm, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited , for the technology., Ford would own 100 percent of the plant but make battery cells using “technology and services” from CATL.
CATL is the largest electric vehicle battery maker in the world, with 13 factories in Europe and Asia but none in the U.S. It has 100,000 employees around the world, mostly in China, according to theFord’s executive chairman, William Clay Ford Jr.
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