Ford to have Zero Carbon Emission by 2025 for Michigan Production
Ford continues to take bold steps into the future. Today it struck a deal with DTE that would add 650 megawatts of new solar energy in Michigan to make Ford Michigan production carbon free by 2025.
Every Ford vehicle manufactured in Michigan will be assembled with the equivalent of 100% carbon-free electricity by 2025, 10 years ahead of Ford's global goal, the company said in the news release.
This purchase of carbon-free electricity through DTE's MIGreenPower program will avoid as much as 600,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions, DTE said in the release.
The investment is also expected to create jobs and tax revenue. in Michigan.
Win-Win. Bravo!
https://freep-mi.newsmemory.com?publ...b6fc4a_13485af
Article: The Motor City is moving south as EVs change the automotive industry
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/14/auto...-industry.html
Detroit has momentum in the sense that it has a number of corporate, engineering, and production legacies in place and remains the most important auto making hub. However, EV production might be cheaper further south with cheaper energy sources. As the new so called inflation bill allows some subsidization of all North American including Mexican resources and EV production, southern US assembly plants will be closer to Mexican battery production sites. Foreign car manufacturers will be able to set up UAW free manufacturing plants in less union friendly states and buy batteries made by a Chinese company in Mexico. All of this potentially subsidized by the the "inflation reduction" act of 2022.
"Auto executives say they’re investing in the South for a combination of reasons: lower energy costs, available workforce and livability among them. Many southern states also come with other benefits, potentially controversial, such as all-in lower pay for workers, millions in tax breaks and a largely non-unionized workforce in many of the Republican-controlled, right-to-work states." " investments from automakers and suppliers in southern states such as Alabama, Georgia and Kentucky to total $58 billion for electric vehicles between 2022 and 2026. That’s nearly four times the $15 billion that’s expected in Midwest states, and $20 billion elsewhere in the country."