Ford to have Zero Carbon Emission by 2025 for Michigan Production

[Lowell]

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

[oladub]

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."

[Richard]

^ agreed,be careful what you wish for.

The estimate in the EU for job loss when it comes to the transition from ICE jobs to EVs alone,taking into account the green jobs that will be filled,is over 275,000.

Remember what happened to Detroit automotive ,and other cities when it came to steel what happens when you wipe out the labor force?

Is the Detroit of today preparing and getting ready for a repeat of a devastated work force that could very well repeat itself in less then 5 years?

On a snarky side note,do not forget that you are going to be in the hook for a multi billion dollar bridge that was banking on the auto trade to survive that clearly is not going to be there,and everyday there is more of a tax obligation placed on the existing residents.

Also a majority of the projects coming online,are tax capture,that says they will not be adding to the tax rolls for another 15 to 30 years,so while it is good that progress is being made,unless they start figuring out how to increase the tax base to offset that now,start a non profit and start building low income housing because that is the only way one will make money,like I said,you do not make money off of the rich,you make money off of the poor and there will be an abundance of them.

They are clearly telling you that the manufacturers are setting up to be centrally located with all production in one place and that is not going to be in Michigan.

That counts for billions in state revenue and cross border shipping that will no longer be there.

Its going to take 2 years to pull out of this recession,that leaves 3 years,ready for it?