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too, probably also in the south-east, to assemble e-trons. Add those all up, factor in that both Scout trucks and Audi luxury cars will assuredly have bigger batteries than those pipsqueak ID.4s, and you have Volkswagen foregoing perhaps as much as US$10 billion in its decision to build the PowerCo plant in Ontario rather than America’s Deep South.
Another aspect that automakers may find wanting south of the border, says Brendan Sweeney, managing director of the Trillium Network for Advanced Manufacturing, is qualified workers. The Detroit area and other Michigan plants are at “full capacity” now. Gotion, a Chinese battery-maker, is scrambling to find skilled artisans to work in its proposed US$5-billion Michigan “Project Elephant” plant. Ditto down south, says Sweeney, which is now pretty much chock-a-block with auto manufacturing plants.
The direct answer is “we don’t know.” But we have some clues. Rumours are that Volkswagen has secured some 1,200 to 1,500 acres just outside St. Thomas. I’m not a farmer or a rancher, so I have not an inkling as to how big 1,200 acres might be. So, I started looking for a little perspective. As it turns out, both of Toyota’s Cambridge plants sit on a cumulative 400 or so acres of land, and they build some 300,000 vehicles a year between them.
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