Think announces U.S. Factory Plans

摘要

Norway's Think electric car maker plans to open a new manufacturing plant and technical center in the U.S. According to Think CEO Richard Canny, the company is currently in discussions with eight states, including Michigan, hoping to host the facility, which will initially employ about 300 workers with a starting capacity of 16,000 cars per year. The technical center will provide jobs for another 70 engineers and electric drive specialists. Plans ultimately call for up to 900 employees and a capacity of 60,000 electric vehicles per year. Canny added, "The U.S. is quickly overtaking Europe as an attractive market for Evs and is an ideal location to engineer and build Evs. We see ourselves playing a small but potentially growing role in reinventing the U.S. auto industry by bringing back new manufacturing jobs to the U.S. to replace internal combustion engine vehicles that are expensive to operate and maintain with clean, efficient electric vehicles."