LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Although they aren’t seen in public together as a team pushing their electric vehicle plans and policies on the American people, the combined forces of Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and past Democratic Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm are working together to spearhead the EV revolution in Michigan and in the rest of the country.
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Granholm, President Biden’s Secretary of Energy, is currently on an EV “tour” in the southeast to promote the Biden administration’s clean energy investments, their climate policies and to discuss future EV-related job opportunities in the marketplace.
Granholm said at a lithium processing plant in North Carolina recently, “We wanted to come to the south because employers are coming to the south.” Before heading off to Georgia and Tennessee, she added, “I wanted to come to the South because the president is really interested in ensuring that every pocket of America benefits from this agenda.”
Her trips to the southeast were after a visit to Michigan last week where she spoke in Birmingham about the future of Michigan and the clean energy industry. She discussed solar and wind power and at the same time also admitted that there will be fewer assembly jobs needed for EVs.
This truth is highlighted by the recent announcement that Ford plans to cut approximately 1,000 employees in North America, mostly engineers in the United States and Canada. This comes on the heels of Ford receiving a $9.2 billion loan for their EV division last week from Granholm’s Department of Energy. These kinds of grants appear to be needed as Ford executives said in March that Ford would lose $3 billion this year on sales of EVs.
Granholm promised that the assembly jobs lost would be replaced by others “if we are smart about getting this full battery supply chain.”
Ready to help her with that is Michigan’s Governor Whitmer who has been heavily promoting the megasite developments all around Michigan including Ford’s BlueOval Battery Park in the City of Marshall and the Chinese-linked Gotion Battery Plant near Big Rapids. The Eagle Township megasite is also being looked at for a possible semiconductor facility or battery plant as is the development in Mundy township.
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With both Gov. Whitmer and the Biden administration set on their goal of a carbon neutral country by 2050 and drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, these two Michigan governors are off to a good start. Their work in Michigan and the rest of the United States to help President Biden create “clean, healthy and resilient communities” is delivering a superabundance of reduced emissions policies and a plethora of EV megasite developments in their quest to tackle climate change.
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