Volkswagen has announced plans to build an electric vehicle battery plant in southwestern Ontario, aiming to be operational by 2027.
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Can you imagine all the kickbacks?
Imagine that, a corporate entity ready to exploit a government mandated market……..
@omicron delta so a corporation will exploit ANOTHER corporation and lemmings who have had their SURNAME incorporated at birth will do NOTHING #$#+_
Not a single video clip of BEV vehicles. Just shows how this concept is so new.
I hope the kids that are mining the colbalt in The Congo get a raise.
Latest battery technology does not use cobalt, but your phone does.
you could care less about kids in the Congo
let me guess. if the kids in congo started making 6 figure incomes you would complain that we should have these jobs in Canada.
@Tim Neufeld It comes from wherever it is the cheapest , we always sucked the wealth out of poor country’s
@Donnie Draftdodger Obviously no one cares.
The last thing that electric vehicles are, is environmentally friendly. Whatever you do, don’t look behind the curtain to see what goes in to making one of these batteries.
@NotLess Grossman yes eventually they can be but are you gonna pay for the storage Incase they one day become recyclable no they’re gonna get chucked out and cause environmental hazards
@NotLess Grossman Seems to me you did. 😂
Still more environmentally friendly than oil.
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How much in federal funds/provincial funds did they get.
Oh cares, like, um, ya know climate changes and stuff, like.
Wonder how much energy it actually takes to make one of these electric battery vehicles.
306 barrles of oil
It might create jobs but only the wealthy ça afford one.
500000 lbs of earth are processed for one 1000 lb EV battery.
LOTS!
It better have an amazing R&D department. Battery run vehicles are still way over priced and cannot cover the distance’s needed in large portions of North America. Not to mention, where will the raw materials come from?
Doubt they care about consumer’s pockets.
@Keith Sim Or about the countries that’ll supply the batteries.
@The No Neck People Representative VW is making the batteries in Canada. The raw materials will come from Canada as well. We have everything required to build batteries in Canada
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I’m sure all the necessary research has been done, and it must check out, right? Like, how long do the batteries hold power enough to operate the vehicle, and what is the life expectancy of these batteries? Is the electrical infrastructure in most Canadian provinces able to handle the charging needed? Are these batteries able to handle Canadian winters, where we see temperatures quite regularly at -40C? And really, Volkswagen really isn’t taking much if any risk. I’m sure most of the money for the plant will be from sources other than their pocket.
🤣🤣🤣 im glad you like paying big oil companies
No, of course they haven’t thought of that because they lack your big brains, boundless expertise, and profound knowledge. Without you, all hope is lost
YES more gas generators put In place to help power all these environmental cars
Coal powered cars.
You’re failing to say that Canada is paying them $15 billion to come here, a business that will fail.
Roughly 500,000 gallons of water goes into extracting 1 ton of lithium
Electric cars are so heavy, they use twice as many tires.
If everyone owned an EV, the amount of diesel required to power the heavy machinery to mine that amount of lithium, would be more than what would be required if everyone drove around in a diesel powered vehicle.
Well that just defeats the whole purpose of electric vehicles 😂😂😂😂
Evs dont do well in Canada
Thank you Trudeau for the leading electric work Canada is doing. World leaders. 😊
The children in the Congo will be very pleased to hear this.
Like u actually care
Tesla is building a EV battery plant in Corpus Christi Texas.
$375,000,000.
No where near the 4.9 billion price tag of the VW plant in Ontario.
Seems odd the price tag is so high for the VW project.