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Alabama rejected CCP-tied EV company's project that blue states eventually green-lit
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EXCLUSIVE: A Chinese electric vehicle battery manufacturer's plan to build a factory in Alabama was rejected before the firm turned to blue states, Fox News Digital has learned.
However, local officials involved in reviewing the proposal – which Gotion proposed to develop on the site of the shuttered FreightCar America factory in Muscle Shoals, Alabama – ultimately turned down the project after learning more about Gotion, the sources told Fox News Digital. Gotion eventually took the plan elsewhere and received commitments from Michigan to develop a battery component facility and Illinois for a battery cell factory. Thomas Catenacci is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
Kevin Jackson, the president of the Shoals Economic Development Authority, declined to comment on the Muscle Shoals proposal in an email to Fox News Digital, saying the organization entered into a nondisclosure agreement with Gotion to discuss the potential facility. According to Jackson, the agreement lasts for three years after the termination of the project.