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A lack of skilled workers, average health of the work force
( smokers and obesity )
hasn’t stopped major EV and battery production projects from going to Kentucky or other Southern States.
Kentucky alone has bagged two major EV production developments in the last three months.
The vast majority of all of these major economic expansions ( there have been many ) have occurred in
the states where health and education are not probably any better than here in
Indiana.
However, all of these southern states have one thing in common.
1). Unions aren’t nearly as successful in organizing and are not welcome.
2). Several southern states do not have a state income tax.
3). These states keep regulations to a minimum.
We also need to shed our “ aw shucks down home attitude “. Just having a good business climate is NOT working. We need a solid outreach game plan.
We need economic development HUNTERS and to treat attracting economic development projects as a blood sport. Only results matter.
No pat on the back for an almost win.
Is Indiana developing an out reach program?? We need a solid and aggressive
marketing program to reach out to the decision makers of these future
economic development projects. We need to promote our strengths.
Keith B. – Two companies have announced plans to locate new battery manufacturing plants in Kentucky, Ford Motor Company and Japan’s Envision. Ford will receive up to $410 million in commonwealth incentive funds while Envision will receive up to $116 million from commewealth incentive funds and up to $5 million in grants for skills training. The Ford investment in Kentucky is not surprising since the company has invested nearly $7 billion there in the last 35 years.
I agree with everything you mentioned. Indiana needs to totally revamp its position on everything and become a more progressive state. If done correctly, Indiana can still have conservative positions on somethings and progressive on others. The low cost of living and business friendly atmosphere is an outdated talking point that’s not unique to just Indiana. Indiana has to get creative in thinking of ways to lure companies to wanna move here vs any other state to choose from. We definitely need to step our game up for generations to come.
Brent B. Agreed that Fords announcement wasn’t a suprise given their huge
investments in operations in Louisville. However, that plant could
have just as easily been built on the Indiana side of Louisville also.
That’s why I am hammering our state economic development officials.
For all the talk about quality of life and being a progressive state. Louisville and
the state of Kentucky have been nailing grand slam home runs over the
last ten years. I do t th8nk Louisville or the state of Kentucky is anymore
progressive than we are. They just are far more aggressive in bringing large
economic development projects to their state.
Here’s the main thing. Almost every major economic development project
had went to a southern state. What do the Southern States all have in common,
1). Lower taxes
2). Fewer regulations
3). Not union friendly. Much harder for the unions to organgisr.
That said, Indianapolis and the state need to be much more aggressive.
higher wages
educational oppurt: preK – to adult.
Investment : (tax someone, why not the poor)
Electric vehicles (EVs) are one of the least cost-effective ways to lower CO2 emissions. An EV must be driven 124K miles before it works off its carbon debt.
The battery has 135K miles of range before it degrades to the point of becoming unusable. And then it’s dumped in a landfill.
As a EV driver with 139k miles (and counting) on my Volt that is charged in my garage each night and not currently dumped in a landfill, those range numbers are garbage, not the EV battery.
I agree that EVs are not the panacea that many proponents make them to be, but electrifying our vehicle fleet is still important. Over time, we have to reduce the need for driving overall, but that’s going to be a long term effort that takes decades as we rebuild rail lines, scale up transit services, and redevelop areas around transit stations to be more walkable and people-oriented.
EV batteries are highly recyclable. New regulations mandating the recycling of batteries is going to be required. But let’s not spread the false information that they become “unusable” at 135k miles; there’s nothing to support that statement. Consumer Reports states that the average lifespan of an EV battery is about 200,000 miles, or 17 years of use assuming the average annual miles driven in the U.S.
I have friends that work for Stellantis in Kokomo. Some of them are starting to sweat bullets because it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out EV vehicles have 1/2 the moving parts to operate. In theory that’s going to require 1/2 the workers to BUILD THEM. Combine this with the growing number of robot production and people are losing jobs left and right. Just a matter of time if you ask me. This coming from native of Kokomo. My dad worked at GM for 25 years.
Where do we stand trying to get battery facilities in Indiana? With $3.16 billion from federal grants available there has to be a package that can be put together to lure companies to Indiana.