Honda chooses Ohio for $3.5B battery plant, will hire 2,200 people

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17 thoughts on “Honda chooses Ohio for $3.5B battery plant, will hire 2,200 people

    1. Joe B, I would like to think that Indiana should market itself differently to lure workers from neighboring states. Basically, if a company builds a major factor in Indiana, im sure people from all over would mover here to fill those jobs. No one state can supply all the workers needed, so im sure even Texas, California, Georgia, Florida ect all depend on people from other states moving in to help their states economies. Indiana has to rebrand itself and take a page from those states that are successful but the governing body in Indiana has to change its mindset. They’re way out of step with the generation and business atmosphere of today. We’re stuck in the 80’s here and that’s why even homegrown talent leave for more progressive thinking states.

    2. Indiana should market itself differently, I agree. But companies aren’t going to build here unless we bribe them with incentives and, even then, why would workers want to move here in a red hot labor market?

      We consistently refuse to invest in the future and we have no interest in being a state appealing to outsiders. We apparently want to be the Mississippi of the North, and the only workers we get are for distribution centers … which automation will replace soon enough.

      We are the fools in the Bible who, when given money to invest, instead bury it.

  1. Once again, Ohio and MIchigan and Illinois come out on top in these selection processes.
    We don’t have the political clout to win these things. Too bad.

    1. Has Illinois landed even a single major EV investment yet?

      Regardless, the real competition is China, and within the US the Sunbelt. This is true for nearly all forms of advanced manufacturing from chips to electric vehicles. The fact that Midwest states win a few nice deals shouldn’t distract us from understanding that overall trend.

  2. HEY! we have a fat bank account,BUT in Indiana, we won’t support schools, sidewalks, childcare, preschools, kindergarten, rual roads, really most any modern quality of life issues.

    we lost amazon for same issue(s) 😥

    We’re to damn cheap for own good..

  3. “A state that works.” Does that motto refer to the state government? Or to the state’s private sector workforce? Either way, it seems the motto does not accurately reflect the truth of what happens (or, more accurately, what doesn’t happen) in Indiana.

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