BIDEN EV MANDATE NIGHTMARE UNFOLDS: Major Jeep Cherokee Plant Closes In IL…”increasing costs related to electrification of the automotive market” Blamed…Taxpayers Forced to Fund Chinese Battery Plants, While Car Batteries Catch Fire [VIDEO]

By Patty McMurray

On December 8, 2021, Joe Biden signed an executive order to ban the use and sale of internal combustion engine cars by 2035, forcing consumers across America to purchase only battery-operated vehicles.

 

Biden’s reckless mandate is causing auto-manufacturing plants in the US to shut down and move their operations overseas. In Michigan, Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer is being widely criticized for bringing a battery-manufacturing company with ties to Communist China to Michigan to build batteries at a cost of $236 million to Michigan taxpayers, while Ford Motor Company, which is headquartered in Michigan, announced in October 2021, that it would open two major electric vehicle and battery plants in Tennessee and Kentucky.

On October 5, 202s, Whitmer announced a $236 million incentive package for Our Next Energy, an electric vehicle battery startup that plans to build a factory in the Great Lakes State. Weeks later, the Democrat said she was “proud” to join the company’s founder and CEO, Mujeeb Ijaz, at a ribbon-cutting ceremony, which saw Whitmer laud Our Next Energy as “innovative,” “historic,” and “cutting-edge.” But Ijaz has a troubled history with public funding.

Before he launched Our Next Energy, Ijaz served as a top executive at fellow electric battery maker A123 Systems after founding its automotive division in 2008. One year later, A123 secured a $249 million grant from the Obama administration, with then-president Barack Obama predicting the company would “help power the American economy for years to come.” Instead, the opposite occurred. A123 lost $269 million during an eight-month period in 2012 alone, losses that were driven in part by the company’s production of defective battery cells for Fisker Automotive—on his LinkedIn, Ijaz specifically states he led A123’s production of “battery systems” for Fisker. In October 2012, A123 declared bankruptcy and was quickly sold to Chinese automotive conglomerate Wanxiang…

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