Several Western electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers appear to have connections to a region of China…
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Several Western electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers appear to have connections to a region of China known for slave labor, The Washington Post reported.
The EV supply chains of Ford, Volkswagen and Tesla all appear to have links to Xinjiang Province, China, where the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) allegedly has detained and effectively enslaved Uyghur Muslims, which the State Department described as “genocide” in 2021, according to the Post. The U.S. government in 2021 banned “the importation of goods made with forced labor” from the region with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, according to the bill’s text.
The Post analyzed numerous financial disclosures, social media posts, expert reports and news articles to assert that these companies and their supply chains may be more closely-linked to forced labor in Xinjiang than they have claimed publicly. Tesla appears to use Xinjiang-linked components in its supply chain, Volkswagen(VW) operates a factory in Xinjiang with a Chinese partner firm and Ford partners with CATL, a company which maintains business relations with Xinjiang Zhicun Lithium, the owner of several key lithium mines in the region…
