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Tennessee will be an Electric Vehicle Charger Manufacturing Hub
LEBANON, TN - Today, President Biden announced that Tritium, an Australia-based electric vehicle charger manufacturer, will open its first U.S. facility in Lebanon, Tennessee. This facility will produce up to 30,000 DC Fast Chargers each year and create 500 local jobs.
The Biden administration published a fact sheet that listed a series of announcements from manufacturers all planning to expand their U.S. operations for producing EV charging equipment. The effort aims to ensure that the transition to electric vehicles creates good-paying jobs, invests in workforce development, and benefits communities in the United States.
This follows announcements from Ford to produce electric vehicle batteries and General Motors and Volkswagen to add electric vehicle production to their plants in Tennessee
Derrick Figures, Director of the Sierra Club’s Labor and Economic Justice Program, released the following statement:
“The new clean transportation manufacturing jobs in Tennessee and across the country are essential for reducing pollution and rebuilding the middle class. The U.S. has a critical opportunity to be a leader in the transition to electric vehicles by investing and expanding domestic manufacturing capacities. It’s essential we do this in a way that dismantles the barriers to economic prosperity and social justice so many underserved populations and communities of color in this region experience.”
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