<story><title>North America is now the growth leader for new battery factories</title><url>https://electrek.co/2023/05/31/north-america-battery-factories/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>version_five</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know about the US but Canada spent an absurd amount of public money to subsidize manufacturers and convince them to come. That is why they&amp;#x27;re here, and they&amp;#x27;ll leave the second we stop paying them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tracker1</author><text>While I mostly agree, I think that many corporate leaders are starting to realize there&amp;#x27;s other reasons to choose to build in a country beyond the bottom line numbers.  There&amp;#x27;s ongoing relations, restrictions and even supported&amp;#x2F;sanctioned IP&amp;#x2F;Design theft to consider.  For better or worse, making anything is largely going to be global, and a big part is going to come down to not just payments, but other incentives to produce in a given region.&lt;p&gt;I think that the US and Canada are more incentivized to be competitive.  My biggest concern is dealing with runoff&amp;#x2F;waste from production facilities.  I&amp;#x27;m also concerned that rapidly expanding EV is too far ahead of grid support, not to mention even recent legislation restricting new car sales to only 3rd party dealers (middlemen taking big cuts), and they don&amp;#x27;t want to sell EVs that require less maintenance.</text></comment>
<story><title>North America is now the growth leader for new battery factories</title><url>https://electrek.co/2023/05/31/north-america-battery-factories/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>version_five</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know about the US but Canada spent an absurd amount of public money to subsidize manufacturers and convince them to come. That is why they&amp;#x27;re here, and they&amp;#x27;ll leave the second we stop paying them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>Companies don&amp;#x27;t just abandon billion-dollar-plus factories.</text></comment>