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A Jeep plant that closed last year will be among those getting federal subsidies to help automakers and create jobs.
By Jack Ewing
The federal government will donate $1. 7 billion to auto and auto parts plants in eight states to begin generating electric vehicles and other electric power technologies, Biden’s leadership announced Thursday.
Among the 11 beneficiaries will be a Jeep plant in Belvidere, Illinois, which the brand’s parent company, Stellantis, closed last year. The money will allow the plant to reopen and produce electric vehicles, officials said, restoring about 1,450 jobs.
Other beneficiaries include a factory in Georgia that plans to make Blue Bird electric school buses, a General Motors plant in Michigan that will shift its production from gas-powered cars to electric cars and a Harley-Davidson plant in Pennsylvania that will increase its production of electric motorcycles .
The investment is helping to address concerns that electric cars would jeopardize jobs at factories that make gasoline-powered cars or parts for internal combustion engines as the industry shifts to electric cars. To qualify for this money, corporations had to dedicate themselves to training their existing workers.
Workers in all selected factories are represented through industrial unions. Officials said they prioritize communities that suffer disproportionately from pollutants or a lack of investment.
Several of these plants are in Pennsylvania, Michigan or Georgia, states where the final results of the presidential elections will be known by narrow margins. President Biden, in a statement, sought to contrast his trade policies with those of former President Donald J. Trump.
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