The union has secured that workers at General Motors’ joint-venture battery plants will be covered under the Big Three master agreement. It’s a major step in a just transition.
There are also fewer parts to EVs, which means fewer parts to manufacture. Of course, the implication of that being an argument against EVs is that we should keep driving Rube Goldberg machines with more points of failure because that’s someone’s job - but nobody would bat an eye at having a robot do that job if it’s possible to.
There are also fewer parts to EVs, which means fewer parts to manufacture. Of course, the implication of that being an argument against EVs is that we should keep driving Rube Goldberg machines with more points of failure because that’s someone’s job - but nobody would bat an eye at having a robot do that job if it’s possible to.