The last of 14,000 or so structural steel beams is lowered into place in February at the $2.3 billion Ultium Cells LLC facility in Lordstown. General Motors, a 50 percent investor in the plant, is being recognized by the Youngstown Warren Regional Chamber for the investment, but the award is raising the eyebrows of some union members and former assembly plant workers.
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LORDSTOWN Giving General Motors an award for the impact it’s made in the community is “like a smack in the face” to the former workers and their families displaced when the automaker closed its Lordstown assembly plant, its former union leader said.
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Hi friends and new readers, welcome back to The Station, a newsletter dedicated to all the present and future ways people and packages move from Point A to Point B.
In last week’s newsletter, I described some of the changes coming to TechCrunch’s transportation coverage, including “market maps.” These articles, which will always run in Extra Crunch, focus on a particular slice of the transportation industry, along with other mobility-related analysis.
The first of these took a deep dive into the solid state battery industry. As Mark Harris reported: “For the last decade, developers of solid state battery systems have promised products that are vastly safer, lighter and more powerful. Those promises largely evaporated into the ether leaving behind a vapor stream of disappointing products, failed startups and retreating release dates.”