Four years ago Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn made a big splash at the White House when it announced it was investing $10 billion to build a state-of-art factory in Wisconsin. Fast-forward to 2021 and the future of the troubled factory is still in doubt. Foxconn Chairman Liu Young-way announced in a news conference in Taipei Tuesday that the Wisconsin factory now may be used to build electric vehicles due to its proximity to Detroit. "Because EV is very much related to electronics, so we will do a lot of the work heavily dependent on the electronics and software for the EV. So we thought, oh, maybe this is a good place."This isn’t the first pivot for the factory that has failed to live up to the hype. It was supposed to revive American manufacturing in the heartland by eventually creating 13,000 jobs in Wisconsin – first by building LCD screens, then computer servers. But that never happened, forcing Foxconn to forgo promised state tax breaks for two ye ....