Volkswagen will build its first North American battery plant in Canada, as US president Joe Biden’s multibillion-dollar package of green incentives speeds up its plans for the rollout of electric vehicles on the continent.
The German carmaker on Monday said its battery arm PowerCo would build its first plant outside Europe in St Thomas, Ontario, as the group’s “growth strategy” in the region was being “fast-forwarded”.
VW had told EU officials that it was putting on hold a planned battery plant in eastern Europe while it waited for the bloc to respond to Washington’s $369bn package of subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act.
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