Fort Worth Is Among Potential Sites for Electric Vehicle Plant
North Texas has landed on the list of locations a Canadian vehicle manufacturer is scouting for a new plant.
Vancouver-based ElectraMeccanica Vehicles Corp., which designs and builds electric vehicles, is hunting a location for an assembly site and engineering technical center in the United States. Fort Worth is one of the half dozen cities on the company’s list.
The new facility will employ about 200 people. ElectraMeccanica plans to build its single-seat, three-wheeled Solo electric vehicle at the new plant. It hopes to zero in on a preferred location by the third quarter of this year.
ElectraMeccanica plans to start building its electric vehicles this year at a plant in Chongqing, China. But it’s looking for a U.S. plant site for expansion and tariff avoidance reasons.
“This strategic initiative will not only allow us to limit uncertainties in the global supply chain but also grow our talent pool of engineering resources and seize the tremendous market opportunities in the USA,” Rivera said in the statement.
The company is seeking economic development proposals from the states it is considering. Along with Fort Worth, ElectraMeccanica is looking at sites in Phoenix; Denver; Central Florida; Raleigh-Durham, N.C.; Nashville and Spartanburg, S.C...
