(16 Mar 2021) Foxconn Technology Group, the world's largest electronics manufacturer, is considering making electric vehicles at its highly anticipated Wisconsin plant that has been scaled back since its announcement in 2017, the company's chairman said Tuesday.
The decision will be between whether to go to Mexico or the US for manufacturing electric vehicles, Foxconn Chairman Young Liu said at a news conference in Taipei, Taiwan's capital.
He said the decision, which will be finalised before July 1, will hinge on business, not politics.
The Wisconsin project was scaled back after Foxconn initially signed a contract with the state of Wisconsin under then-Gov. Scott Walker in 2017 to earn nearly 4 billion US dollars in state and local tax incentives for a 10 billion US dollars display screen manufacturing campus and plant that would employ up to 13,000 people.
But the Republican governor lost a re-election bid in 2018 to Democrat Tony Evers, who ran as a critic of the project.
After the deal was signed, Foxconn said it was downsizing the factory.
In October last year, the state of Wisconsin told Foxconn that it wouldn't qualify for billions of dollars in state tax credits unless it strikes a new deal for a scaled-back factory complex.
The two sides are now negotiating a new deal.
Foxconn, best known for making Apple iPhones, is now looking at the electric vehicle market, which automakers believe will dominate the industry in the coming years.
Liu said that the company wants to take 10% of the market share of EVs, whether the company manufactures entire vehicles or components.
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