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Any GTAM'ers own an electric vehicle?
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Beat me to it. I understand a handful of workers being brought in for lead / PM roles that are familiar with THAT particular company / plant.
But 1600….someone doesn’t want to pay union rates to build it…or someone is making bank on allowing this to happen.
Windsor police say they expect 1,600 Koreans to work at EV battery plant — The Globe and Mail
Pierre Poilievre calls on Ottawa to make the contract with Stellantis and South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution public
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Electric car shock: Ontario man told new battery would cost more than $50,000 | Globalnews.ca
A warning light appeared on the instrument panel of Simrat Sooch's electric car, a 2017 Hyundai Ioniq. He was told he needed to buy a new battery — for $50,000.
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That’s obscene. How does one justify a 50k price of a battery for this car that’s what I’m curious about.Electric car shock: Ontario man told new battery would cost more than $50,000 | Globalnews.ca
A warning light appeared on the instrument panel of Simrat Sooch's electric car, a 2017 Hyundai Ioniq. He was told he needed to buy a new battery — for $50,000.
Now the guy doesn’t have a car, will get a small ‘market value’ amount to shut him up because his car has 172k on the clock.
Wow…
Sounds a lot like a dealership that is digging in their heels and is anti-ev. Not sure how the whole incomplete diagnostics mess happened before a 50k estimate.
As for the size of the estimate, Try taking a six year old ICE vehicle with a blown motor to a dealership for a replacement engine. While I don't expect 50k, I do expect a number that is beyond the value of the vehicle. Go to an indy shop that installs used engines/batteries and the entire picture changes. Scrapping it was idiotic and there is more to this story.
Meh, needs a new battery, that puts an LS V8 swap on the table....
Has anyone done an LS hyundai? Presumably, mto wouldn't know and you could have green plates. Resale will probably be nothing though as I doubt it can pass a safety.
Unless you take it to Ted...
Us ballers run nitrogen.
Costco has free nitrogen now beside the garage. Is it still baller if it's free?
Free is the ballest of the baller.
Forget leaving the house for nitrogen, I have the special attachment on my compressor at home that gives me 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen. Right there in my own driveway, how baller is that!
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A component "like the battery" could fail costings tens of thousands of dollars. Yeah, or the engine in a conventional car. Failures happen and it sucks when they do.
Mad Mike
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It's very likely temp foreign workers are necessary to get what is ostensibly a Korean-designed battery manufacturing plant up online. Where are you going to find the skilled labour (programmers, techs, lab workers) for making batteries on this scale in Canada?
Importing 1600 out of 2300 seems high. I've gone to South Korea in a similar scenario but Korean workers far outnumbered foreigners in that case. You need some people that have seen the installation before and can direct but there is no way that 70% of the workers are required to have knowledge that is specialized enough that it can't be found here. That is a cost-saving (or potentially time-saving) play. Korean workers have a far different work ethic than Canadian union members.
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