That industry is dead on arrival. The UAW will kill it.
....and if they don't, think of the ecological disaster that one of those plants is sure to cause at some point in the future either from true accident or negligence.
And who controls the raw materials? Ain’t the US IIRC.
Yes, they will want starting salaries of $150k and 30 hour weeks. Meanwhile, China will come out with a battery twice as good for 1/4 the cost. But zero won't let them die. He will subsidize the US batteries and GM will use them.
Holland Michigan is the OPPOSITE of what you think when you think of Michigan. It is a very conservative pocket in Michigan (Congressman is Pete Hoekstra-R), and there is a LOT of anti- or at least non-union sentiment there.
When I grew up there, while Johnson was slamming Goldwater 60-40%, the result was the opposite in Holland, with 60% voting Goldwater, and little has changed since then.