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Andrew Stuttaford of National Review Online reports on more bad news for electric vehicle boosters. The number of electric vehicles (EVs) sold in the U.S. will, I am sure, continue…
Nathan Jensen, a professor a the University of Texas, Austin, explains to readers of the New York Times that corporate incentives are simply political theater. We’ve made the same point,…
Actions have consequences, so how will President Trump’s tariffs impact the auto industry? From the American Journal of Transportation: The auto industry is warning that U.S. sales declines, which have…
The incentives game just keeps getting worse. It used to be that state and local governments would put together a package to help lure a large company for a major…
Last month, Toyota and Mazda chose to locate a new joint car plant in Alabama despite a $1.6 billion incentives package offered by N.C. Department of Commerce officials. The companies…
Recently, The Wall Street Journal featured a story about rural North Carolina’s perpetual economic struggle. Not even lucrative taxpayer-backed incentive packages can hard sell mega companies like Toyota, Mazda, or…
This week, The Wall Street Journal featured a story about rural North Carolina’s perpetual economic struggle. Not even lucrative taxpayer-backed incentive packages can hard sell mega companies like Toyota, Mazda,…
There's an honest case the governor, Commerce officials, and civic boosters could make to Amazon that would represent our best case without setting us up for fierce buyer's remorse:
Greensboro News & Record explores what now that Toyota-Mazda has rejected the Greensboro-Randolph megasite. As you can imagine, local officials are encouraged: Former Greensboro Mayor Jim Melvin, a key player…
I know it’s not a popular position, but I was actually relieved to see that North Carolina didn’t win the Toyota-Mazda plant. Why? Because, according to the Commerce Secretary, North…
Ok–to be fair, it probably was not easy to get reaction from local officials on Tuesday because the news that the Toyota-Mazda plant was going to Alabama instead of North…
Sam Hieb has already covered the local angle on the decision to put a new Toyota-Mazda assembly plant near Huntsville, Alabama, instead of a North Carolina mega-site near Liberty, despite…