Embattled Chinese battery maker Gotion vows ‘more vocal’ US strategy after filing lawsuit in Michigan


Days after a Chinese battery maker sued a Michigan community for breach of contract over a US$2.3 billion electric-vehicle plant it aims to build there, the company’s top North American official told the Post it was now going to be more outspoken.

“I think people have been hearing a lot of mistruths, fabrications for the last nine months,” Chuck Thelen, vice-president of North American manufacturing for Gotion Inc, said in an interview on Monday.

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