LSV Chinese factory In Canada - Saint John New Brunswick

[Lessss]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2012/03/26/nb-electric-cars-saint-john.html

Jason Yuan, the chief executive officer of Ningbo Jiuding Machinery Co. Ltd., has been touring possible locations for a factory in the Port City.
Yuan plans to bring a prototype city-car to Saint John and attempt to get it approved before setting up shop.

"We're going to design this as an electronic car,” he said. “It's for the daily drive, short distance, just in the city."

The cars will be capable of 50 km/h, said Yuan.

So Low speed vehicles which currently the N.B. won't allow on the road.
However with the autopact It looks like the Chinese are looking to hedge their bets on Shipments from China to the US directly. The N.B. port is also a good position for shipments to the Caribbean, Africa, and possibly Europe.

Of course It will be good for me and possibly ES If I can get hold of battery packs through them.

[Lessss]

Of course NEV/LSV aren't legal in N.B. They are in Quebec. So I predict the plant will go to Montreal unless the N.B. legislature gets off it's ass and passes NEV/LSV legislation ASAP.

[Jay64]

There's a twist. China is outsourcing now.

[iamsofunny]

China has no marginal electricity generation capacity. Their coal reserves are dwindling. Obviously their oil supply is unstable. Their land and buildings are too expensive. In Canada they can buy a huge pile of land and temporarily get a bunch of Chinese workers to build the factory for cheap, while shipping out cars to overseas markets. China is getting expensive. Try buying anything from them. Their minimum orders are up there and their prices have come up a lot. Look at aluminum tubing. Chinese sell it for over $2-4 per pound plus freight. Kaiser US sells it for 2.50 plus shipping and you don't have to wait 6 weeks. Look at computers on aliexpress. It's cheaper to go to Futureshop. All small electronics factories are being built in Vietnam. All clothes are being made in Cambodia, VIetnam, Indonesia, Dominican Republic, even Haiti.

China still wins for huge volumes of cheap tools, batteries, housewares.

[Dauntless]

There's a twist. China is outsourcing now.

Say, you don't suppose they're planning to build something that actually WORKS RIGHT, do you? Maybe they're not planning on sending Chinese workers over, maybe they'll let Canadians do it. Can anything think of a nonmilitary outsourcing of the location but the labor is sent over?