Electric Vehicles

Gotion, a Chinese-owned advanced battery manufacturing company, says it won't pay back a $23.7 million grant from the state of Michigan, after its project to build a massive EV battery plant in Mecosta County failed.

New U-M survey finds only about 5% of rural Michigan residents say they would choose an electric vehicle as their next car.

In a new legal filling, China-based company Gotion is seeking fiscal damages from Green Chart Township. They argue the township’s opposition to the plant constituted a contract breach and has rendered the plant “no longer viable.”

The Michigan Economic Development Corporation said in a letter made public on Thursday that the Chinese company Gotion Inc. has not met its contractual obligations.

WDET caught up with the junior senator at the 2025 Mackinac Policy Conference to talk about proposed cuts to Medicaid, supporting EV manufacturing and more.

A Michigan State University professor says the slowdown is in response to a combination of softening sale performances and the incoming Trump administration.

A $4.4 million EPA grant will pay for 15 EV heavy-duty trucks used for picking up recycled goods, replacing diesel trucks in some communities in Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne counties.

Chen Li, the president of Gotion High-Tech will be deposed by the lawyers of Green Charter Township, a small Michigan city outside of Big Rapids where a multi-billion-dollar EV battery plant is set to be constructed.

Chinese battery maker Gotion has filed in federal court looking to seek a protective order that would stop their company president, Chen Li, from being deposed in a lawsuit centered around an EV battery manufacturing plant near Big Rapids.

State officials discussed how they can ease Michigan's shift toward clean energy and electric vehicles in Detroit Monday.