The EV Industry Grows The Auto Workforce

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The EV Industry Grows The Auto Workforce

Contrary to early predictions, U.S. auto plants producing electric vehicles (EVs) have needed more workers than those making traditional gas-powered cars. A study from the University of Michigan shows that during the shift to large-scale EV production, the number of assembly jobs at some plants grew by as much as 10 times. At one factory with over a decade of EV production, it still takes three times as many workers to build an EV as it did to b…