Vietnam car maker begins build for North Carolina electric vehicle plant

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We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
MONCURE, N.C. (AP) — A Vietnamese company planning an electric vehicle plant in central North Carolina that would employ 7,500 workers met a milestone Friday as its top executive joined Gov. Roy Cooper and others for a ground-breaking ceremony.

VinFast announced last year that it would build its first manufacturing facility outside Vietnam in Chatham County, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southwest of Raleigh.

The planned $4 billion investment also would create North Carolina’s first car manufacturing plant and North Carolina's largest-ever, state-backed economic development project as far as job creation, according to news outlets. North Carolina had missed out on car plants over the years to other Southeastern states.


https://news.yahoo.com/vietnam-car-maker-begins-build-193652660.html
 
guno said:
MONCURE, N.C. (AP) — A Vietnamese company planning an electric vehicle plant in central North Carolina that would employ 7,500 workers met a milestone Friday as its top executive joined Gov. Roy Cooper and others for a ground-breaking ceremony.

VinFast announced last year that it would build its first manufacturing facility outside Vietnam in Chatham County, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southwest of Raleigh.

The planned $4 billion investment also would create North Carolina’s first car manufacturing plant and North Carolina's largest-ever, state-backed economic development project as far as job creation, according to news outlets. North Carolina had missed out on car plants over the years to other Southeastern states.


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Right to work state.
 
May 25, 2023
About 999 vehicles are affected by the recall, the first batch of EVs that VinFast shipped to the United States, according to a filing with the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Of these 999, 111 are in customer hands and 153 are in fleet service. VinFast still has 735 vehicles in its possession. VinFast said it is aware of 18 reported occurrences on 14 vehicles.

The recall comes nearly three months since the company delivered its first VF8 City Edition to a U.S. customer. The vehicle has been widely criticized by automotive media outlets largely due to its ride quality and other issues, including software malfunctions.
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https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/25/vinfast-recalls-evs-sent-to-u-s-over-a-software-glitch/
 
The VinFast VF8 Is Simply Not Ready for America
The electric-car startup brought me to its Vietnam headquarters to drive its first EV meant for the U.S. market. It was the most bizarre experience of my life.

Full Disclosure: VinFast flew me from Columbus, Ohio, to San Francisco, put me in a really nice hotel for one night, then flew me and at least 100 other journalists, influencers, YouTubers, TikTokers, VinFast reservation holders (called VinFirst), VinFast employees, and other persons of interest from SFO to Vietnam on a chartered plane, all so we could sample the company’s new EVs. We stayed at two private-island resorts and spent a night in Hanoi at the same hotel where Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un met for the first time.
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VinFast had spent hours entertaining us — including a wordless pantomime stage performance at dinner one night, featuring a projection-mapped castle claimed to have cost millions of dollars but identical to the tech used in student art projects at colleges everywhere — and we still hadn’t driven a single vehicle. It’s not that I didn’t appreciate the hospitality. I just wanted to learn whether the cars were any good.

If my initial drive of a pre-production VinFast VF8 the next day is anything to go by, the answer is: No, the cars are not very good at all.
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https://jalopnik.com/vinfast-vf8-electric-car-first-drive-not-ready-for-u-s-1849892217
 
Tinkerpeach said:
Good for North Carolina on creating jobs.
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North Carolina created jobs. Did you type that? WOW
I saw one of those cars on the road a few weeks ago. It was different looking and I did not know what it was until I got online. It was pretty big and not sleek.
 
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Nordberg said:
North Carolina created jobs. Did you type that? WOW
I saw one of those cars on the road a few weeks ago. It was different looking and I did not know what it was until I got online. It was pretty big and not sleek.
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Your link says they are so why wouldn't I say it?
 
Nordberg said:
Vinfast created jobs. NC just exempted them from paying taxes.
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That's how you get business, besides they will get more money from the 7500 people working there then they would taxing the company.

This is how business works.

This is what democrats don't understand.

They want to tax corporations at extremely high rates to pay for their social programs then wonder why the corporation left their state.

This is what California is experiencing right now.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Tested: 2023 VinFast VF8 Proves Building Cars Is Hard
https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a43878817/2023-vinfast-vf8-by-the-numbers/

2023 VinFast VF8 First Drive: Return to Sender
https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2023-vinfast-vf8-electric-suv-first-drive-review/

Looks like VinFast is in for a rough ride...
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I remember when Kia and Hyundai were considered substandard. Good that a Vietnamese company is making an effort . They’re not exactly third world. I been there.
They’ll catch up. And they’ll be part of the western alliance along with s. Korea, Taiwan Japan, et Al.
 
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