Michigan town battles Chinese firm’s lawsuit over EV battery project: ‘Elected to protect the people’ [Video]

A small Michigan town is fighting back after being sued by a multi-billion-dollar Chinese energy company over residents’ opposition to its electric vehicle (EV) battery project in the community.

“We were elected to protect the people in our township,” Green Charter Township Supervisor Jason Kruse told “Fox & Friends First,” Wednesday.

The lawsuit, filed by Gotion Inc. – whose parent company, Gotion High-Tech is based in Hefei, China, and has documented ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) – is the latest escalation in a months-long feud over building production plants in the tiny U.S. town.

MASSIVE CHINESE FIRM SUES SMALL MICHIGAN TOWN OVER OPPOSITION TO CONTROVERSIAL EV BATTERY PROJECT

The issue dates back to October 2022, when Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Gotion would invest $2.4 billion to construct two large production plants along with other supporting facilities in Green Charter.

In the months that followed, the township approved a resolution in support of Gotion’s …