By Brian Wheeler 

Charlottesville Tomorrow
Sunday, November 13, 2011

It’s not every day that a nationally recognized business and political leader comes to town to announce he is going to manufacture a new American car. 



A battery powered electric car.  

The offshoring of U.S. manufacturing jobs is a story about which we are all familiar. Some argue that America should focus increasingly on innovation and intellectual property. Then find cheap foreign labor to manufacture the products we invent, and that American consumers desire.

Terence R. McAuliffe, a candidate in Virginia’s 2009 Democratic gubernatorial primary and past chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has turned that equation around. He bought technology invented in China, and he’s opening the factory in America.

McAuliffe says he wants electric automobiles to be both affordable and built by U.S. workers, especially workers in economically depressed areas.  

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