Mercedes-Benz retooled and added battery production to a plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In mid-April, the company will debut their EQS SUV, an EV equivalent to the GLS, with production starting at the Alabama plant a few months later.
Bigger. Better. Benz-er. Mercedes' battery plant is the first in the US and comes as part of a $1B expansion plan announced in 2017. The battery plant adds about 600 jobs to the newly retooled and reopened gigafactory, bringing the total employees at the Alabama location to 5,100.
Telling it like it is - Auto manufacturing jobs = cars for other people to get to their jobs. Win-win.