Foxconn considers Wisconsin, Mexico for electric vehicle plant

The Taiwanese company’s chairman said Foxconn will make the decision between Wisconsin and Mexico later this year.

Major Apple Inc supplier Foxconn may make electric vehicles at its high-profile but troubled plant in the United States state of Wisconsin, though could decide on Mexico, the chairman of the Taiwanese company said on Tuesday. Foxconn announced a $10bn investment in Wisconsin at a 2017 White House ceremony, touted by then-President Donald Trump as proof of his ability to revive US manufacturing, but its future has been uncertain. Foxconn initially sought to make advanced large-screen displays for TVs there. It later said it would build smaller liquid crystal display screens instead, and then said it would likely build servers.