LOL!!! I don't know how many BILLIONS were subsidized to NorthVolt for their facility in Québec only for the company to see sales decrease and the value of their materials drop because people aren't buying overpriced EVs. I mean people can't afford their fucking rent and food, let alone a god damn car.
Now the companies are rolling back in their development of new battery manufacturing plants after they've been given billions. Billions that were needed for funding mass public transit projects in major cities, build social housing and financing food banks which have seen an explosion in demand and can't keep up.
But NOOOOO. Let's give these billions to private companies in the hopes that maybe, one day, 10 years from now, we'll START to see that money slowly coming back.