Study — “30% fewer workers for EV assembly: harbinger or myth?”

Peer-reviewed analysis (Nature Communications, Sept 2024) examining labor impacts of the EV transition. Finds that U.S. plants shifting from internal combustion to battery electric vehicle (BEV) assembly often required more—not fewer—workers to maintain equivalent output. Suggests broad job losses at EV assembly sites are less likely than feared, and calls for region-specific workforce analyses.