{"id":71786,"date":"2026-01-20T18:49:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T23:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bridgemi.com\/?p=71786"},"modified":"2026-01-20T18:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T23:55:19","slug":"gotion-green-township-owes-us-significant-monetary-damages-for-failed-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgemi.com\/business-watch\/gotion-green-township-owes-us-significant-monetary-damages-for-failed-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotion: Green Township owes us \u2018significant monetary damages\u2019 for failed deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Gotion Inc. is threatening to ask for monetary damages in its lawsuit against a Michigan township<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>In a letter to an appeals court judge, the battery company said opposition made building its factory \u2018impossible\u2019<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The township, however, pointed to the state ending its contract to give the company $175 million and said the lawsuit should be dismissed<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Gotion Inc. isn\u2019t done battling the Mecosta County township that resisted the plans by the company with Chinese ties to build a massive electric vehicle battery factory in Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a letter filed Tuesday in federal court, the company says it intends to seek \u201csignificant monetary damages\u201d from Green Charter Township for creating \u201can impossible environment to advance the project.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The letter comes four months after the Michigan Strategic Fund <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgemi.com\/business-watch\/michigan-gotion-battery-plant-plan-is-dead-after-years-of-controversy\/\">deemed the $2.4 billion project in default<\/a> for lack of progress and announced it would seek to recover $50 million in taxpayer subsidies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gotion contends the township caused the inaction on the site \u2014 and that could be impossible for the company to ever build there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bridgemi.com\/business-watch\/new-scrutiny-challenges-michigans-investment-gotion-ev-battery-plant\/\"><strong>New scrutiny challenges Michigan&#8217;s investment in Gotion EV battery plant<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bridgemi.com\/business-watch\/gotion-tiny-michigan-town-square-court-over-26b-battery-factory\/\">Gotion, tiny Michigan town square off in court over $2.6B battery factory<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"Michigan: Gotion battery plant plan is dead after years of controversy\u00a0\">Michigan: Gotion battery plant plan is dead after years of controversy\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Trying to build would have been \u201cfutile,\u201d wrote Gotion attorney K. Scott Hamilton of Dickinson Wright in Detroit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state \u201ctook advantage of Gotion\u2019s plight\u201d by issuing the default notice, he added, \u201cwhich has only confirmed Gotion\u2019s fear for the viability of the project.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamilton continued: \u201cIt has been made abundantly clear to Gotion that the township and its supporters intend to fight Gotion tooth-and-nail to prevent Gotion from bringing its project to the township.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The letter was filed as both Gotion and the Green Charter Township attorney responded to a US Court of Appeals question about whether their litigation \u2014 involving a lower court ruling that ordered the township to honor an August 2023 development deal \u2014 was now moot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project was announced to great fanfare in 2022, but became an issue in the presidential election because of Gotion\u2019s ties to China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Months after the project was announced, township officials authorized a plan to extend municipal water lines to pump 715,000 gallons of water a day into Gotion\u2019s factory.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But those officials were ousted by local residents in 2023 and new township leaders rescinded the deal, saying the prior administration had not been authorized to make the agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gotion won a temporary injunction in the US District Court, saying the township had to honor the deal while the township appealed to a higher court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robby Dube, a Minneapolis-based attorney for the township, asked the appeals judge to end the injunction, and send the case back to be dismissed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe plant will not be built,\u201d Dube wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is the consequence of Gotion\u2019s own inaction,\u201d Dube added. \u201cIt obtained the preliminary objection it sought, yet, after over 18 months, has not requested the township take a single action.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the interim, Dube said, Gotion announced plans to expand its factory in Manteno, Illinois, \u201cto replace the failed plant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some Michigan lawmakers remain <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgemi.com\/business-watch\/lawmakers-michigan-needs-to-disclose-details-of-failed-gotion-deal\/\">critical of the deal <\/a>and how it was awarded through the now-defunded Strategic Outreach and Attraction Reserve (SOAR) Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of unanswered questions here,\u201d Rep. Tom Kunse, R-Clare, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.house.mi.gov\/Committee\/CORP\">House subcommittee on Corporate Subsidies and State Investments<\/a> in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the subsidy, $125 million was not spent, but $50 million was given to The Right Place economic development group to aid Gotion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just over half of that was spent, the bulk of it on development land in the township that the state gave to Gotion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Green Charter Township has struggled to pay its legal bills, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9and10news.com\/2025\/09\/23\/northern-michigan-township-grapples-with-400k-budget-shortfall-due-to-legal-fees\/\">according to reports.<\/a> Mecosta County has contributed $193,000 toward the township\u2019s shortfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The electric battery company is blaming the Mecosta County community for the collapse of a once-ballyhooed project, filing court papers indicating it may seek \u2018significant monetary damages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":966,"featured_media":71788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_newspack_byline_active":false,"_newspack_byline":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[2438],"tags":[4,4328,10],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[2474],"class_list":["post-71786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-watch","tag-gotion","tag-top-of-homepage","tag-mi-corporate-subsidies","entry"],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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