Despite a series of bad auto industry news in recent weeks, Volkswagen says it's all systems go for the company's plans to build a massive electric vehicle battery plant in St. Thomas, Ont.

This week the company announced foundations were being poured for three buildings that together will form the massive, 850,000-square-foot plant northeast of St. Thomas.

The plant being built by PowerCo, a subsidiary of Volkswagen, is on a hiring blitz with plans for the plant to support 3,000 workers once production starts in 2027.

The company's chief hiring officer Norman Wickboldt was interviewed in a YouTube video by St. Thomas Economic Development recently, saying PowerCo has hired about 250 people, many of them working out of the company's temporary office in downtown St. Thomas.

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