Middle Tennessee finalist for electric vehicle factory

A Canadian electric car manufacturer has selected the Nashville area as a finalist for the location of its new manufacturing plant.

Vancouver-based ElectraMeccanica hopes to build a new plant to produce it’s tiny, three-wheeled SOLO model. The single passenger car has a range of 100 miles and a top speed of 80 miles per hour. The company claims that the proposed plant would generate between 200 and 500 jobs.