The automaker said it will use fans from the seats of F-150s and portable battery packs to build up to 1,000 respirators per month. It’s also planning to make 100,000 face masks per week and to help with an undisclosed number of ventilators.
Elon Musk said in a tweet he helped acquire 1,255 of the machines from China last week and arranged for them to be air-shipped to Los Angeles, where health officials fear a lack of supplies to treat COVID-19 patients.
There are currently no plans for House members to return to Washington to vote on the bill, and the proposal appears to be a list of demands Democrats want to see included in the Senate bill. Senate leaders expect a deal with Democrats as soon as this morning.
The Canadian province’s exempted list includes “car and truck dealerships and related facilities.” Several dealerships across Canada service and repair police vehicles, ambulances, firetrucks and delivery vehicles.
The automakers and their suppliers are seeing plants in China coming back online after closures related to the coronavirus pandemic.