back to Columbus in an operation that will employ nearly 700 workers developing hydrogen fuel cells on the Far West Side.
That's up from 82,281 in 2011 and it's nearly three times the employment that would be expected in an economy Ohio's size, he said."On top of these announcements, we have engineering schools including Ohio State and Case Western that are graduating new talent all the time. The companies involved certainly must have been recruiting here. That will help reduce some of the state’s brain drain and may give us some brain gain.
Beyond that, there are too many unknowns for now about how the transition will affect jobs in the auto industry, he said. Automation and robots may have more to do with auto employment in the future than electric vehicles, he said.