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Rivian to Resume Construction of $5B Georgia EV Plant in 2026

Electrical car maker Rivian is getting ready to renew work on its paused $5-billion manufacturing plant in Social Circle, Ga., in response to the corporate.

The producer scheduled a ceremonial groundbreaking for September and is on observe to start building subsequent yr, firm consultant Peebles Squire says. The startup will nonetheless use its initially chosen contractor, Clayco, for the job.

The plan requires a 16-million-sq-ft manufacturing plant on an 1,800-acre campus. Will probably be in-built two phases, every including manufacturing capability for 200,000 automobiles, Squire says. 

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) initially introduced Rivian’s plan to construct the plant in 2021. In 2023, the corporate mentioned it selected Chicago-based Clayco to construct the ability, together with Jacobs as engineer and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill as design architect. However final yr, shortly after Rivian revealed a $5.4-billion loss over its prior fiscal yr, the corporate mentioned it might pause the project and produce an upcoming SUV at its current plant in Regular, Ailing., as an alternative of on the Georgia facility.

Just a few months later, Rivian introduced it might construct a $1.5-billion expansion on the Illinois plant. 

In January, Rivian closed a mortgage settlement with the U.S. Dept. of Vitality’s Mortgage Applications Workplace for as much as $6.6 billion to help the Georgia undertaking, on high of an incentive bundle from Georgia value $1.5 billion. Below phrases of an financial improvement settlement with the state, Rivian should make investments not less than $5 billion and create 7,500 full-time jobs by the top of 2030.

Final month, Rivian additionally introduced it might open an East Coast headquarters workplace in Atlanta, along with the manufacturing campus about 40 miles east of town. That workplace is scheduled to open this yr, with an growth to observe. 

Rivian’s Georgia manufacturing plant is about to start manufacturing in 2028, Squire says. 

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