South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor publicly broke ground at an opening ceremony for a $5.54 billion electric vehicle (EV) and battery plant in Georgia.
The new plant in Bryan County, which is 30 miles west of Savannah, is the biggest economic development project in Georgia’s history, after a series of new EV and battery project openings in the state.
Georgia’s governor, Brian Kemp, boasted that since 2020, the state has picked up 30 electric vehicle -elated projects that will ultimately result in a total of $13 billion in investments and nearly 19,000 new jobs.
Kemp, a Republican, and the state’s two Democrat senators, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, all attended the event….