Rivian restarting work on its Georgia factory, emails show

Rivian will continue preparations for the scheduled Georgian factory in August, and in early next year, the emails obtained at the request of public records want to break the place yet according to TechCrunch.

The re-launched efforts, the energy department of the Biden Administration, approved a $ 6.6 billion loan intended to finance the construction of the construction.

Rivian led to more than $ 41 million in June 2025, 2025 to June 2025, more than $ 41 million and a $ 41 million in emails. The project has created 46 full jobs so far. In August, Rivian will start installing “Deep Utility”, and by email in the first quarter of 2026 “Vertical Construction”.

The company also reaches existing suppliers to see what they want to find together near the Georgia factory, the provision of emails. When Rivian also opened in 2028, R2 SUV and R3 asked the State Economic Development Department for the list of the list of suppliers that can help build a hike.

To restart the project, this push, the founder of Riva and CEO RJ Terrius met with the governor Brian Kemp at the end of May. The company’s Corporate Affairs Director informed the Governor’s office in an e-mail where the meeting was the “most priority”.

Peebles Squire, who has a spokesman for Rivian, was a “regular inspection” in the meeting between fear and the governor.

“We discussed our ongoing work in Georgia and discussed the way we can continue the general project updates, as well as the strong partnership with the state,” he said. The press secretary of the governor did not meet the desires.

Rivana First declared In late 2021, the Georgian factory in late 2021. Company planned In 2022, he will start construction and start production of vehicles until 2024 and run by 2024. This promises to invest $ 5 billion in May 2022, and Rivian made a $ 1.5 billion stimulus for this.

Factory quickly faced the local opposition. The project, Rivian, R1T Pickup truck and R1S SUV’s normal, Illinois, in the original factory in the original factory, took the back seat because the supply chain was employed.

As a result, Illinois returned the schedule for the Georgian project in favor of the expansion of the normal factory that promotes $ 827 million in the $ 827 million incentive. The company announced this delay in 2024 when R2 SUV and R3 het.

In the late 2024, the Rivian energy department said the $ 6.6 billion loan was provided. Especially the loan will come from the same effort that helps Tesla visit the great decline in the same effort.

This loan agreement ended a few days before the Sun of Donald Trump, and at this point, the agreement has already become a target of some people in the new president’s orbit. Vivek Ramaswamy, who at some point, said that Elon Musk was said to be in a point in the government’s efficiency department wanted to return the loan.

After the Trump office, his leadership frozen all kinds of expenditures. Some of these ice creams turned upside down by lower district courts, while others left the plot because the Supreme Court allowed the president to operate more freely.

As he led in February, as the government freezes these expenses, Governor Kemp said that the loan was not sure.

(Squire, in Email, Rivian, with “DOE and Management”, and back to the United States, must maintain good payment, the role of global strategic industry and the United States in the United States. “)

A few weeks after March, the emails showed, the Rivian Governor and the Board of Directors began to coordinate face-to-face between Kemp and intimidation. First, the meeting was to be rescheduled on April 9, because the Rivian CEO was “a personal conflict rise.”

Corporate Director of Corporate Affairs for Rivian Andrew Capezzuto, said that an e-mail that does not apologize for the reconstrumentation of the meeting was “priority”.

Capezzuto, as a new time for fear and Kemp, was also in regular contact with the Georgian Economic Development Administration (GCED), Email Shows.

“[W]E, the supplier is interested in withdrawing conversations. “He said. He was the team on April 8.

“We will help GDECD develop general information to a suppliers within GDECD’s Gedecd’s Georgian and the larger southern region, which we can not see what the list and parts are, and that we cannot see what the existing suppliers can see and contain. [sic] To support the SSN facility in Georgia. “

TechCrunch in an email “There is a very strong car supplier base in Georgia and the southeast. We want to use this base to optimize logistics costs and strengthen a strong supply chain.

According to Rivian, the company is treating the company, the company also begins employees to support the construction of the factory. Over the past month, including the first for the construction manager, the first wrote seven open roles.