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    The Sun Belt is making a big play for the hot electric vehicle market

    Georgia recently nabbed an agreement for a $5 billion Rivian electric vehicle plant. Rivian is one of the hot new electric vehicle startups.
    by Sam Gringlas Dec 28, 2021 3 minutes
    Rivian has made only a few hundred electric pickups. But investors are betting on its future.

    With two gleaming pickup trucks and the Georgia Capitol's gold dome behind him, Gov. Brian Kemp announced a $5 billion electric vehicle plant was coming to Georgia.

    At the rollout event earlier this month, Kemp called his state the economic engine of the Southeast "and now a world leader in electric vehicles and electric mobility."

    A bold statement, to be sure, but the company Kemp helped lure to Georgia is indeed Ford Motor Co. Amazon has committed to buying 100,000 of Rivian's electric delivery vans.

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