Rivian will repeat preparations for the planned agricultural plant in August and is still looking for the ground early next year, according to TechCrunch e -mail acquired through a public file request.
The restart of the effort comes months after the Biden administration’s energy section approved a loan of $ 6.6 billion aimed at funding.
Rivian has invested more than $ 80 million in the project on June 20, 2025, from $ 41 million in July 2024, according to a progress report submitted to the local joint development authority included in emails. The project has created 46 full -time jobs so far. Rivian will begin installing “deep auxiliary programs” in August, with the “vertical construction” that will begin in the first quarter of 2026, according to emails.
The company also approaches existing suppliers to see which ones may want to co-locate near the Georgian plant, emails. Rivian also asked the State Economic Development Department for a list of suppliers already in the area that may be able to help build the R2 SUV and R3 Hatchback at the factory when it opens in 2028.
In the midst of this push for the restart of the project, the founder and CEO of Rivian RJ Scaringe met with State Governor Brian Kemp in late May. The company’s corporate affairs manager told the governor’s office in an email that the meeting was a “top priority” for the company.
Peebles Squire, a Rivian spokesman, said the meeting between Scaringe and the ruler was a “regular check-in”.
“We discussed our ongoing work in Georgia and provided general project updates as well as discussing ways in which we can continue to have strong cooperation with the state,” he wrote in an email at TechCrunch. The governor’s press secretary did not respond to comments.
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Rivia announced for the first time The Georgian plant shortly after its IPO in late 2021, the company was originally planning to start construction in 2022 and have the production of vehicles by 2024. It promised to invest $ 5 billion in the facility and in May 2022, Rivian reported $ 1.5 billion.
The plant quickly faced the local opposition. And the project took a back seat, as Rivian worked on a lack of supply chain during the increase in the R1T and R1S SUV truck at its original Normal plant, Illinois.
Rivian finally pushed back the timetable for Georgia’s work in favor of expanding the regular factory, for which it earned $ 827 million in motivation from Illinois. The company announced this delay in 2024 when it first showed the R2 SUV and R3 Hatchback.
At the end of 2024, Rivian announced that it had secured the loan of $ 6.6 billion from the Ministry of Energy’s loan programs office. Specifically, the loan will come from the advanced technology vehicles program, which is the same effort that has helped Tesla navigate the Great Recession more than a decade ago.
The loan agreement was completed just a few days before Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term and from that point the deal had already become the target of some people in the orbit of the new president. Vivek Ramaswamy, who at one point is supposed to coincide with the efficiency of the Ministry of Government of Elon Musk, said he I wanted to consider loan assumption.
After Trump was undertaken, his administration froze all kinds of expenses. Some of these freezes were reversed by the lower regional courts, while others remained in place, as the Supreme Court mainly allowed the president to operate more freely.
In February, as the administration was a hot carbine that raised these expenses throughout the government, Governor Kemp told a local news station that he was not sure of the loan status.
(Squire, at e -mail, said Rivian continues to work “with Doe and Administration to bring thousands of quality, to return to the United States.
Just a few weeks later, in March, the show The Emails, Rivian began to coordinate with his staff on face -to -face between Kemp and Scaringe. Initially, the meeting took place on April 9, the meeting had to be rescheduled because the CEO of Rivia had a “personal conflict”.
Andrew Capezzuto, Rivian Corporate Affairs Manager, said the meeting was a “top priority” in an apologetic email on adjustment.
As Capezzuto spread a new era to meet Scaringe and Kemp, they were also in regular contact with the GCED Economic Development Department (GCED), emails.
“[W]E is interested in picking up the suppliers’ talks, “he told the team on April 8.
“I believe that a little behind GDECD had prepared an overview of existing agriculture suppliers and the wider southeastern region. [sic] In Georgia to support the SSN facility. ”
In an email to TechCrunch, Squire said that “Georgia and the southeast have a very strong basis for car suppliers, we want to use this basis to optimize supply costs and enhance a strong supply chain.
As Rivian accelerates this supplier’s activity, the company also begins to hire employees to support the building of the factory. He has published seven open roles on LinkedIn last month, including one for Manager Construction.
