Georgia Plant Update - What I saw on my visit

[FrankieJ]

I think the experience with the amount of rebuilding and expanding the Normal plant to fit their needs was part of the reason to build from scratch. It is faster to build a new house than rebuild an old one.

Certainly would have been better to build where there was not as much “NIMBY” resistance though.

No such NIMBY place exists.

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[kurtlikevonnegut]

I think that the video you posted was actually an "anti Rivian" one right? Isn't the stink about erosion or water run off with that fine fine red Georgia clay?

So have they "filled" the Normal plant? That is, do they have room to start an R2 line there and then move it or replicate it in GA when that plant is ready? I assume at the very least they could be producing motors and batteries in Normal for the R2s in GA and ship them down there so all they have to make is the frame/body/interior line initially and then they can move stuff over as available.

My understanding is that they are already producing the Enduro motors and assembling the battery packs in Normal.

 

[RivianRiverRat]

No such NIMBY place exists.

Don’t know if Alabama would welcome them with tax incentives and the states auto dealer franchise laws but google earth Greenbrier Al - the crop circles tract is the same size as the Normal tract
Mazda-Toyota and Amazon are up and running in my neck of the woods

 

[BigE]

I think that the video you posted was actually an "anti Rivian" one right? Isn't the stink about erosion or water run off with that fine fine red Georgia clay?

So have they "filled" the Normal plant? That is, do they have room to start an R2 line there and then move it or replicate it in GA when that plant is ready? I assume at the very least they could be producing motors and batteries in Normal for the R2s in GA and ship them down there so all they have to make is the frame/body/interior line initially and then they can move stuff over as available.

Yes it is a anti-Rivian group that made and posted the video. It’s one of the best drone video I’ve seen. I can understand local’s being upset, but that’s kind of life. Hopefully Rivian does a great job and builds a beautiful plant we can all be proud of.

 

[DuoRivians]

Rivian intends to build half of the site, capable of 200k vehicles, and then the second half as production rolls along. The first half is expected to be completed in 2025, with R2 cars produced in 2026.

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