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Hyundai is rapidly building its first US electric vehicle plant, with production on track for 2025
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A factory building is under construction at Hyundai's first U.S. plant for manufacturing electric vehicles on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, in Ellabell, Ga. Hyundai and battery-making partner LG Energy Solution are investing $7.6 million in the sprawling plant site west of Savannah, Ga., where the companies plan to make 300,000 electric vehicles and the batteries that power them each year. - photo by AP Photo/Russ Bynum
ELLABELL, Ga. (AP) — The steel skeletons of buildings where Hyundai will stamp, weld, paint and assemble electric vehicles in Georgia span more than a half mile on a sprawling site dotted with so many cranes, bulldozers and construction workers that it almost looks like they're building a small city. A year has passed since Hyundai Motor Group broke ground on the $7.6 billion vehicle and battery plant, the South Korean automaker's first U.S. factory dedicated to producing EVs. Hyundai officials said more than 2,000 people are working each week on the rapidly progressing project west of Savannah, which the company calls its American “metaplant.” “The site is advancing every day as we work diligently to complete this amazing project," Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America CEO Oscar Kwon told reporters visiting the site Wednesday.