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An employee holds a full-size prototype LMR battery cell at the General Motors Wallace Battery Cell Innovation Center. GM has prototyped approximately 300 full-size LMR cells as it worked with LG Energy Solution to crack the code on the chemistry.

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  • Business

The great battery race: China and the U.S. compete over the future of EVs

The car you drive years in the future might run off a battery being invented in a lab today. Companies in China and the United States are racing to perfect and scale up next-generation technologies.

May 21, 2025
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  • Camila Domonoske and
  • John Ruwitch
Rivian SUV

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  • Economy

Georgia Rivian factory development continues as auto industry prepares for tariff impacts

After a pause in construction last year, development is underway again for the Rivian factory near Social Circle east of Atlanta.

April 04, 2025
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
Jeep Wrangler 4Xe plug-in hybrids displayed on the sales lot at Hilltop Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram in Richmond, California.

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  • Business

EV buyers who missed out on their tax credits now have a fix from the IRS

Some car owners couldn't claim the EV tax credit for vehicles purchased in 2024 because dealers skipped a key sales reporting step. The IRS is now offering a fix.

March 26, 2025
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
A 2025 model Hyundai Ioniq 5 electric SUV is seen Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024, after being unveiled at an auto dealership in Savannah, Ga. The car, made at Bryan County’s Hyundai Metaplant, qualifies for the $7,500 federal tax rebate for US made EVs. That rebate is a likely target for President Elect Trump.

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  • Economy

Report: Georgia leads nation in clean energy job growth

Georgia continues to lead the nation in the growth of clean energy transition related jobs. The federal spending spurring that growth is a likely target of the new Trump administration.

January 15, 2025
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
A Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck is displayed for sale at a Ford dealership in Glendale, Calif., in August. Some car shoppers are hurrying to finalize EV purchases while they can still be certain to get a hefty federal tax incentive.

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  • Business

The federal EV tax credit has an uncertain fate. What car shoppers should know

Currently, drivers can get a tax credit worth up to $7,500 for buying or leasing an EV. But the incoming administration promised to roll back those credits, which they consider wasteful spending.

December 16, 2024
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
The General Motors EV1 pioneered technology you can still find in electric vehicles today. Just over 1,000 were built, and the cars were only available for lease in a few states.

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  • History

This little electric car made history. 25 years ago, GM stopped making it

The EV1 was the first modern, mass-produced electric vehicle from a major automaker — pioneering some technologies you can still find in today's EVs. But the model was controversial, and short-lived.

December 09, 2024
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By:
  • Jack Mitchell
A truck leaves the site of a planned Rivian electric truck plant March 7, 2024, in Rutledge, Ga.

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  • News

Biden administration to loan $6.6B to EV maker Rivian to build Georgia factory that automaker paused

President Joe Biden's administration will loan $6.6 billion to electric vehicle maker Rivian Automotive to build a Georgia factory. The announcement Tuesday comes less than two months before Donald Trump becomes president again.

November 26, 2024
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  • Associated Press
A Tesla charges at a Tesla Supercharger in Petaluma, Calif., in May. Tesla's Supercharger network has more than 30,000 fast-charging ports — more than half of all the EV fast chargers available in the United States. Until recently, they were only open to Tesla drivers, but that's changing.

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  • Business

Tesla won the plug war. Enter the age of the EV charging adapter

The auto industry is embracing Tesla's charging technology in order to share its vast Supercharger network. This is going to be a slow transition — expect to see a lot of adapters.

November 22, 2024
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  • Camila Domonoske
The Hyundai company logo hangs over a long row of cars at a car dealership in Centennial, Colo., Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020. Georgia officials are close to finalizing a deal with the automaker to build a $5.5 billion electric car plant near Savannah, Ga. An economic development agency representing four Savannah-area counties approved its portions of the agreement Tuesday, July 19, 2022, including an economic incentives package.

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  • News

Hyundai has begun producing electric SUVs at its $7.6 billion plant in Georgia

Hyundai has begun producing electric SUVs in Georgia less than two years after breaking ground on its sprawling manufacturing plant west of Savannah. A statement from Hyundai Motor Group's factory in Georgia says it held an "employee-focused celebration" Thursday as its first EV for commercial sale rolled off the assembly line.

October 08, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Vice President Harris speaks during a rally on Oct. 4 in Flint, Mich.

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  • Politics

In Michigan, Harris hits back against Trump over his electric car attack lines

The Trump campaign is telling Michigan that Vice President Harris would ban gas-powered cars. At a rally in Flint, she pushed back – and said Trump would be bad for the state’s best-known industry.

October 05, 2024
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
Electric innovations past and present: The Hyundai Ioniq 6 that NPR took on a road trip stopped at the Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park in Edison, N.J., on June 11. It’s the site of the world’s second-largest light bulb (that would be the one on top of the tower, at left) in honor of Thomas Edison.

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  • Business

A road trip in an electric vehicle doesn't have to be nerve-wracking anymore

Many people get range anxiety thinking about taking a long car trip in an EV. But a lot of money has gone into improving roadside chargers. We tried them out for ourselves during a 1,000-mile drive.

August 01, 2024
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is taking place in Davos from Jan. 15 until Jan. 19, 2024.

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  • News

Georgia's governor says more clean energy will be needed to fuel electric vehicle manufacturing

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is telling world business leaders that the state must increase its supply of electricity produced without burning fossil fuels to meet industries' demand for clean energy. The Republican spoke Thursday on a panel focused on electric vehicles at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

January 18, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Georgia Power's Plant Scherer in 2020. A new study of deaths related to coal plant emissions ranks Scherer among the most dangerous in the nation.

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  • Environment

STUDY: Georgia's coal-fired power plants among the most deadly in the nation

A new study of smokestack emissions from coal fired power plants nationwide ranks two Georgia facilities among the most deadly in the nation.

December 06, 2023
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Tesla's Cybertruck, pictured here during its design reveal in Hawthorne, Calif., in 2019, is finally rolling out of factories a full two years after the initial delivery target.

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  • Business

After a 2-year delay, deliveries of Tesla's Cybertruck began Thursday

Between its polarizing polygonal design and plenty of production hiccups, the Cybertruck has had a long and rocky road to release. Its fate on the electric pickup market remains unclear.

December 01, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson
Electric vehicle owners visited the EV roadshow when it stopped in Fayetteville, Georgia August 18, 2022.

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  • News

Federal funding looks to promote equity in Georgia’s growing electric transit industry

Funding from the Department of Energy will be used to ensure Black Georgians have equal access to the state's growing electric transportation networks and industry.

November 01, 2023
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  • Amanda Andrews
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