Hyundai is aiming to broaden the appeal of its Ioniq 5 electric SUVs with 2025 models boasting improved battery range and additional charging options. The South Korean automaker unveiled the new EVs on Tuesday in Savannah, Georgia, a few miles from Hyundai's huge new factory that will begin producing the vehicles before the year's end.
A federal agency has agreed to reexamine an environmental permit for Hyundai's $7.6 billion electric vehicle plant in Georgia after conservationists complained that regulators failed to properly assess the factory's impacts on the local water supply.
Early in the morning a lifelong Savannahnian and a military veteran commute 50 minutes in a 15-year-old SUV from Savannah to the Hyundai Metaplant, the $7.56 billion electric vehicle factory rising from amid the pine forests of rural Bryan County.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has met with South Korea's president during his trip to the Asian nation. The Republican Kemp says he met Tuesday with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp left Monday on a trip to Asia — his sixth overseas since taking office in 2019 — to focus on economic partnerships for Georgia. The Kemps' trip also included a visit to the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which runs across the Korean Peninsula and was established in 1953 under the provisions of the Korean Armistice Agreement.
A conservation group says it intends to sue two U.S. agencies, saying they failed to properly assess the environmental impacts of the sprawling electric vehicle plant Hyundai is building in Georgia.
A private utility is asking Georgia lawmakers to change a state law so it can provide water service to new homes near Hyundai's upcoming electric vehicle plant without getting permission from local governments.
The Georgia Ports Authority says it handled a record number of automobiles on its docks last year. The state agency reported Tuesday that more than 775,000 autos and heavy machinery units moved through the Port of Brunswick in the 2023 calendar year.
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.
Kemp is spending the week in Switzerland attending the World Economic Forum, meeting business executives and political leaders and taking part in discussion panels.
