The building in Illinois is already there. The one in Georgia hasn’t been built yet.
I know all that, but that does not address the big picture. I’ve spent the last 50+ years living in the Detroit area and grew up in an auto family...you know how many millions of sq/ft of empty auto production facilities there are around here? For free? Ford ‘Blue Oval’ just cancelled it’s new battery factory here too a couple months ago.
When one looks behind the scenes it’s obvious, the Chicoms have pulled out of many of these ‘joint projects’ lately combined with falling sales and it’s only to get worse. And unions and the coming fights. And taxes upon taxes, the inability for a steady supply of rare earths that the Chicoms own, the list is endless.
Plus bankruptcy isn’t far away either if the past is any indication (that could be the real reason) and Rivian will get a better price whether liquid or not so there’s that.
And that doesn’t include subsidies from the local county, city, state, or feds so behind the scenes the corruption is not going as planned. Maybe Biden’s cronies decided not to hand over millions they extorted from the falsely named ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ and the list goes on and on.