VinFast Delays US Electric Vehicle Plant Operation To 2025

Vietnam’s automaker VinFast on said it will push back its plan to start operations of its electric vehicles factory in the United States until 2025, citing a procedural delay.
Source: REUTERS

VinFast, the unit of conglomerate Vingroup JSC flagged the plan to build a $4 billion EV factory in North Carolina’s Chatham County on 712 hectares (1759 acres) of land in March last year, with commissioning targeted for July 2024.

“We need more time to complete administrative procedures,” VinFast said in a statement on the delay, which did not specify when in 2025 the plant was expected to start operations.

Once the facility assembles VinFast EVs, customers may be entitled to incentives under terms of the Inflation Reduction Act signed by U.S. President Joe Biden. VinFast last month was awarded an Air Permit from local authorities to start construction.

It still needs a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers designed to minimise damage to water quality and wetlands. The plant, with phase one including capital expenditures for the construction of US$1.4 billion, is expected to create more than 7,000 jobs and churn out 150,000 vehicles a year, according to the company’s latest prospectus released on Thursday.

Last year VinFast filed for an initial public offering in the United States to list on the Nasdaq to fund its the plant construction. VinFast started its first sales outside Vietnam last week, delivering its first 45 cars in California on the first day.

Its revenue in 2022 was VND 14.9 trillion (US$631 million), down about 6.9 percent against 2021. Net losses rose 55 percent to VND 49.8 trillion from VND 32.2 trillion dong, its latest prospectus showed.

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