Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is not giving up his goal of making his state a major player in the electric vehicle space, even as it pivots to grow its electric grid by 50 percent to power a wave of AI data centers.
In a conversation with POLITICO’s Energy Podcast, Kemp, a Republican who is approaching the end of his second term, said his calls to attract EV manufacturing plants were never about leveraging the tax credits that were included in former President Joe Biden’s climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act.
In fact, Kemp opposed the passage of that 2022 law that set off a mad dash to build clean energy projects — and the tax credits’ unraveling last year under President Donald Trump hasn’t changed how he sees clean vehicles.
“I still feel very strongly that EVs are going to have a place in the country along with a lot of the other great vehicles that we have, and you know, it really just needs to be customer choice,” he said.
