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Roy Cooper

Roy Cooper

Governor of North Carolina (2017-2025)

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VinFast's $4 billion bet on American EV manufacturing

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Left office January 2025; attended groundbreaking ceremony

Vietnam has never had its own automaker until VinFast. In July 2023, the six-year-old company broke ground on a 1,800-acre EV factory in rural North Carolina, pledging $4 billion and 7,500 jobsβ€”the largest economic development in state history and the state's first automotive facility.

Updated May 27