JACKSON, Miss. — The future of an electric car maker that once had grand promises for a corner of the Mississippi Delta is growing even murkier.
GreenTech Automotive, a company co-founded by Terry McAuliffe before he became Virginia’s governor, laid off at least some of its 75 employees at its Tunica County plant this week.
Mississippi’s state employment service said it had been told the company is “shutting down,” but agency spokeswoman Dianne Bell said Thursday that the agency hasn’t been able to reach the company to provide layoff assistance.
The company — which has faced a federal securities investigation — did not respond to The Associated Press on Friday.
The company once planned to build 250,000 cars a year and invest $2 billion, but long ago downsized those plans, promising the state it would invest $60 million and hire 350 workers.
GreenTech never met those thresholds, telling the federal government in 2015 that it had 75 workers.
