The Jacksonville City Council agreed Tuesday to offer $7.7 million in incentives to an autonomous vehicle company to build a manufacturing and assembly plant in the city.
The 18-1 vote approved incentives for Project Link, the company’s code name in city documents, to construct a $100 million, 450,000-square-foot plant on about 40 acres in Northwest Jacksonville. The sole no vote came from council member Rory Diamond. The vote constituted final approval of the package.
The Jacksonville Daily Record reported April 10 that Project Link appears to be Holon, an automotive brand spun off from Germany-based Benteler Automotive Group. The company’s Holon Mover is an autonomous, fully electric vehicle that was presented in early 2023 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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