McAuliffe firm never applied for Va. incentives

Published December 15, 2012 7:49pm ET



RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An electric car firm headed by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe never provided Virginia officials enough details to obtain economic development incentives, according to an Associated Press review of state records.

McAuliffe claimed in a Dec. 5 news conference that the Virginia Economic Development Partnership didn’t want to bid on GreenTech Automotive’s proposed plant to manufacture tiny, low-speed, all-electric two-seaters, so the project went to Mississippi.

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