Green Car Reports

MARCH 5, 2023

Volkswagen's new Scout Motors EV division on Friday confirmed that its first model will be a $40,000 electric SUV to be built at a new $2 billion factory near Columbia, South Carolina.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 20, 2024

Tesla is set to open a new distribution center in a 251-thousand-square-foot warehouse in Greenville County, South Carolina, as announced by the automaker this week. The firm also adds that Tesla plans to open the facility in Fox Hill Business Park Building 3, a warehouse with a total of 251,100 square feet.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 28, 2024

billion battery plant in South Carolina, set to be the JB Straubel-led company’s second. Redwood Materials broke ground on the South Carolina battery materials facility last week, as announced by Director of Public Affairs and Government Relations Morgan Crapps in a LinkedIn post. “And we’re off!

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Bosch on Wednesday announced a $200 million investment to build hydrogen fuel-cell stacks for Class 8 semi trucks at its Anderson, South Carolina, facility.

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InsideEVs

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Contracted manufacturing could be in the books for Scout's $2 billion facility in South Carolina.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 15, 2020

UK-based startup Arrival announced Tuesday that it had selected a site in South Carolina for a "microfactory" to build electric buses. The $46 million factory will be located in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and will create 240 jobs in the area, an Arrival press release said.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 20, 2020

Volvo revealed in October, amid the preview of the upcoming XC40 Recharge electric crossover, that an electric version of its next-generation XC90 SUV will be built at Volvo’s plant in Ridgeville, South Carolina, near Charleston.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Volvo Cars announced that the next generation of the XC90 large premium SUV will be built in its new manufacturing plant in Charleston, South Carolina from 2021. The South Carolina plant will start production of the next-generation S60 in the fall of 2018.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 5, 2024

We are in a celebratory mood this week, as our factory outside Charleston, South Carolina has now started building our new electric flagship SUV — and the first customer deliveries are scheduled for the second half of this year.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2023

AESC held a groundbreaking ceremony on its new battery plant in Florence County, South Carolina. The new 30 GWh battery plant builds on AESC’s existing battery manufacturing network that includes a plant in operation in Tennessee and another plant under construction in Kentucky. Earlier post.) With construction of the 1.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

Volvo Cars formally inaugurated a new battery assembly line at its Belgian manufacturing plant in Ghent, where it will start building its first fully electric car, the XC40 Recharge P8, later this year. Volvo XC40 Recharge powertrain. The XC40 Recharge P8 is the first of a family of fully electric Volvos.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In 2023, production will start in Gray Court, South Carolina. Thanks to PowerLine’s versatile technology, we can now build on its success also in the commercial vehicle segment. ZF consequently is expanding its transmission plant, investing more than €150 million and creating 500 new jobs.

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Electric Cars Report

JUNE 28, 2023

The BMW Group took a major step on Tuesday towards building electric vehicles in the United States as it broke ground for a new high-voltage battery assembly plant in Woodruff, South Carolina.

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Electrek

MARCH 3, 2023

In a Tweet earlier this morning, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has confirmed that Volkswagen Group has chosen the Eastern state as home to its new production facility to build Scout brand EVs.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Redwood Materials has selected South Carolina as the site of its next battery recycling facility as it scales up production in the US.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2021

Oshkosh Defense has selected Spartanburg, South Carolina to be the home of its efforts to build the Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) for the US Postal Service. Earlier post.) The NGDV is the USPS’ first large-scale fleet procurement in three decades.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

billion in its US operations, including $1 billion to prepare for the production of electric vehicles at the company’s Plant Spartanburg in South Carolina, and $700 million to build a new high-voltage battery assembly facility in nearby Woodruff, SC. By 2030 BMW Group will build at least six fully electric models in the US.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2014

One of the major contributors to this milestone is BMW Manufacturing at its plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where the company powers its entire hydrogen fuel cell fleet of more than 280 forklift trucks to service the plant’s production and logistics functions, making it one of the largest fuel cell forklift sites in the world.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 28, 2024

Volkswagen will roll out new Scout-branded EVs in the coming years, and its South Carolina factory is well underway. In addition to the hardware it takes to build thousands of new electric vehicles, the automaker is focused on making the site as sustainable and environmentally friendly as possible.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It covers approximately 200,000 square feet in an existing building on the Bosch Charleston campus. An additional approximately 75,000 square feet will be added onto the existing building to make room for future production. Bosch has continued to invest in its presence in South Carolina. methods to gain more efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2021

The forthcoming Polestar 3 will be manufactured alongside new Volvo vehicles at the Volvo Cars production center in Ridgeville, South Carolina. Polestar vehicles built in South Carolina will be for sale in the United States. Polestar 3 will be built in America, for our American customers.

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Teslarati

MARCH 5, 2023

The all-electric Scout SUV will be built in a new $2 billion factory in South Carolina. However, in a recent press release about its new factory in South Carolina, VW noted that all Scout trucks and SUVs would be built with “a newly designed all-electric platform.” The Teslarati team would appreciate hearing from you.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 16, 2021

The company won’t be building a new factory, however; it plans to build the Polestar 3 for U.S. customers alongside Volvo Cars vehicles at Ridgeville, South Carolina. Polestar has announced that its first all-electric SUV, called Polestar 3, is due in 2022 and will be built in the U.S.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 23, 2021

Oshkosh Defense on Tuesday announced that it plans to build its next-generation postal vehicles—some of which will be battery-electric—for the U.S. government in Spartanburg, South Carolina starting in summer 2023.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Bosch on Tuesday announced the start of EV motor production at its Charleston, South Carolina, facility, with expansion plans already on deck for 2023. Production began earlier this month in a 200,000-square-foot section of an existing building at the Charleston site, Bosch said in a press release.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2021

The Wendell location also works with local educational institutions including North Carolina State University and Wake Tech Community College for training and workforce development.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 29, 2021

Volvo plans to produce only electric cars at its South Carolina, factory ahead of factories in other markets. In an interview with Automotive News Monday, CEO Hakan Samuelsson said the factory will be the first one building all-electric cars, implying it will reach that milestone before factories in Europe and China.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2013

Located in South Carolina, ZF Transmissions Gray Court, LLC will produce about 1.2 So far, ZF has invested around €300 million (US$399 million) in building the new location, which is around 130 kilometers (81 miles) north-west of Columbia. Manufacturing 8-speed automatics at Gray Court. Click to enlarge. A total of approx.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2022

billion to build a battery component plant in Big Rapids, Michigan. Once completed, the facility in Big Rapids is expected to produce 150,000 tons of cathode material per year, covering an area estimated to span 260 acres with plans to build two 550,000 square foot production plants along with other supporting facilities.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 18, 2024

BMW wants humanoid robots to build its cars, evidenced by a partnership with a robotics startup that it signed today. The humanoid robots will initially be launched out of the BMW facility in Spartanburg, South Carolina, which employs 11,000 people. “We have designed the robot to be safe next to humans.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The new VersiCharge XL concept was created to electrify new or existing parking lots and building structures quickly and efficiently by using a modular, scalable design made in partnership with Nexii Building Solutions (Nexii) using their proprietary, sustainable building material with low carbon footprint.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Born again truck brand Scout Motors hit a significant milestone this morning, breaking ground in Blythewood, South Carolina, the site of its future US hub for electric truck production. We’re still a ways away from the public debut of Scout’s flagship model.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2013

NuHub, the State of South Carolina and Holtec International, Inc., NuHub, the State of South Carolina and Holtec International, Inc., Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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InsideEVs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

It will be able to produce up to 10,000 chargers per year.

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InsideEVs

MARCH 3, 2023

Production is expected to begin by the end of 2026 at a new factory that will have a maximum capacity of over 200,000 vehicles a year.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2017

On 23 June 1992, the BMW Group announced its decision to build its US plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina. According to an independent study of University of South Carolina (Moore School of Business), the nationwide economic impact of BMW Group Plant Spartanburg is US$38.5 billion annually.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

States such as Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas, where sugarcane can be grown, are prime locations for building sugarcane ethanol refineries, Clean Energy says. This will provide greater stability in profit margins, according to Clean Energy.

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