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AUGUST 17, 2024

Polestar announced that the production of its luxury SUV, Polestar 3, has started in South Carolina, USA. The factory in South Carolina produces cars for customers in the US and Europe, complementing existing production in Chengdu, China. The company is also taking additional steps to diversify its wider manufacturing.

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JUNE 17, 2021

Polestar, the premium electric car brand from Sweden, announced that its first all-electric SUV will be manufactured in the United States. The forthcoming Polestar 3 will be manufactured alongside new Volvo vehicles at the Volvo Cars production center in Ridgeville, South Carolina. —Thomas Ingenlath, Polestar’s CEO.

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JUNE 5, 2024

Volvo Cars chose June 5 – World Environment Day – to commence production of its new electric flagship SUV, the EX90, at its plant outside Charleston, South Carolina. These updates are delivered by the company’s software engineers, enabled by AI and informed by real-time data collection.

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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. The Ghent plant will provide important learnings to other manufacturing sites in terms of process optimisation and efficiency.

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MAY 23, 2023

Paintings pressure appeal and retention were priorities for BMW for the reason that German luxurious automaker planted roots in South Carolina 3 many years in the past. Terminating yr, the automaker opened a $20 million coaching facility to show staff find out how to manufacture electrical drivetrains and high-voltage battery packs.

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APRIL 10, 2020

In addition, the company has shared its manufacturing plans with GM suppliers along with the Original Equipment Suppliers Association and the Michigan Manufacturers Association ( MMA ) to help other manufacturers ramp up their own production efforts. Fream, OESA president and CEO.

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MARCH 3, 2023

Scout Motors is an independent US company backed by Volkswagen Group whose board of directors includes Dr. Gernot Doellner, the head of group strategy at Volkswagen AG, and Peter Bosch, the member of the Bentley Motors board responsible for manufacturing. Its CEO is Scott Keogh, formerly head of Volkswagen of America.

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MARCH 4, 2024

The company has begun production of its third model, the Polestar 3 SUV, in Chengdu, China. Importantly for US buyers, production is also slated to begin in South Carolina in mid-2024. The company has successfully completed a production test series at its Carolina plant.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

Siemens will invest and expand the company’s US manufacturing operations to support electric vehicle infrastructure in America. The company will bolster its existing manufacturing footprint of EV infrastructure with the VersiCharge Level 2 AC series product line of commercial and residential EV chargers.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

Proterra announced that the company produced the first Proterra Powered EV battery at its new Powered 1 battery manufacturing plant located in Greer, South Carolina. Proterra expects to begin deliveries to customers of Proterra Powered battery systems from the new battery factory in the first quarter of 2023.

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JULY 15, 2023

Manufacturing the Fuel Cell Power Module in the Feuerbach plant. Bosch is the first company to produce these systems in both China and Germany, said Bosch chairman Stefan Hartung. In addition, Bosch is also planning to manufacture stacks for mobile applications in its US plant in Anderson, South Carolina.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

The company plans to invest $260 million more to further expand production of EV components at the site, and expects to create at least 350 high-paying manufacturing jobs in the region by 2025. This week, Bosch announced officially began producing of electric vehicle motors at its Charleston, SC Rexroth facility.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2021

ZF Group has received several large-scale orders worth several billion euros from North American vehicle manufacturers for its automatic 8-speed PowerLine transmission—including the largest individual commercial-vehicle-related order in company history. In 2023, production will start in Gray Court, South Carolina.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

manufacturing facility. Additionally, the company plans to invest more than $260 million to expand further the production of electrification products at the site, which is expected to create at least 350 net new jobs by 2025. The company has secured additional electromobility business that requires further expansion at the plant.

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MARCH 3, 2022

BMW will invest more than $200 million to construct a 219,000-square-foot press shop at its South Carolina plant. The Schuler Group , a globally-recognized company that manufactures automated servo press lines for all BMW Group plants, will also manufacture the automated press line for Plant Spartanburg.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The company estimates that retail prices for the Scout Traveler will start under $60,000. The company plans to design and engineer the Scout Traveler SUV and Scout Terra pickup truck in Michigan. The company plans to manufacture its new vehicles in South Carolina, where it established a $2 billion assembly plant.

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

a manufacturer of environmentally friendly, disposable foodservice products, which recently announced that it had ordered 10 Tesla Semis for its fleet. The Tesla Semi order is part of Karat’s plans to expand its logistic services business in the United States, as per a press release from the company.

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APRIL 8, 2023

The company has completed production of 200 demonstration tires and is pursuing joint evaluation with automakers for use on the next generation of electrified SUVs and crossovers (CUVs). Aiken also operates an on-site, 8-acre solar array that provides renewable energy to aid in powering the plant’s manufacturing operations.

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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. Production of the NGDVs is expected to begin summer 2023.

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APRIL 18, 2023

Polestar has announced the production start date for its new South Carolina production facility, which it will be sharing with Volvo Cars. Now, the Swedish automaker is poised to finally address that issue as it begins production in South Carolina. Polestar will continue producing vehicles at its Chinese facilities.

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AUGUST 22, 2024

The company also offers the Polestar 2 and the Polestar 3 in Europe. The company offers a Long Range Dual Motor variant with a 400 kW/544 hp power powertrain and a Long Range Single Motor Polestar 4 with a 200 kW/272 hp powertrain. Next year, Polestar 4 production is expected to start in South Korea.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

Greenville County, South Carolina and Light’N’Up, deployed 15 propane Autogas vehicles last month as part of a large-scale, Recovery Act-funded alternative fuel vehicle project in the Southeast United States.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Volkswagen has decided to work with another automaker to help develop its revived Scout electric vehicle (EV) brand in Europe, with recent reports saying the company secured an order worth around 450 million euros ($492 million). although Volkswagen now plans to build the vehicle itself at an upcoming South Carolina plant.

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MARCH 18, 2020

Volvo Cars is significantly cutting CO 2 emissions in its logistics operations by switching transports between its manufacturing plants and new car depots from trucks to trains. The 2025 plan is one tangible step towards Volvo Cars’ ambition of becoming a climate-neutral company by 2040.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Global motion technology company Schaeffler plans to expand its US operations with the addition of a new manufacturing facility focused on producing automotive electric mobility solutions. The Dover site is near Schaeffler’s existing transmission manufacturing facility in Wooster.

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JUNE 13, 2017

Electric bus manufacturer Proterra has closed a $55-million Series 6 round, on the heels of an oversubscribed $140-million Series 5 in January. Currently, the company has sold more than 400 vehicles to cities and communities in the US, including Seattle, Dallas, Nashville, San Jose, Philadelphia and Reno.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The busway power distribution equipment is manufactured at Siemens’ 540-person manufacturing hub in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Recently, the company announced it is expanding its US manufacturing operations to support EV infrastructure in America, producing 1 million EV chargers by 2025.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 28, 2024

For production of its sixth-generation high-voltage batteries, BMW is setting up five new assembly sites around the world: in Irlbach-Straßkirchen, Germany; Debrecen, Hungary; Shenyang, China; San Luis Potosí, Mexico; and Spartanburg, South Carolina. Construction of the battery plant at Irlbach-Straßkirchen, Germany, began in June.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Scout Motor’s R&D Center in Detroit and its new factory in South Carolina will open simultaneously in 2026. The automaker’s South Carolina facility will produce Scout’s all-electric SUV and pickup truck. The manufacturing facility received $1.29 billion in state incentives earlier this year.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Solvay announced the installation completion of its new thermoplastic composites (TPC) manufacturing facility at its Greenville, South Carolina site. A key driver for the world-class facility is growing demand from energy companies, supported by increasing aerospace and automotive demand.

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MARCH 14, 2023

The Volkswagen Group and its battery company PowerCo have selected St. Thomas in Ontario, Canada to establish Volkswagen’s first overseas gigafactory for cell manufacturing. With the decisions for cell production in Canada and a Scout site in South Carolina we’re fast-forwarding the execution of our North American strategy.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The first Polestar 3 electric SUVs, built in South Carolina, are now being delivered to customers. The first US-made Polestar 3 has officially been delivered After the first model rolled out of its South Carolina plant in August, US-made Polestar 3 SUVs are now reaching customers.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Now, Bosch is claiming that Rivian refused to pay $204 million in reimbursements for the cancelled plans, leaving the company with significant stranded capital and a hole in revenue (via Automotive News ). The company also built a 30,000-square-foot production line at its plant in South Carolina to help produce the units.

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Teslarati

MAY 6, 2022

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co (CATL) said in March 2021 that it would invest $5 billion into potential electric vehicle battery cell manufacturing sites in North America. CATL is now in talks to serve BMW AG and Ford Motor Company. The plant is expected to have an initial capacity of 8 gigawatt-hours and cost $1.89 billion.

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JULY 25, 2011

BMW Manufacturing has launched the first phase of an integrated program of work with the intent to validate the economic and technical feasibility of converting landfill gas (LFG) into hydrogen. The first phase of this multi-phase project will be funded by SCRA (South Carolina Research Authority). methane, CO 2.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Redwood has two US campuses to recycle, refine and manufacture battery components—one outside Reno, Nevada and the other under construction in Charleston, South Carolina. Redwood will work directly with BMW Group’s network of over 700 locations, including dealerships, distribution centers and internal facilities.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Every Polestar model to date has been manufactured in China , but the 2025 Polestar 3 is assembled at a South Carolina plant shared with Volvo. Polestar 3 deliveries The Polestar 3 is a platform-mate of the Volvo EX90, which is built at the same South Carolina plant.

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