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The plant, about 20 miles north of Columbia is expected to open in 2027 and employ up to 4,000 people if Scout Motors can hit its goal of making and selling 200,000 vehicles per year.

Volkswagen's PowerCo battery subsidiary will build just one of two planned production lines at its Salzgitter plant in Germany for now, its works council said, as the sector adjusts to slowing ...

A Japanese company has halted construction on a $1.6 billion factory in South Carolina to help make batteries for electric ...

The automaker is weighing whether to build a plant in the southern US, a German news magazine reported on Friday.

Audi is evaluating the establishment of a manufacturing plant in the southern United States to mitigate tensions with ...

More and more automakers — including Bentley, Ferrari, Ford and Tesla, to name a few — have been developing circular, plant-based material innovations for use in their vehicles; and BMW and Volkswagen ...

Volkswagen's German Battery Plant to Stay at Half Capacity Amid Cost Pressures. By Reuters | Sept. 6, 2024. ... The factory has space for two lines but just one is under construction, ...

Billion-dollar battery plant pauses construction amid electric vehicle and tariff uncertainty A Japanese company has halted construction on a $1.6 billion factory in South Carolina to help make ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A Japanese company has halted construction on a $1.6 billion factory in South Carolina to help make batteries for electric BMWs, citing “policy and market uncertainty ...

South Carolina is investing heavily in electric vehicles. Volkswagen-owned Scout Motors plans to invest $2 billion and hire 4,000 people for a plant to build its new electric SUVs scheduled to ...