The Volkswagen Group’s all-electric Scout Motors is making strides, breaking floor Thursday on its new meeting plant in Blythewood, S.C.
The corporate plans to construct off-road succesful pickup vehicles and SUVs impressed by the Worldwide Harvester Scout produced from 1960 to 1980. This $2 billion electrical automobile plant will span 1,600 acres and produce 4,000 jobs to the realm. It will likely be the house for Scout’s next-generation vehicles and rugged SUVs.
Scout President and CEO Scott Keogh informed WLTX in South Carolina, “What we’re doing right here is relaunching an American icon and we’re doing it right here in South Carolina, and we could not be prouder of doing it right here on this beloved place.”
This new manufacturing facility – which could have three key parts: an meeting line, paint store and physique store – will be capable of produce greater than 200,000 Scout automobiles a 12 months.
In line with WLTX, Scout’s chief manufacturing officer, Dr. Jan Spies, talked about how the corporate may also be working towards sustainability and carbon neutrality by decreasing emissions by fuel exhaust and noise, decreasing water consumption, and utilizing warmth pumps and LED lighting.
Manufacturing on the plant is slated to start by the top of 2026.
Scout Motors relies in Tysons, Virginia, and was based in 2022. Competing in a section dominated by Jeep and the Ford Bronco, it is aiming for a automobile worth of $50,000.