COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A Volkswagen Group-backed automotive firm introduced plans this week to open a $2 billion electrical truck and SUV manufacturing plant simply outdoors of Columbia, South Carolina.
Scout Motors Inc. and South Carolina officers mentioned Friday that the corporate could be establishing its first manufacturing plant in Blythewood at an industrial website. At full capability, greater than 200,000 autos could also be produced yearly on the facility, which is anticipated to create 4,000 or extra everlasting jobs, Gov. Henry McMaster’s workplace mentioned in a news release.
Scout Motors, an impartial firm headquartered in Virginia and backed by Volkswagen, plans to supply all-electric vans and SUVs within the model of the Scout autos produced by Worldwide Harvester between 1960 and 1980.
“Scout Motors will present 1000’s of South Carolinians with beforehand unimagined alternatives and prosperity for generations to come back,” McMaster mentioned in a press release. “The Palmetto State, with its wealthy historical past, superior folks, and sterling automotive manufacturing fame, is the right place to re-start this iconic American model.”
Automobile manufacturing is focused to start by the tip of 2026, based on the information launch.
The Scout deal is anticipated to obtain county-level tax incentives which have already acquired preliminary approval, The State reported. It wasn’t instantly clear what state-level incentives the challenge might have been supplied, based on the newspaper.
