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Volvo Cars selects South Carolina for its first US plant

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Volvo Cars has selected South Carolina as the location of its new $500-million factory in the US. Construction will begin in early autumn 2015, with the first vehicles expected to roll off the assembly line in 2018. The new plant will make latest generation Volvo models for sale in the United States and for export.

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Bosch begins electric motor production in Charleston; more than $260M in new investment

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manufacturing facility. The total investment for the expansion will be more than $260 million for the expansion and new high-tech manufacturing equipment. Bosch has continued to invest in its presence in South Carolina. Bosch has begun production of electric motors at its Charleston, S.C. methods to gain more efficiency.

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Oshkosh selects Spartanburg, S.C. to build next-generation USPS delivery fleet

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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. The USPS selected Oshkosh Defense for the multi-billion-dollar NGDV contract in February 2021 at the end of a competitive process that began in 2015. Earlier post.)

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Safety Institute: auto manufacturers fail to meet NHTSA deadline for replacement airbags

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Many manufacturers have failed to deliver sufficient replacement airbags to vehicles that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) deemed at the highest risk of a rupture, despite a 31 March agency deadline to do so. The analysis, conducted by Quality Control Systems Corp.

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BMW Group Plant Spartanburg doubles battery production capacity

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BMW Group Plant Spartanburg in South Carolina has doubled its capacity for production of high-voltage batteries. BMW Group has produced batteries on site at Plant Spartanburg since 2015, said Knudt Flor, President and CEO, BMW Manufacturing, Co.,

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Clemson, SC purchases 10 Proterra electric buses

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The CATbus transit vehicles will be manufactured in Proterra’s East Coast Manufacturing Facility, located in nearby Greenville, S.C. . In 2015, Seneca became the first city in the US to operate an all-electric bus fleet. The ten-bus purchase complements the six Proterra buses already servicing the City of Seneca, S.C.

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Benchmark: global battery industry needs to invest $514B to meet demand in 2030; $920B by 2035

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Manufacturing the additional 2.7 To put the scale of the lithium challenge into context, more lithium will be needed in 2030 than was mined between 2015 and 2022, according to Benchmark’s Lithium Forecast. Its equivalently sized facility in South Carolina is projected to cost $1.3