Green Car Congress
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.
Green Car Congress
MAY 11, 2015
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.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 26, 2017
On 23 June 1992, the BMW Group announced its decision to build its US plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina. From 2018 to 2021 we will invest further 600 million US dollars in manufacturing infrastructure for future generations of the BMW X models. million vehicles since going online on 8 September 1994.
Green Car Congress
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. —Javier Varela, Senior Vice President of Manufacturing and Logistics at Volvo Cars.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 31, 2021
Mercedes-Benz will build the next generation eSprinter electric van, which is based on the newly developed Electric Versatility Platform ( earlier post ), at three locations: North Charleston, South Carolina; and Düsseldorf and Ludwigsfelde in Germany. By the end of 2020, the Plant in Charleston had about 1,600 employees.
Green Car Congress
JULY 24, 2019
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., The plant’s own battery facility now produces the new fourth-generation batteries.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
The Lucid factory program will be overseen by Brian Barron, Lucid’s Director of Manufacturing. Barron is an 18-year veteran of BMW, where he ensured the timely launches of various BMW model lines and managed functional areas in both South Carolina and Germany. It plans to begin production of the first model in 2018.
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