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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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Volvo Cars inaugurates new battery assembly line at Ghent manufacturing plant

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Earlier this year the company announced the planned construction of a battery assembly line at its US plant outside Charleston, South Carolina. Volvo Cars’ aims to reduce its lifecycle carbon footprint per car by 40% between 2018 and 2025, as a first step towards its goal of becoming a climate-neutral company by 2040.

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Next generation eSprinter electric van to be built at three plants

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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.

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Volvo Cars trucks-to-trains swap significantly cuts emissions in logistics network

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Under the plan, the company aims to reduce its lifecycle carbon footprint per car by 40% between 2018 and 2025, which will require a 25% reduction in operational emissions, including logistics. Both initiatives form part of the climate action plan that Volvo Cars revealed this year.

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BMW Spartanburg plant now largest manufacturing facility in the BMW Group production network

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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. The new BMW X3 will be launched in fall 2017. billion annually.

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Lucid Motors selects AZ for EV factory

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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. Lucid plans to break ground and begin hiring in the first half of 2017.

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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. Between 2015 and 2018, BMW Group Plant Spartanburg built the first series produced plug-in hybrid vehicle, the BMW X5 xDrive40e, for the core BMW brand.

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