By David Wren drwent@postandcourier.com The company that makes the sport-utility vehicle under the Polestar badge has set a fall date to start production at the Volvo Cars plant. October is the target. Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath confirmed the debut timeline…
By David Wren dwren@postandcourier.com SC automaker Volvo hopes to make in-car sneezing a thing of the past In areas like the Southeast region of the United States, where pollen season covers vehicles with a thick yellow dust each spring, Volvo…
A committee of Santee Cooper board members this week approved the $18.3 million sale of seven undeveloped lots the utility owns in a pair of industrial parks in Berkeley and Horry counties and gave the go-ahead to the first commercial…
A third vehicle might join the Volvo Cars production line in South Carolina in a few years, according to a report by a website that says the new crossover will sit between the automaker’s mid-sized and biggest sport-utility offerings. Automotive…
The final delivery of bigger ship-to-shore cranes made its way to Wando Welch Terminal on Monday. The two cranes from Shanghai manufacturer ZPMC will give the Port of Charleston’s busiest container-handling site a total of 15 structures with 155 feet…
There are currently about 1,500 employees working at the Volvo manufacturing plant in Ridgeville. If they want to step away for a quick lunch or run errands after work, most have to travel at least 20 minutes out for basic conveniences. Especially…
A deal could value the car maker at as much as $25 billion Volvo Cars, the Swedish auto maker owned by Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. of China, is completing plans for an initial public offering and is set to…
Polestar, the high-performance electric carmaker that’s building its next vehicle at the Volvo Cars manufacturing campus in Ridgeville, is going public in a deal that values the company at about $20 billion. The Volvo spinoff, founded in 2017 by China’s…
Palmetto Railways and state-owned electric utility Santee Cooper have finalized an agreement that will allow construction of a 22.7-mile rail line connecting the Volvo Cars campus in Ridgeville with a private carrier’s transfer station in Cross. Santee Cooper will give…