Published by The Wall Street Journal
Forget BYD: Geely is the Chinese car company Americans will see most of in the coming years, through brands such as Volvo, Polestar, Lotus and Zeekr Chinese automotive tycoon Eric Li is letting more people into his $30 billion-plus private garage. It is full of old brands, new tech and potential ... Read More - The Chinese Auto Empire Coming to the U.S.
Published by Live 5
Palmetto Railways has started construction on a rail line that will service the Camp Hall Commerce Park and Volvo’s plant in Berkeley County. Palmetto Railways President and CEO Patrick McCrory said the 25-mile rail line will connect to an existing CSX rail line near the Santee Cooper Cross ... Read More - Palmetto Railways begins construction on $185M rail line servicing Camp Hall
Published by Post and Courier
Lawmakers have approved the last major piece of public financing for a rail line the state promised about eight years ago to bring the Volvo Cars plant to South Carolina. A legislative panel on May 16 authorized the S.C. Commerce Department to draw $48.5 million from a special economic ... Read More - SC Commerce’s long-delayed Volvo rail line gets final funding
Published by The Post and Courier
North Charleston is the best place in the eastern U.S. to build a factory focused on the electric vehicle industry based on the bottom-line costs of doing business, a new report shows, but operating margins aren’t the only advantage the area offers. John Boyd, whose New Jersey-based The Boyd Co. ... Read More - North Charleston is the place to be for EV-related manufacturers, report says
Published by Charleston Business Journal
More details were revealed Wednesday about Volvo’s fully electric SUV that will be built in Ridgeville – and the massive effort it will take to roll them off the assembly line. The Volvo EX90 made its debut in November as the Swedish car company’s new fully electric ... Read More - Volvo looks to add 1,300 jobs for fully electric SUV to be built in Ridgeville
Published by Charleston Business Journal
By Christmas, Redwood Materials, a producer and recycler of anode and cathode battery components for electric vehicles, expects to be operating out of its 600-acre site at Camp Hall Commerce Park in Ridgeville. “We are very much ‘building the plane as we fly it,’ which means building smaller ... Read More - Redwood Materials visits SC — the latest on its $3.5B Berkeley County project
Published by Charleston Business Journal
A Charlotte-based real estate developer has revealed the next phase of a large mixed-use park in Ridgeville. Childress Klein, the project’s developer, and Altus Equity Group Inc., a real estate sponsor, operator and investment company, said the finalization of securing an $86.5 million ... Read More - Next phase revealed for 1.4M-square-foot Ridgeville industrial center
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It could be an early arrival for the all-electric Volvo EX90 sport-utility vehicle to be built at the automaker’s Lowcountry plant. Production is now expected to begin slightly sooner than previously announced, according to a report by Inside EVs. The battery powered EX90 is the ... Read More - Report: Volvo’s SC plant may accelerate EV production launch
Published by Reuters
Feb 2 (Reuters) - Volvo Cars is gearing up for an electric blitz to convert all its mainstay models - three SUVs and two sedans - into electric vehicles and to introduce a luxury electric van aimed at boosting sales in Asia, two people with knowledge of the plans said. The Swedish carmaker, ... Read More - Exclusive: Volvo readies EV blitz in biggest product revamp under Geely
