Scout Motors Begins Validation Builds at South Carolina Plant
Scout Motors has started building its first validation vehicles at its Blythewood, South Carolina plant, moving the revived brand's Traveler SUV and Terra pickup from concept stage toward production. The 1,600 acre facility, a more than $2 billion investment just north of Columbia, is in its final construction phase, with the body shop, paint shop and validation equipment in place. The body shop alone runs more than 750 robots, joining 160 components with 5,000 weld points per body at a rate of up to 40 vehicles an hour. Scout plans to mature the builds through 2027 into pre production and then customer vehicles, targeting as many as 200,000 vehicles a year with 4,000 employees, plus about 1,000 supplier park jobs. Customer deliveries remain slated for early 2028.
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