BLYTHEWOOD, S.C. (AP) — Scout Motors celebrated the start of construction on its $2 billion electric SUV plant in South Carolina on Thursday not with a line of people in suits with shovels but with a nod to the company's gasoline-powered past.
People are leaving the Rust Belt and the snow and want to come here where there's economic freedom,” Republican South Carolina Gov.
Scout Motors made gasoline-powered vehicles for about 20 years when it was owned by International Harvester.
The Volkswagen-owned Scout Motors enters a growing, but uncertain U.S. market.
But you have to plan without those things,” Scout Motors CEO Scott Keogh said.
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