CHARLOTTE — Scout Motors is planting roots across the Carolinas after building a new production facility in South Carolina and launching their headquarters in Charlotte’s Plaza Midwood neighborhood.
Between the Blythewood facility and the Charlotte headquarters, Scout Motors plans to hire more than 5,000 workers in the Carolinas. As this factory gets up and running, hundreds are already getting to work.
Nearly the entire process happens in a 3-million-square-foot production center just north of Columbia.
Scout Motors CEO Scott Keogh says that’s what makes the EV and hybrid brand a true American manufacturer.
“Very few are doing all of it at once,” Keogh said.
Now the first Scout prototypes are coming off the floor.
“The critical thing is migrating from building a factory to building a car,” Keogh said.
That starts in the body shop where the frame comes together. Then the paint shop adds style.
“The capacity of the paint shop is 45 jobs an hour,” said Ronald Biagini, Senior Manager of Production.
Most of the production team will work here in assembly.
The director on site says hundreds are already working here and the building will staff 2,000 at full operations.
“We’ll have the most employees running around physically getting things out,” said Charles Jeffrey, Director of Production, Assembly Shop.
Scout Motors plans to get production up and running in the next year and they hope to get cars out to customers by 2028.
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