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DECEMBER 2024 - Blythewood, South Carolina
Welcome to our monthly progress updates on the construction of our new Scout Motors Production Center. In March 2023, we unveiled our plan for Scout Motors to build our new Scout® vehicles at a state-of-the-art factory to be built in Blythewood, South Carolina. The site, which spans a vast 1,100 acres, is strategically located about 20 minutes north and east of Columbia, South Carolina. This substantial $2–billion investment is set to revolutionize the region, creating over 4,000 permanent jobs. At peak capacity, we plan to produce 200,000 vehicles a year at the Production Center – that’s 40 per hour. We are thrilled to share our progress with you as construction continues.

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The new Scout vehicles will be built on a newly designed body-on-frame electric vehicle platform. As you can see the photos, our Production Center’s main structures include a body shop, a paint shop, and final assembly buildings. The site also features a state-of-the-art training center for our employees and a technology center to support our future vehicles.



December 2024 Update

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Another month and significant progress continues at the site. Crews have now moved more than 16 million cubic yards of dirt and continue grading and infrastructure additions and improvements. Floors are going in to the Paint Shop and the final main steel beams have gone into the Assembly Building. Progress has started on railroad connections as well.

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This close-up of the main assembly building (above) shows continued progress made in erecting steel and additional roof decking. Approximately 96% of the steel has been installed so far. Assembly building foundations are 88% complete.

When completed, the assembly building will span nearly 1.3 million square feet.

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The paint shop (above) exterior walls continue to go up as the paint shop gets closer to full enclosure. The first floors have also started to go into the Paint Shop as well (below).

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The body shop (above) work continues at a brisk pace. 81% of the total steel has been erected, and 91% of the foundations have been installed.

The body shop will have more than 600 total foundations that will support 1.3 million square feet of space.

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A new addition this month is the Utility Building which made siginificant progress this past month.

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https://blog.scoutmotors.com/december-2024-scout-motors-production-center-update/
 

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Great progress being made! At this rate, any chance we see the Traveler or Terra launch moved up earlier... perhaps late 2026??
I doubt it, the tooling, setup, and training will take some time.
 

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Scout has a schedule of values and timeframe of milestones showing that from developer / Builder once structure is 90% completed Electrical rough in work which will be substantial will take place along with HVAC massive mechanicals along with manufacturing equipment being set up and software lots of equipment be amazing once operational
 

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Great progress being made! At this rate, any chance we see the Traveler or Terra launch moved up earlier... perhaps late 2026??
I’m planning on 2028 for delivery. I’m good with that personally but that’s pure speculation on my part.
 

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The body-on-frame concept is so smart. I’ll bet it reduces collision damage repair costs and thus insurance premiums which are killing EV’s.
 

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Crazy how Scout can get so much done, good job!

Canoo has had millions of investors money go through their hands and they don’t even have a pot to pi$$ in?!
 

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Innovative people with proper funding it's nice to see their dreams come to life and isn't great sharing a dream ???
 

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The body-on-frame concept is so smart. I’ll bet it reduces collision damage repair costs and thus insurance premiums which are killing EV’s.
Really? I just leased a top trim Ioniq 5 and my insurance costs are the same as my 11 year old car. This is in Canada though and I’m sure costs vary between provinces not to mention countries. My wife’s Tesla insurance isn’t expensive either.
 
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USA car payment and Insurance cost are insane i really hope they go down in the years coming up to the public release and deliveries for Scout.
 

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USA car payment and Insurance cost are insane i really hope they go down in the years coming up to the public release and deliveries for Scout.
This is true, I have USAA (one of the best) for a RV, Prius, and Ranger truck, and it is pretty expensive, not having an EV yet I can't speak to that but because of the weight, cost, and repair expense I am not holding my breath for lower premiums. I am just glad I don't have any payments on top of the insurance costs, we hate paying interest, and are lucky enough to be able to buy our vehicles outright.
 

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It won't be more expensive than your children's wedding or years of cell phone and college tuition. Time to be the one enjoying the check being written. They get the assets we spend the cash.
 

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It won't be more expensive than your children's wedding or years of cell phone and college tuition. Time to be the one enjoying the check being written. They get the assets we spend the cash.
My kids are all married and out of college, now I get to spoil Grand Kids, I don't plan on leaving them much more than the house as we are spending it :)
 

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We need to influence the grandkids and what better reward is when they prefer pop pops car cause it's cool can we take it on the beach you bet we can this is a Scout
 

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This is true, I have USAA (one of the best) for a RV, Prius, and Ranger truck, and it is pretty expensive, not having an EV yet I can't speak to that but because of the weight, cost, and repair expense I am not holding my breath for lower premiums. I am just glad I don't have any payments on top of the insurance costs, we hate paying interest, and are lucky enough to be able to buy our vehicles outright.
What do you consider expensive? The Ioniq 5 is about $650.00 US a year for full coverage.
 
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