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Scout Motors wants to put the ‘mechanical’ back into electric trucks
Production will start at the end of 2026.
But Scout Motors CEO Scott Keogh didn’t want to play any “fake shovel games” for the groundbreaking of his company’s new factory outside Columbia, South Carolina. Instead, the team found a brick from the old International Harvester factory in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where the original Scout SUVs were manufactured from 1961 until the brand was discontinued in 1980. The South Carolina Legislature approved a $1.3 billion tax incentive package for Scout last spring, under the assurance that the company would create thousands of jobs.
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