Scout Motors CEO gives sneak peak of South Carolina car plant, reacts to tariffs

Описание: (10 Apr 2025)
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Blythewood, South Carolina - 10 April 2025
1. Wide of Scout Motors car plant
2. Wide of tour of paint shop UPSOUND (English) Peter Strom, Scout Motors manufacturing engineering specialist: “Straight ahead of us here is our switch gear. It's a main power coming in. It is an all-electric paint shop So it's much larger than what you might see in other paint shops.”
3. Wide of paint shop
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Keogh, Scout Motors CEO:
“Fundamentally, what you see here is exactly what we've intended years ago. It's to meet this American moment. We're restoring an American icon called Scout. We're building a factory right here in the heart of America. And of course, we're bringing fantastic jobs to America. So this is what all the headlines are all about, and it's exactly what Scout's been about since its inception. And I think you can see exactly what it takes. to manufacture, build, dream, and do things again in America.”
5. Wide of Scout Motors car plant
6. Wide of Scout Motors car plant employee
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Keogh, Scout Motors CEO:
“Yeah, look, I'm not going to speak overall on tariffs. I think you can all read tons of headlines and navigate your own thoughts. I think specifically for Scout, it's quite clear. I think if you look at why we did what we did, the intent was bring back an iconic American brand, make the car here in America, engineer the car in America, design the car, here in American and overwhelmingly sell the car here in America. So this, maybe complicated American moment is basically what Scout was made for. “
8. Pan shot of employees at Scout Motors paint shop interior
9. Close of Scott Keogh walking
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Keogh, Scout Motors CEO:
“As of right now on the construction side, the heavy duty stuff I would say has been sourced, right. The steel is in place, you can see it there. The equipment that's going to be working its way for the most part has been source and it's on its way. So, I see relative stability. Is it all perfect, every contract dialed in and if something changes somewhere around the world, there could be an impact. But I feel relatively stable because the phase we're in, either it's in-place already, it's been contracted or it's close to being sourced. So, I feel relatively good about it. But again, it's a speculative question because, yeah, it’s moving every day.”
11. Zoom shot of Scout Motors car plant
12. Wide of tour of paint shop UPSOUND (English) Peter Strom, Scout Motors manufacturing engineering specialist: “So these vehicles are coming in as just a bare metal body. They're going to come overhead and come into our first process here. This process is basically a car wash to clean all of the oils and residues off the car before it goes into our first painting process.”
13. Various of paint shop
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Keogh, Scout Motors CEO:
15. Various of paint shop equipment
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Keogh, Scout Motors CEO:
“Of course, there's going to be hundreds of suppliers feeding this ability. That'll bring another roughly approximately 5,000 to 5,500 jobs. Majority of these will be here in the state of South Carolina. You'll see a little bit about our supplier park. Some will be right there. Others are active looking for sites and real estate within South Carolina as we move forward. I think if you look at our supply base, about 50% should come within 200 miles of the plant. That's good, keeps logistics costs down. The other decisions we'll be making as we progress and go along.”
17. Wide of Scout Motors car plant





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