BMW battery plant nears completion in Upstate SC

By: Jessica Holdman

Outlets: South Carolina Daily Gazette

Published: July 31, 2026

Words: 699

Last Updated: 3 days, 6 hours ago

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WOODRUFF — BMW will begin assembling battery packs for its new, South Carolina-built electric vehicles in December.

The German automaker has already hired and begun training more than 300 people at the battery assembly plant near the town of Woodruff, 15 miles from its vehicle plant in nearby Greer.

Those employees will work alongside 250 robots to put together the batteries for the all-electric iX5, which the company unveiled in June.

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