Just four months after announcing an expansion of its electric vehicle battery production facility under construction in Florence County, S.C., battery technology manufacturer AESC has announced plans to build a second facility on the same 500-acre industrial park campus.
Announcing the venture in December 2022, AESC broke ground last June at the Florence Global Technology and Commerce Park for the initial $810-million, 1.5-million-sq-ft manufacturing facility, which will supply battery cells for next-generation EVs produced by BMW’s Spartanburg, S.C., assembly plant. Just six months into construction and one year after the initial announcement, AESC debuted its plans to double the project's size to ensure adequate production capacity when operations begin in 2026.