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Japan-based electric vehicle battery manufacturer AESC has broken ground on its new $810 million plant in Florence County, SC

1.5M SF AESC Electric Vehicle Battery Factory Breaks Ground in S. Carolina

Japan-based electric vehicle battery manufacturer AESC has broken ground on its new $810 million plant in Florence County, SC. The 1.5-million-square-foot factory is expected to open in 2026, creating 1,170 jobs. 

The 30-GWh battery plant builds on AESC’s existing U.S. battery manufacturing network that includes a plant already operating in Tennessee and another under construction in Kentucky. When the company’s U.S. plants are completed, they will provide up to 70 GWh capacity annually.

“Today, South Carolina is proud to celebrate AESC as the company embarks on a historic chapter in our state,” said Gov. McMaster at the groundbreaking ceremony. “Florence County has been ripe for an investment of this magnitude — one that will transform local communities and create generational wealth for South Carolinians. The groundbreaking for AESC’s battery cell gigafactory is a landmark moment in the evolution of South Carolina’s rapidly expanding electric vehicle industry.”

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Angela Noote is a native of Northern California and graduated from Chico State with a degree in public relations. After college she moved to the Central Coast and worked first in ad sales then in editorial, eventually spending more than a decade as a print reporter and editor. She detoured into design work at a printer/publisher, and with a partner eventually opened a boutique full-service marketing agency. Moving into corporate communications, she built and managed several successful marketing teams in the hospitality, financial services, and nonprofit industries. Most recently she was an internal comms manager in the tech sector. After a long stint spent in Georgia (Go Dawgs), she moved to Baton Rouge, LA and has written for clients in the financial, luxury imports, higher ed, commercial cleaning, and medical equipment industries. Her son is a media arts major at the University of South Carolina, and her husband owns a comedy theater in Baton Rouge, where you can often find Angi teaching improv classes, leading corporate training events, or doing an occasional stand up set.

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