PLYMOUTH — Specialty automobile producer The Shyft Group Inc., beforehand headquartered in Charlotte, launched within the current day that it has opened a model new evaluation and enchancment center in Wayne County.
The 40,000-square-foot facility, located at 47632 Halyard Drive in Plymouth, shall be home to the company’s mobility evaluation and enchancment division, referred to as Shyft Improvements.
The company will use the power to manufacture its electrical automobile chassis, which is designed to service numerous truck functions, along with last-mile parcel provide fleets, work vans, passenger buses and leisure cars.
“Opening a devoted R&D facility displays our dedication to fixed innovation,” The Shyft Group President Daryl Adams talked about in a press launch. “Our strategic EV chassis improvement initiative, introduced in June, is simply the primary in a lot of future developments from Shyft Improvements that may drive developments in each mobility and different propulsion.”
Final summer season, The Shyft Group — then typically referred to as Spartan Motors Inc. — launched its new name and that it will likely be relocating its firm headquarters from Charlotte to Novi. The company divested its emergency response cars division, selling it to Milwaukee-based REV Group Inc., which moreover inherited the Spartan Motors title.
The Shyft Group continues to operate manufacturing providers in Charlotte, the place the company earlier this yr launched a hiring push.
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