Panasonic to start building Kansas battery plant next month - 31 octombrie 2022
Japan's Panasonic Holdings Corp (DE.MAT1) said on Monday it will start building a new battery plant in Kansas in November and aims to begin mass production by March 2025, targeting North America's fast-growing market for electric vehicles. The conglomerate's energy unit said in July it had picked Kansas as the site for a new plant to supply batteries primarily to Tesla Inc (US.TSLA), joining other battery producers planning massive U.S. investments to qualify for new EV tax credit rules and to tap that market's potentially massive demand.
Report an ad Panasonic said in a statement that it expects initial production capacity of 30 gigawatt hours per year at the new plant. That's equivalent to roughly 60% of the company's current annual EV battery production capacity in Japan and the United States.