Panasonic, together with Kansas Governor Laura Kelly, officially announced today an agreement related to the location of the company's new US lithium-ion battery cell factory. The Japanese company intends to build the plant in De Soto, Kansas, investing $4 billion and create up to 4,000 new ...
Japanese broadcaster NHK reported this year that the company was looking to build the factory in Kansas or Oklahoma, close to Texas, where Tesla is building an electric-vehicle plant. The two companies jointly operate a battery plant in Nevada. FILE - A worker is busy at a battery assembly ...
Panasonic had already put its pilot line in Japan into operation and also delivered thefirst 4680 sample cells to Tesla. Officially, however, the Kansas plant has remained a pure 2170 production facility to this day.
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produce 4680 battery cells by 2030, as a spokesperson toldReuters. Following a strategy presentation, Panasonic CEO Yuki Kusumi indicated that they had yet to decide where exactly where in North America to expand. “It could be Nevada, it could be Kansas or it could be somewhere else”, he...