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...
“Kansas has an impressive history of being home to a skilled manufacturing workforce,” said Kris Takamoto, Executive Vice President of Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd., Head of EV Battery Business. “We appreciate Kansas’s dedication to sustainability and its commitment to and growth in the clean ...
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.
DE SOTO — As construction crews build Panasonic’s new $4 billion factory here, the Kansas tax subsidy law that helped bring the electric vehicle battery plant to the state is set to evaporate. Kansas officials no longer have the power to underwrite mega-deal projects...
Panasonic’s Kansas battery plant is expected to produce 4680 cells for Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas facility. Giga Texas is pivotal to Tesla’s North American operations, and it is the site where some of the company’smost important vehicleslike the Model Y, Cybertruck, and possibly the Tesla ...
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...