Toyota will soon be starting production of electric vehicle batteries at its new plant in the US state of North Carolina. The Japanese carmaker intends to supply batteries for the North American market starting in April 2025. Production will include batteries for hybrid vehicles, plug-in hybrids, and all-electric vehicles. It will be Toyotaʼs first battery plant outside of Japan.
30 gigawatt-hours annually from 2030
With an investment volume of almost 14 billion US dollars, around 5,000 jobs are set to be created in North Carolina. Production is scheduled to ramp up to a total of more than 30 gigawatt-hours per year by 2030, with incremental ramp-ups of production lines. In December 2021, Toyota had first announced the construction of the battery facility in the town of Liberty. Groundbreaking for the plant had taken place in mid-2022. The site is one of the companyʼs eleven manufacturing facilities in the United States.
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