Tesla supplier Panasonic plans additional $4 billion US EV battery plant

Panasonic Holdings Corp., a supplier to electric-car maker Tesla Inc., is in talks to build an additional electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in the United States at a cost of around $4 billion, citing people familiar with the matter.
Panasonic is looking at Oklahoma as the location for its new plant.
A Panasonic spokesperson said: “We are examining various growth strategies for our automotive battery business, but there is no further information that we can share at the moment aside from what we have already announced.”
In July, Panasonic selected Kansas as the site for a new battery plant that state officials said would create up to 4,000 jobs with an investment of up to $4 billion.