{"id":505772,"date":"2022-07-15T10:51:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T05:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=505772"},"modified":"2022-07-15T13:07:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T07:37:15","slug":"panasonic-to-build-4-bn-electric-vehicle-battery-plant-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/panasonic-to-build-4-bn-electric-vehicle-battery-plant-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Panasonic to build $4 bn electric vehicle battery plant in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese electronics giant Panasonic said Thursday it will spend $4 billion to build a new battery factory in the United States for electric vehicles. <\/p>\n<p>The lithium-ion battery plant in Kansas could create up to 4,000 new jobs, Panasonic said, as the Tesla supplier drives to expand its presence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the increased electrification of the automotive market, expanding battery production in the US is critical to help meet demand,&#8221; Kazuo Tadanobu, president and CEO of Panasonic Energy, said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>The factory will be Panasonic&#8217;s second electric car battery operation in the United States, joining its facility in Nevada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese electronics giant Panasonic said Thursday it will spend $4 billion to build a new battery factory in the United States for electric vehicles. The lithium-ion battery plant in Kansas could create up to 4,000 new jobs, Panasonic said, as the Tesla supplier drives to expand its presence. &#8220;With the increased electrification of the automotive market, expanding battery production in the US is critical to help meet demand,&#8221; Kazuo Tadanobu, president and CEO of Panasonic Energy, said in a statement. The factory will be Panasonic&#8217;s second electric car battery operation in the United States, joining its facility in Nevada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}