With $4 billion in facility-specific investment and 4,000 permanent operating jobs announced, this project clears both of AFT's qualifying thresholds ($100 million in facility-specific investment OR 100 permanent operating jobs). This project also meets AFT's primary-source verification and physical U.S. manufacturing-footprint requirements.
View full methodology →The battery manufacturing context.
Battery manufacturing has become one of the largest concentrations of new industrial investment in the United States. A network of cell plants is taking shape across the Midwest and Southeast, connecting automakers, battery producers, critical-material suppliers and energy-storage markets. Federal production incentives have accelerated that build-out, while the next test will be whether announced capacity converts into sustained domestic production.
At a glance
- Company
- Panasonic Energy
- Industry
- Battery Manufacturing
- Location
- De Soto, Kansas
- Investment
- $4.00B
- Permanent jobs announced
- 4,000
- Status
- Operational
- Announced
- Jul 13, 2022
- Operations began
- Jul 14, 2025
- Added to tracker
- Apr 15, 2025
Official references
- Primary source https://na.panasonic.com/news/panasonic-energy-begins-mass-production-at-new-automotive-lithium-ion-battery-factory-in-kansas-aiming-for-annual-capacity-of-32-gwh-to-accelerate-us-local-production
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