According to a report by Inside EV on Wednesday, Toyota will begin operations at its newly constructed battery plant in North Carolina this April.
This facility represents Toyota’s first in-house battery production site outside of Japan. It will produce batteries for electric vehicles, hybrids, and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) assembled in North America.
The plant has 14 assembly lines, 10 producing modules for electric and PHEV vehicles and 4 for hybrids. Toyota projects that in 2030, the facility will produce 30 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of batteries annually, enough to power approximately 400,000 electric cars.
While Toyota offers only one electric vehicle model, the bZ4X, it plans to introduce up to seven new electric vehicles to the U.S. market within two years. To support this expansion, Toyota has invested roughly $10 billion in the North Carolina battery plant and in expanding its facility in Georgetown, Kentucky.
Toyota saw significant growth in the U.S. electric vehicle market last year, with sales of the bZ4X reportedly doubling compared to the previous year.
