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Panasonic Battery Factory #2
Panasonic
De Soto, KS, USA
-94.9968, 38.93833333
The Big Green Machine Site ID: 73
Additional Information:
Sector: Batteries
Activity: Manufacturing
Product: Battery Cell
Project Announcement Date: 7/14/2022
Target for Starting Production: 2025
Date Commercial Production Started:
Announced Post Inflation Reduction Act: No
Target Annual Production: 30 GWh
Operating Status: Under Construction
Target Jobs: 4000
Current Jobs: 317
Capital Investment: $4000 million
Congressional District: KS3
Government Subsidies:
Local/State: $1072.2 million
Selected Sources:
“Panasonic Energy and Kansas Partner to Advance Plans for US-based EV Battery Facility”, panasonic.com, 13 Jul 2022. 🔗
“JoCo, De Soto and Kansas add millions more in incentives toward Panasonic battery plant”, Kevin Hardy, Kansas City Star, 04 Jan 2023. 🔗
“Panasonic Energy Breaks Ground on EV Battery Factory in Kansas”, Panasonic Corporation of North America, PR Newswire, 02 Nov 2022. 🔗
“US unit of Spain's ACS to build EV battery plant for Panasonic in Kansas”, Reuters, Reuters, 02 Mar 2023. 🔗
“Johnson County $4 billion Panasonic plant may get $8 billion in taxpayer incentives: report”, Kevin Hardy, Kansas City Star, 13 Jul 2023. 🔗
“Here's where construction stands on Panasonic's $4B EV-battery plant in De Soto”, Kansas City Business Journal, 19 Nov 2023. 🔗
“State, local and federal governments cut Panasonic huge deals; explaining all tax incentives”, Alyssa Jackson, KSHB 41 Kansas City News, 29 Jan 2025. 🔗
“Please wait while your request is being verified...”, flatlandkc.org, No Date. 🔗
“Panasonic hiring as De Soto EV battery plant gets set to start production”, Roxie Hammill, Johnson County Post, 22 Jan 2025. 🔗
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