LAS VEGAS, U.S. -- Panasonic Energy still plans to build a third electric vehicle battery plant in the U.S. despite scrapping a tentative plan last year to build a facility in Oklahoma, an executive told Nikkei Asia.
Allan Swan, president of Panasonic Energy of North America, discussed the plans on the sidelines of the CES electronics trade show in Las Vegas on Monday. Swan did not provide details but said the company, which supplies Tesla, still needs "more plants" to reach its goal of increasing annual production capacity from 50 gigawatt-hours currently to 200 gigawatt-hours by 2031.
