Panasonic broke ground in November on a $4 billion battery plant in De Soto, Kan., to supply Tesla and other customers.
Panasonic
Automakers and their battery partners are preparing to ramp up production in the U.S. and Canada over the next few years. Click on the battery icons to view their plans.
Battery plants in the works
Source: Intelligence Report 2023, Automotive News
GM and LG will invest up to $2.6 billion to build a battery plant near Lansing, Mich., near two existing assembly plants, slated to open in late 2024.
GM, LG Energy Solution
Production began at an Ultium Cells LLC plant, part of a joint venture with LG Energy Solution, in 2022.
GM, LG Energy Solution
Announced a joint venture in October to invest $3.5 billion on battery production near Columbus, Ohio.
Honda,
LG Energy
Blue Oval SK Battery Park, a joint venture with SK Innovation, is expected to open in 2025. It will comprise two battery plants in central Kentucky for Ford and Lincoln nameplates. One will open in 2025 and the other in 2026.
Ford Motor Co.
The Japanese supplier is investing $2 billion in Bowling Green, Ky., initially to supply Mercedes-Benz in Alabama but to include other automakers in the future.
Envision AESC
Battery production launched this year at Plant 1, which will supply the VW ID.4 and Ford F-150 Lightning. Plant 2 will build batteries for the F-150 Lightning. It's expected to open in 2023.
SK Innovation
General Motors will build its fourth battery plant, its first with joint venture partner Samsung SDI, in northern Indiana, the state's governor said in June.
General Motors, Samsung SDI
Stellantis and Samsung SDI will jointly produce EV batteries in Kokomo, Ind. The plant is expected to open in 2025. It will have an initial capacity of 23 gigawatt hours, with an aim to increase to 33 gigawatt hours within a few years.
Stellantis
VW's Chattanooga complex has been expanded to begin battery-pack assembly for the ID.4 model; pilot builds are being done. The complex will eventually supply other VW models.
Volkswagen
The Ultium Cells joint venture between GM and LG Energy Solution is expected to begin producing batteries in 2023 in Spring Hill, Tenn.
General Motors
Blue Oval City will make batteries, along with electric F-Series pickups, northeast of Memphis, Tenn.
Ford Motor Co.
The plant, to be built adjacent to Hyundai's new EV factory under construction near Savannah, Ga., will have an annual capacity of 30 gigawatt hours, enough to power 300,000 electric vehicles.
Hyundai,
LG Energy
Toyota Battery Manufacturing, North Carolina, is expected to open by 2025. It will be near the town of Liberty and is eventually expected to run six assembly lines, enough to power up to 1.2 million vehicles annually.
Toyota
In December, the company announced an $810 million plant in Florence, S.C., to produce BMW's newest generation of batteries.
Envision AESC
LG Energy Solution plans to invest $5.5 billion to build a battery manufacturing campus in Queen Creek, Ariz., about 40 miles east of Phoenix. The complex will have two facilities, one for cylindrical batteries for EVs and another for lithium iron phosphate batteries for energy storage systems. The facilities will have a capacity of 43 gigawatt hours.
LG Energy Solution
Gotion Inc. plans to build a $2.4 billion factory in Green Township, Mich. Gotion's plan is to build four manufacturing plants on about 500 acres in Green Township, but work was on hold for a month as the company awaited results from a federal review examining potential national security risks.
Gotion
Our Next Energy Inc., a battery startup in Michigan, last year committed $1.6 billion to open a plant in Van Buren Charter Township, Mich., that will produce about 20 gigawatt hours in lithium iron phosphate batteries for commercial vehicles.
Our Next Energy
Samsung SDI and General Motors will build a joint-venture EV battery plant in New Carlisle, Ind., with an expected cost of $3 billion. Its planned capacity will be more than 30 gigawatt hours.
GM, Samsung SDI
SK Innovation has a joint venture with Hyundai Motor Group for a battery plant in Bartow County, Ga. The plant is expected to start making battery cells in 2025 with an annual production capacity of 35 gigawatt hours, enough for about 300,000 EVs.
Hyundai,
SK Innovation
The lithium-ion polymer battery cells and packs plant in Holland, Mich., is getting a $1.7B expansion. Construction is expected to be completed in April, with production up to full capacity in 2025.
LG Energy Solution
Stellantis and partner LG Energy Solution will build Canada’s first large-scale EV battery plant in Windsor, Ontario. The plant is expected to begin operations in 2024 and will have capacity to produce 45 gigawatt hours of lithium ion battery cells and modules.
Stellantis, LG Energy Solution
Volkswagen Group plans to spend $7 billion to build a battery cell manufacturing plant in St. Thomas, Ontario, with its battery subsidiary PowerCo. The plant will have capacity to build 90 gigawatt hours of battery cells a year, enough to power about 1 million EVs.
PowerCo (Volkswagen)
Ford Motor Co. said it will open a $3.5 billion battery plant in Marshall, Mich., in 2026. Ford will own the BlueOval Battery Park Michigan location and will use technology from China's CATL.
Ford Motor Co., CATL
