Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina (TBMNC), Toyota’s first in-house battery manufacturing plant outside Japan, is ready to begin production and will start shipping batteries for North American electrified vehicles in April.

The nearly $14-billion battery facility, Toyota’s 11^th manufacturing plant in the United States, will produce batteries for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and battery electric vehicles (BEVs). The plant will have 14 production lines including four supporting battery production for Hybrid Electric Vehicles and 10 supporting battery production for battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.

The new battery plant is part of Toyota’s “best-in-town” approach—investing and producing locally, contributing to the local community and offering products tailored to local needs through a multi-pathway strategy. To date, Toyota’s total US investment stands at $49 billion, which supports more than 280,000 jobs in the industry.