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Toyota to assemble new 3-row electric SUV in Kentucky; additional $2.1B investment in North Carolina battery plant

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Toyota will assemble an all-new, three-row, battery electric SUV at Toyota Kentucky starting in 2025. The company’s first US-assembled BEV will be powered by batteries from Toyota North Carolina. billion investment to support future expansion in the company’s drive toward carbon neutrality.

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VinFast to build EV and battery factory in North Carolina

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Vietnam-based VinFast and the government of North Carolina signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the establishment of VinFast’s first North American manufacturing plant. According to the MOU, VinFast will continue to invest in this factory in future phases.

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Toyota to build $50M automotive battery lab at Michigan R&D headquarters

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By adding these critical evaluation capabilities around automotive batteries, our team is positioned to better serve the needs of our customers, including Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, the latter of which will soon be assembling the recently announced all-new, three-row, battery electric SUV.

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Toyota invests more in the United States for battery & BEV production

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The veteran automaker plans to invest more in its North Carolina battery plant in preparation for a new battery-electric SUV. Toyota’s electric SUV will be assembled in the United States, qualifying for the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) electric vehicle (EV) tax incentives. billion in the North Carolina-based facility.

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Toyota preps new large electric SUV, is this the Highlander EV we’ve been waiting for?

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Another fully electric large Toyota SUV is on its way. Toyota announced it’s preparing its three-row electric SUV as part of a new $1.4 A new large Toyota electric SUV is coming to the US Since 2021, Toyota has invested 18.6 However, that electric SUV will be built at its Kentucky plant, set for production next year.

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Toyota ups investment in Kentucky plant set to make 3-row electric SUV

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billion investment in its Georgetown, Kentucky, assembly plant to prepare for production of a 3-row electric SUV. This additional money, which brings the plant’s total investment to nearly $10 billion, “supports the previously announced future BEV assembly at Toyota Kentucky,” according to a company press release.

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Toyota invests billions in EV production at Indiana and Kentucky plants – Charged EVs

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Usually this sort of cognitive dissonance is considered a bad thing, but in Toyota ’s case it may be otherwise—the company’s leaders have long been the auto industry’s most prominent anti-EV voices, even as the company itself has quietly but steadily prepared for the electric future. Case in point: Toyota recently announced $1.4

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