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Tesla Battery provider Panasonic is pushing to accelerate the supply of Japanese products, and the CEO of Japan is a sign that the US protectionist measures are prepared by China’s opponents.
Yuki Kusumi, in an interview with foreign media in Tokyo, the concept of Tesla, which is a large customer, said that he encouraged his production to start faster New Kansas Plant, Most likely Chinese Batteries Due to the combination of subsidies and tariffs was less profitable to bring to the United States.
“As we say that our customer said to move Kansas quickly, we are in a hurry to do so,” Kusumi said. He thought that the customer thinks that Chinese batteries are replaced by the US-made panaconics, and the electric vehicles sold in the United States will help significant consumer tax credits.
Panasonic’s plant, Kansas, Kansas, near the first production since 2022, will raise the power of production in March 2027 to 60 percent.
Kusumi did not write the name of Tesla. However, the largest client of the Tesla long time Panasonic, Elon Musk’s car group helped Nevada Gigaffactory jointly combined Nevada Gigaffactory.
Kansas runs in a hurry to bring online, the meter to delay and cancel the automatic sector for battery and home plants in front of slower sales growth for electric cars.
Tuesday Honda announced that he had been late for at least two years $ 11 billion battery investment In Canada, Nissan left the plans for a battery plant in Japan, after a similar action by Toyota this year.
Tesla previously sold a cheap valuable version of the 3rd model 3 in the United States, used a battery from China, but was stopped last year. The vehicle would not be suitable for subsidies under the package of the US clean energy industry subsidy.
Texas-based car manufacturer tried to trust the US-made batteries mainly for models sold in the United States, but each model does not fully disclose the origin of batteries for the option.
Kusumi stressed the potential risks to demand EVS, which are sold by the Great Customer in North America, causing the burning of a certain car manufacturer.
Tesla Vehicles have been Vandalized in the United States Elon protests against the controversial leadership of the government’s efficiency department of government management. The consumer took a backed United States in the first three months of this year in 2022 to the worst quarter of the United States.
“There are risks, but from today we plan to make a solid demand for the batteries from our main customer,” Kusumi said.
PlanaSonic dropped During the reception of the electric vehicle, after the heavy betting in Tesla, China and Korean rivals. In 2016, the world’s leading home fell from the battery manufacturer.
In September last year, the opening of a Japanese battery plant in Wakayam and the opening of a new Kansas factory, which will be opened in the spring of this year.
Kusumi refused to provide a clear schedule to start production by saying that the company is the internal target.
Last week, Panasonic, pay attention to more profitable enterprises and focus on less profitable enterprises, as well as taking into account the withdrawal from the television section of the television.
