Samsung, Stellantis to Build EV Battery Plant in Indiana, Company’s Second in North America

Construction of the plant is expected to start later this year, with the facility expected to open in early 2025.

By Associated Press | Updated: 25 May 2022 14:19 IST

Samsung, Stellantis to Build EV Battery Plant in Indiana, Company’s Second in North America

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Construction of Stellantis' new plant is expected to start later this year

Highlights

Stellantis and Samsung will build EV batteries in Indiana
The factory is expected to employ up to 1,400 workers
It will be Stellantis' second such factory in North America

A joint venture between Stellantis and Samsung plans to build an electric vehicle battery factory in Indiana that will employ up to 1,400 workers and become the company's second such factory in North America.

The venture announced Tuesday plans to spend more than $2.5 billion (roughly Rs. 19,400 crore) on the plant in Kokomo that will supply electric battery modules for a range of vehicles produced at Stellantis' North American assembly plants.

Construction of the plant is expected to start later this year, with the facility expected to open in early 2025 in the city about 60 miles (97km) north of Indianapolis.

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The venture's investment in the plant could gradually increase up to $3.1 billion (roughly Rs. 24,000 crore), Mark Stewart, the chief operating officer of Stellantis North America, said at the announcement at Ivy Tech Community College in Kokomo.

Samsung SDI will use its PRiMX technology to produce electric vehicle battery cells and modules for the North American market at the Kokomo plant, the companies said in a statement.

Stellantis, formed last year with the merger of Fiat Chrysler and France's PSA Peugeot, had said it would build two electric vehicle battery factories in North America. The Kokomo plant would be the second of those plants and the first in the United States.

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In March, it announced plans to spend $4.1 billion (roughly Rs. 31,800 crore) in a joint venture with LG Energy Solution of Korea to build one of the plants in Windsor, Ontario. That plant will employ about 2,500 people.

Stellantis, the world's fourth-largest automaker, has announced plans to sell 5 million electric vehicles by 2030, with 50 percent of its North American passenger car and light truck sales going fully electric by 2030. Stellantis plans to sell only electric passenger cars in Europe by 2030.

Stellantis in October announced plans to spend nearly $230 million (roughly Rs. 1,800 crore) to retool three Kokomo-area factories so they can produce transmission systems that work with both traditional gasoline-powered vehicles and gas-electric hybrid versions.

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In 2020 it announced spending of $400 million (roughly Rs. 3,100 crore) to convert its Indiana Transmission Plant II in Kokomo into an engine factory.

“Today's announcement is another step toward positioning Indiana as a leader in the future of mobility, battery technology and clean energy,” Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb said in a statement.

Indiana is offering the planned electric battery factory an incentive package of up to about $186.5 million (roughly Rs. 1,400 crore) in conditional tax credits, training grants and investments, including funding that would offset the costs of the plant's infrastructure, the Indiana Economic Development Corporation said.

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