Panasonic chooses Kansas for its vehicle battery mega-factory

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Japan’s Panasonic Corp. has chosen Kansas as the site of a multibillion-dollar mega-factory to produce electric vehicle batteries for Tesla and other automakers, Governor Laura Kelly announced Wednesday.

The decision comes months after the Democratic governor and the Republican-controlled legislature rushed to approve a billion-dollar taxpayer-funded incentive package, the largest in the state, to attract the company and the “thousands of jobs” promised, even though most of them did not. I don’t know which company was involved.

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