{"id":182239,"date":"2024-02-07T22:23:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T04:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/toyota-commits-1-3-billion-to-ev-development-in-kentucky"},"modified":"2024-02-07T22:23:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T04:23:34","slug":"toyota-commits-1-3-billion-to-ev-development-in-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/toyota-commits-1-3-billion-to-ev-development-in-kentucky","title":{"rendered":"Toyota commits $1.3 billion to EV development in Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/toyota-commits-1-3-billion-to-ev-development-in-kentucky.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Toyota announced today that it will invest $1.3 billion in the development of future electric vehicles at its flagship Kentucky facility.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese automaker said it would bring an all-new, three-row battery electric SUV to the U.S. market thanks to the investment. Toyota has now committed nearly $10 billion in investments to the Kentucky plant, aiming to build high-quality vehicles and offer job stability to its employees at the factory.<\/p>\n<p>The investment is also set to support the addition of a battery pack assembly line to the Kentucky plant. The batteries used in the packs assembled in Kentucky will come from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/toyota-north-carolina-battery-plant-8-billion\/\">Toyota\u2019s Battery Manufacturing Plant in North Carolina<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota announced today that it will invest $1.3 billion in the development of future electric vehicles at its flagship Kentucky facility. The Japanese automaker said it would bring an all-new, three-row battery electric SUV to the U.S. market thanks to the investment. Toyota has now committed nearly $10 billion in investments to the Kentucky plant, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}