Panasonic’s new US$4 billion battery factory in De Soto, Kansas, is designed to be a model of sustainability—it’s an all-electric factory with no need for a smokestack. When finished, it will cover the size of 48 football fields, employ 4,000 people and produce enough advanced batteries to supply half a million electric cars per year.
America’s green manufacturing boom, from EV batteries to solar panel production, isn’t powered by renewable energy
