{"id":314024,"date":"2025-02-05T18:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T18:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/toyotas-first-ev-battery-plant-in-the-us-is-ready-for-business-but-theres-more\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T18:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T18:05:04","slug":"toyotas-first-ev-battery-plant-in-the-us-is-ready-for-business-but-theres-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/toyotas-first-ev-battery-plant-in-the-us-is-ready-for-business-but-theres-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota\u2019s first EV battery plant in the US is ready for business, but there\u2019s more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/02\/toyotas-first-ev-battery-plant-in-the-us-is-ready-for-business-but-theres-more.jpg\" \/>The world\u2019s largest automaker wants to catch up in the global EV race after falling behind rivals like Tesla and BYD. On Wednesday, Toyota\u00a0announced that its $14 billion EV battery plant in North Carolina is open for business. The new facility will begin shipping batteries for Toyota\u2019s electric vehicles in April. Meanwhile, Toyota revealed separate plans to challenge BYD and other EV leaders in China. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2025\/02\/05\/toyota-opens-first-ev-battery-plant-in-us-but-theres-more\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/toyotas-first-ev-battery-plant-in-the-us-is-ready-for-business-but-theres-more\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":314025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}