In September 2025, Panasonic Energy sent shockwaves through the electric vehicle (EV) industry by unveiling a radical new ...

Panasonic is churning out hundreds of thousands of EV batteries daily in De Soto — and it isn't even at full capacity yet.

In 2005, China only had two EV battery manufacturers. Twenty years later, it produces more than three-quarters of the world's lithium-ion cells. How did it happen?

Japan's Panasonic Holdings cut its full-year operating profit forecast by 13.5% on Thursday, mainly due to an expected ...

Senator Roger Marshall now calls the Panasonic EV battery plant a "boondoggle" after initially supporting it. Panasonic recently delayed full-scale production at the Kansas plant amid a downturn in ...

This story is part of an ongoing series, Powering Change: Panasonic and De Soto. If you'd like to share your excitement or concerns about the electric vehicle battery plant, you can do so here.

Plus, Panasonic has started producing batteries in Kansas en masse and the Nexperia chip shortage is about to hit Japanese automakers hard.

Electric vehicles (EVs), benefiting globally from a push for tighter emissions controls, are facing challenges after a global ...

For forty years, the automotive manufacturing industry has been hemorrhaging jobs, down 6.7 million in 2019 from the all-time peak. But now, the seeds of a renaissance are sprouting – manufacturers ...

Panasonic is gearing up to shake up the EV world once again with a next-generation battery breakthrough that could give the Tesla Model Y an extra 90 miles of range, pushing it past 450 miles (725 km) ...

THANKS FOR JOINING US TODAY. I’M CODY HOLYOKE. WE BEGIN WITH MAJOR ECONOMIC NEWS RIGHT IN OUR OWN BACKYARD. KANSAS IS CERTAINLY ENERGIZED RIGHT NOW BY THE OPENING IN JOHNSON COUNTY OF PANASONIC’S ...