Natron Energy has announced it will build the first sodium-ion battery gigafactory in the US, in North Carolina.
The Santa Clara, California-headquartered sodium-ion battery technology company will build the sodium-ion battery gigafactory in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, where it expects to produce 24 gigawatts (GW) of sodium-ion batteries annually at full capacity.
The Edgecombe County factory will enable a 40x scale-up of Natron’s current production capacity – it already has a factory in Holland, Michigan – while supporting over 1,000 jobs at full operating capacity.
The nearly 1.2 million-square-foot factory at the 437-acre Kingsboro megasite (pictured above) will represent a total investment of nearly $1.4 billion from Natron Energy. It’s facilitated in part by a Job Development Investment Grant from the North Carolina Department of Commerce, which gives…
