COLUMBUS (AP) — Honda says it will build a $3.5 billion joint-venture battery factory in Fayette County and hire 2,200 people to staff it as it starts to turn the state into its North American electric vehicle hub.
The company also plans to invest $700 million and add 300 jobs at plants in Marysville and East Liberty and its engine plant in Anna, north of Dayton, to prepare them to start making EVs and components.
The battery plant, to be built jointly with LG Energy Solution of South Korea, could see a total investment of $4.4 billion.
The Fayette County plant site is off I-71 at U.S. Route 35, according to the office of Gov. Mike DeWine.