Toyota has chosen North Carolina’s Greensboro-Randolph megasite as the area of a new $1.29 billion car battery producing plant for its electric vehicles.

The plant, which will come online in 2025, will have four creation lines, each equipped for conveying sufficient lithium-particle batteries for 200,000 vehicles. Toyota intends to extend the office to somewhere around six creation lines to deliver sufficient battery packs for up to 1.2 million vehicles each year.

Toyota said it selected the Greensboro-Randolph megasite due to the area’s renewable energy availability, extensive and well-maintained highway system for overland logistics, four international airports and two seaports, onsite rail, diverse workforce, world-renowned education system and strong government partnership at the state and local levels.

“The future of mobility is zap and the Greensboro-Randolph Megasite is the ideal area to make that future a reality,” Toyota North America CEO Ted Ogawa said in an assertion.

“North Carolina offers the right conditions for this venture, including the infrastructure, high quality education system, access to a diverse and skilled workforce, and a welcoming environment for doing business. Today marks the beginning of a mutually beneficial partnership with the Tar Heel state as we embark on our journey to achieve carbon neutrality and provide mobility for all.”

Toyota Battery Manufacturing North America is relied upon to make 1,750 new American positions. The automaker underscored it is focused on utilizing 100% sustainable power at the new office to create the batteries as it seeks arrive at carbon nonpartisanship for its vehicles and operations by 2050.

The $1.29 billion investment from Toyota and Toyota Tsusho is to some extent subsidized by a $3.4 billion obligation to put resources into US car batteries through 2030.