Toyota flips the switch on $14billion US megafactory to build battery-powered cars as sales boom

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Toyota starts $14B US factory to build battery cars as sales boom

Clouds have been cast over the future of fully electric vehicles, but Toyota's approach is different.

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Toyota just flipped the switch on a $14billion battery factory in Liberty, North Carolina.

It's the Japanese automaker's first battery plant outside Japan and the company's biggest single-site investment ever. Toyota expects to hire 5,000 staffers.

The plant comes amid a massive shift for automakers.