{"id":174301,"date":"2025-11-12T14:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T05:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=174301&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2025-11-12T14:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T05:33:09","slug":"toyota-delays-fukuoka-ev-battery-plant","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/toyota-delays-fukuoka-ev-battery-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Delays Fukuoka EV Battery Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Toyota Motor Corporation has again postponed construction of its electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in Kanda, Fukuoka Prefecture. Governor Seitaro Hattori said the delay was unavoidable given the global slowdown in EV demand. Toyota purchased a 280,000-square-meter site for about \u00a56 billion and initially planned to begin production in 2028. The company will now spend about a year revising its business plan, which may further delay operations or shift production toward other vehicle-related products. While Hattori dismissed the possibility of withdrawal, the decision follows Nissan\u2019s cancellation of a similar project in Kitakyushu, underscoring growing uncertainty for Japan\u2019s EV strategy amid tightening subsidies and weak global sales. <\/span><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/newsdig.tbs.co.jp\/articles\/rkb\/2275599\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RKB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-174307\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/fnn_toyota-car-unsplash_2025_cl.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Toyota Delays Fukuoka EV Battery Plant\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/fnn_toyota-car-unsplash_2025_cl.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/fnn_toyota-car-unsplash_2025_cl.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/fnn_toyota-car-unsplash_2025_cl.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/fnn_toyota-car-unsplash_2025_cl.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo by<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Serzill Hasan<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unsplash<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay informed with the latest Fukuoka &amp; Kyushu news and events in English. Sign up for our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">free weekly newsletter <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">today and never miss a beat. Opt out anytime, your privacy is our priority. Get the inside scoop with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Summaries based on public content, errors may occur during translation. Images credited independently. Send feedback using <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/contact\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this <\/span><b>form<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota Motor Corporation has again postponed construction of its electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in Kanda, Fukuoka Prefecture&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":174307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-174301","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-business","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/174301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}