Panasonic Holdings Corp. is planning to speculate a number of billion {dollars} in a manufacturing facility in Kansas to provide a brand new high-capacity battery for Tesla Inc.‘s electrical autos, Nikkei reported on Wednesday.

The Japanese conglomerate goals to triple or quadruple EV battery manufacturing capability by fiscal 2028 from the present degree of roughly 50 gigawatt-hours per yr, in line with the report.

Earlier in June, Reuters reported Panasonic was taking a look at potential manufacturing facility websites in Kansas and Oklahoma to provide batteries to the U.S. electrical automaker’s plant in Texas.

Panasonic already has a manufacturing facility in Nevada that provides smaller batteries to Tesla.

Panasonic and Tesla didn’t instantly reply to Reuters’ requests for remark. Kansas and Oklahoma authorities officers weren’t instantly accessible for remark.

The corporate, which is Tesla’s battery provider for greater than a decade, additionally stated it had shipped samples of its extra highly effective 4680 format battery to the electric-car maker.

The brand new battery is about 5 occasions larger than people who Panasonic presently provides, that means the U.S. electrical automaker may be capable to decrease manufacturing prices and increase autos’ driving vary.