Electronics company Toshiba Corporation said it will expand its manufacturing plant in Houston, Texas, to make drive motors for electrified vehicles.The company said the project would mean setting up its initial automotive propulsion systems production facility outside its native Japan.
At present, it produces systems in Mie Prefecture on Japan’s Honsh? island.
The expansion in Houston comes behind the company won a contract to supply propulsion systems for the Ford Motor Company.
From 2012, Toshiba will make propulsion motors in Houston for hybrid electric vehicles, plug-in electric vehicles and electric vehicles, it said yesterday.
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