Ensuring it has enough of these energy reservoirs to electrify its future U.S. product portfolio, on February 5, Toyota announced its brand spankin’ new manufacturing facility in North Carolina will begin shipping battery packs starting in April.

Toyota has given a date, or at least a month, for opening its $14 billion battery plant south of Greensboro: April. As part of the automaker’s third-quarter financial report given early Wednesday in Japan,

The company will hire more than 5,000 workers to make batteries for hybrid and electric cars as part of Toyota's approach to encouraging EV ownership in the United States.