LG Energy Solution has started production at a 226-acre battery plant in Lansing, Michigan, that builds large-format cells for both energy storage systems (ESS) and electric vehicles. LG says the plant will have a capacity of 35 GWh per year at full-scale production.
The Lansing plant makes lithium-iron phosphate (LFP) cells for stationary storage. LG Energy Solution Vertech, the company’s US energy storage division, integrates these into complete systems for utility and grid-scale storage and for commercial and industrial applications. DTE Energy will be among the utilities using Lansing-built cells in future storage projects.
Lansing will also produce nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) cells for Toyota, and LG Energy Solution describes those cells as more energy-dense. They will power battery-electric vehicles including the 2027 Toyota Highlander EV, which Toyota will assemble at its manufacturing in Georgetown, Kentucky.
LFP cells tolerate more charge cycles and contain no nickel or cobalt, and mass and volume matter less on a storage site than in a vehicle. NMC carries more energy per kilogram, which is the constraint that matters in a vehicle pack.
LG Energy Solution says the cells built in Lansing will help customers meet US domestic content requirements and that the Toyota cells will strengthen the automaker’s US supply chain for its next-generation vehicles.
LG Energy Solution plans to deploy more than 50 GWh of LFP cell-making capacity in North America by the end of 2026, at three wholly owned plants (Holland and Lansing in Michigan and NextStar Energy in Windsor, Ontario) and two joint venture facilities (L-H Battery Company in Jeffersonville, Ohio and Ultium Cells 2 in Spring Hill, Tennessee). By then, the company expects 80% of its global ESS capacity to be located in North America.
Source: LG Energy Solution
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