

“This announcement will mean at least 2,200 new jobs for the state of Ohio.”

“Today is a great day for Ohio!” DeWine said. “Shelby, Logan and Union counties, thank you for your support over the last four decades!” ”Next month we will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the production of the first automobiles in Ohio,” Nelson told the standing-room only crowd in the Atrium. It is expected that internal combustion engines would cease to be produced once that threshold is reached. Honda officials have announced plans to introduce 30 new electric vehicles by 2030 and plans to sell all zero-emission automobiles by 2040. The cases to hold the EV battery cells will be manufactured in Anna. The existing plants in Anna, East Liberty and Marysville will receive approximately $700 million to retool to construct electric vehicles and components for those vehicles. Their personal relationship helped land the original Honda plant at Marysville.įollowing the construction of the original plant, additional plants were constructed in East Liberty and Anna. Rhodes had developed a personal relationship with Honda founder Soichiro Honda. The Statehouse Atrium was the same location Honda executives had made their original announcement 45 years before.

Jon Husted, Ohio Senate President Matt Huffman, Ohio House Speaker Bob Cupp, Ohio Director of Development Lydia Mihalik, and JobsOhio President JP Nauseef, among others. The plant will be located near Interstate 71 in rural Fayette County, not far from Washington Court House and Jeffersonville.īob Nelson, Honda executive vice president, made the announcement at an invitation-only event held in the Atrium of the Statehouse in Columbus. Honda’s beliefs were to dream big, understand that you can make anything, and understand that relationships must be built on mutual trust,” Honda Executive Vice President Bob Nelson said.ĬOLUMBUS - Forty-five years to the day Honda announced they had chosen Ohio as the location for their first American manufacturing facility, they announced that they had again chosen Ohio as the location for their new EV battery plant.
