After a search across about a dozen states over the course of a year, Utah-based startup American Battery Factory picked Arizona for its first U.S. facility and headquarters this year.
ABF, which was incubated from Lion Energy in 2021, is planning to build a $1.2 billion lithium-iron phosphate battery manufacturing plant that will total 2 million square feet in the Tucson metro.
The new factory, expected to have a $3 billion economic impact to the state, will create an initial 300 jobs for three…
