Sunlight deploys a $40 million investment to expand North Carolina operations
Sunlight deploys a $40 million investment to expand North Carolina operations

Sunlight deploys a $40 million investment to expand North Carolina operations

The new facility will be equipped with five lithium-ion battery assembly lines.
RE+D magazine
13.10.2022

Sunlight Group continues global expansion with new lithium battery facility in North Carolina.

Sunlight Batteries USA, a technology company specializing in innovative industrial mobility and energy storage systems, announces its expansion in the U.S. market with a second location in Mebane, Alamance County, North Carolina. The $40 million investment will create a new and state-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries and battery charging solutions hub to meet growing demand in the Americas market. 

The new facility will be equipped with five lithium-ion battery assembly lines, including a fully automated one and one dedicated to ESS, whose immediate collective capacity reaches 1GWh and 3GWh gradually until 2026.

Sunlight Batteries USA is a subsidiary of the Sunlight Group, a world-leading technology company headquartered in Athens, Greece. Sunlight’s global operations are an integrated network of innovation, manufacturing, assembly, and service hubs that develop next-generation energy storage solutions for off-road applications, serving the industrial mobility, leisure mobility and ESS sectors. 

The newly-announced $40 million Mebane facility in North Carolina is part of a $560 million global expansion strategy with $150 million dedicated to growing the innovator’s tech, production, and service presence in the U.S. market.