panasonic hopes to accelerate the supply of batteries to tesla.asonic is working to establish cost saving methods at the plant in western japan, before making any final investment decisions. >>> suzuki says it will withdraw from two international motorcycle racing competitions, as it shifts its focus to developing green technologies. suzuki announced on wednesday that this would be its last season competing in the world endurance championship. the president of suzuki express his deepest gratitude to the fans in support of the company's team over the years. the companies are looking to achieve net zero carbon emissions. this is considered the top motorcycle series. suzuki's participation goes back to 1960. did lose a shot at the title in 2020. it is how the circuits, including le monde, in france, and suzuka, and japan. >>> now, next up, have the steak a new dinner plate may have landed there via satellite, and a smart phone. farmers in southern japan are testing a system to keep them in top place amongst nations producers of delicious, wagon beef.

panasonic is a major supplier for tesla. the governor of kansas calls the factory genius because it would create as many as 4000 direct jobs other battery makers have announced plans to launch manufacturing this year. lg is teaming up with general motors and michigan. fiat chrysler's parent and samsung are planning a factory and indiana. watching those progressions . >>> apple could be the frontliner to land the nfl sunday ticket package. pocket news reports the apple ceo tim cook met with nfl commissioner judge or goodell during the sun valley media conference last week but disney, amazon, and directv reportedly have made offers and sources say the price tag could be $3 billion a year. apple is currently streaming friday night baseball games on apple tv plus and will start airing major league soccer games next year. we wait with baited breath for who gets the football games. >> i can't just wait for football to start. i love football season. thank you. >> let's get through summer. >>> this morning pg&e is under fire once ag

stuart: jeff flock with the cooling towers in the background, panasonic is building a new factory int came with it initially and if you are going to give some lucrative tax incentives panasonic says we will open a factory right there in topeka, kansas so there is one born market out there and kansas is happening into that. you know what the blue market is? stuart: lithium. susan: lithium is up 7 times at the start of this year so up 800% and you have this future demand for more electric car penetration you need the batteries that go with it, lithium needs to go into an topeka gets the panasonic giga factory. i thought was pretty well explained. stuart: there's another one for you. try this one for size. we are told we could soon be facing a shortage of copper. so what? >> this is a tie into the electric boom we talked about, the demand for electric batteries the going to ev cars, it requires to 1/2 times as much copper as a gas combustion engine and vehicle so if we are going to get to 50% of all car sales being electric by the end of this decade there is a boom for copper, not just

panasonic is going to build a factory in kansas to make tesla car batteries. to build and is expected to employ about 4000 workers. kansas officials lured panasonic there with $1.2 billion in incentives and tax credits. the exact location of that plant has not yet been revealed. samuel 9 39. the oakland city council expected to discuss the merger of mills college with northeastern university out of boston. the item on the agenda for the council's meeting is set to go on tuesday. the recommendation is to adopt a resolution celebrating the contributions of mills college to the city of oakland. it also calls for the california bureau private and post secondary education and the u. s. department of education to conduct an independent investigation. ended its circumstances of that merger. the 151 year old san francisco art institute is shutting its doors. that announcement comes as the university of san francisco backs out of an agreement to acquire the art institute university administrators say they had concerns over the art institutes , financial status, enrollm

. >>> panasonic is selecting texas for the multibillion dollar mega factory. when it is complete, the plant would produce electric vehicle batteries. the choice to build is coming five months after state lawmakers rushed to approve a tax package of $1 billion to attract the company and promise of thousands of jobs that come with it. >>> united airlines and pilots head back to the negotiations table for a new round of talks the airline pilots association said yesterday the agreement they made a deal to fell short of some pilots expectations. tentative agreement included a 14% pay raise within 18 months was revealed june 24th voting by rank and file pilots was set to close friday. the real question here, dom, and you see united airlines down 1% in extended trading. what does this do for other airlines to set the standard for their negotiations >> you see it is not having a good time. we will watch if this has another impact on the lagging airline trade. contessa, thank you. >>> at this hour, president biden with a bilateral meeting with israeli prime minister as

those products >> thomas, it's not the same business, exactly, but last week's announcement that panasonic is going to build this battery facility in kansas had a lot of people wondering whether or not the political invitation in the united states for production and capital now has a tailwind, where you got global giants starting to think seriously about expanding here do you think that's true >> i think part of this is more about, you know, we spent the better part of two decades swinging the pendulum to full globalization, and now you're seeing the pendulum come back a little bit it will always overshoot from the ideal point. it will probably go a little toor to regionalization. i think that's what you're seeing too much of supply chain security, sovereign security, economic security depending on having manufacturing and technology, you know, predominantly semiconductors but battery technology for the electrification of cars. i think what you're really seeing is getting some of that localization that we've lost over the last few decades back into the country >> thomas, why is this so har

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