WASHINGTON—Australia’s
Tritium DCFC Ltd.
is planning to break ground this year on a Tennessee factory to build electric-vehicle charging stations, a development touted by the White House on Tuesday as part of a wave of new private-sector spending spurred by President Biden’s infrastructure policy.
Tritium said it expects to build six production lines to produce 30,000 of its fast chargers a year, creating more than 500 jobs at a site in Lebanon, east of Nashville.
The factory announcement is one in a series of developments that the White House said is taking place to support the build-out of a national network of charging stations for electric vehicles.
“This is great news for workers across the country, for the economy and frankly for the planet,” President Biden said at a news…
