Foxconn Begins Work On New Battery Gigafactory In Taiwan As It Aims To Emerge As Major EV Player Foxconn, which is the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer, broke ground on its first battery cell plant on Wednesday (Jun 15), as it moves to deepen its presence in the global electric vehicle (EV) supply chain. Foxconn will invest over $200 million in building a battery cell center in in the southern port city of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The battery cell center — which would house research and development, as well as production — would be in the city’s Ho Fa Industrial Park...