By David Shepardson

WASHINGTON, July 25 (Reuters) – The U.S. Energy Department on Monday intends to declare it plans to credit a cooperative endeavor of General Motors Co GM.N and LG Energy Solution 373220.KS $2.5 billion to assist with funding development of new lithium-particle battery cell producing offices, authorities told Reuters.

The contingent responsibility for the credit to Ultium Cells LLC for offices in Ohio, Tennessee, and Michigan is supposed to shut before long and comes from the public authority’s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing advance program, which has not supported another credit beginning around 2010.

The program recently gave advances to Tesla Inc TSLA.O, Ford Motor F.N and Nissan 7201.T.

This would be the Energy Department’s most memorable credit for a battery cell fabricating project under the vehicle program.

President Joe Biden has laid out an objective of half of U.S. auto creation by 2030 being electric or module electric mixture vehicles.

“We must have vehicle fabricating limit yet in addition battery producing limit,” said Jigar Shah, who coordinates the Energy Department credit program office, in a Reuters interview. “This venture gives one of the most up to date augmentations to battery producing scale in this country.”

Ultium said in an explanation the “offices will make in excess of 5,000 new cutting edge positions in the United States. We are thankful for the thought and anticipate working with the Department of Energy on following stages.”