General Motors and Samsung SDI have selected New Carlisle, Ind., as the site of a new electric-vehicle battery-cell plant.

The companies announced in April the joint venture to build the more than $3 billion factory without specifying the location.

The plant will create 1,700 manufacturing jobs, Gov. Eric Holcomb said in a statement Tuesday.

The project is GM’s fourth joint venture battery-cell factory. It has announced three others with South Korea’s LG Energy Solution. The 900-worker, more than $2.3 billion Ultium Cells factory in Lordstown has been in production since August, while other Ultium Cells plants in Spring Hill, Tenn., and Lansing, Mich., are in the works.

Workers at the Lordstown plant in December voted to unionize under the United Auto Workers, making them the first to decide union representation at a battery plant. The National Labor Relations Board oversaw a vote that tallied 710 to 16.

The new Indiana plant will house production lines to build nickel-rich prismatic and cylindrical cells and is expected to help significantly increase the accessibility and affordability of electric vehicles. The facility will have more than 30 GWh of capacity once finished.

GM has five plants in Indiana with more than 5,700 employees. It has stated a goal to sell only electric vehicles by 2035.

Construction on the new plant is expected to start within the next year, supporting more than 1,000 jobs during the build. The companies plan to start production in New Carlisle in 2026.