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MARCH 13, 2024

Hyundai is an independent South Korean automotive manufacturer. As a Hyundai electric vehicle manufacturer, it leverages its expertise and economies of scale from producing conventional vehicles.

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MARCH 5, 2020

Volvo Cars formally inaugurated a new battery assembly line at its Belgian manufacturing plant in Ghent, where it will start building its first fully electric car, the XC40 Recharge P8, later this year. The XC40 Recharge P8 is the first of a family of fully electric Volvos. Volvo XC40 Recharge powertrain.

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MAY 19, 2022

billion to produce electric vehicles at a new factory in South Korea. Hyundai Motor Group, which includes Kia, Hyundai Motor, and Genesis, said the factory will build 150,000 vehicles every year, supplying Hyundai and Kia with enough volume to supply customers with EVs. million units by 2030. The planned 1.44

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DECEMBER 18, 2022

The EV manufacturer has already established a good business relationship with the state government of Nuevo Leon. ” Canada has the minerals and supplies automakers need to manufacture electric vehicles and EV batteries. However, Jokowi emphasized his desire to build fully electric vehicles in the country.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2022

The Electrified GV70 is the third electric vehicle added to the Genesis lineup; its global premier was at Auto Guangzhou 2021. Production of the Electrified GV70 is expected to start this December at the brand’s Montgomery, Alabama manufacturing facility. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 6, 2023

SK Signet celebrated the grand opening of its EV charger manufacturing facility in Plano. This facility will expand US-based manufacturing and R&D for electric vehicle charging equipment to support the growth of America’s EV infrastructure. SK Signet is based in South Korea with US headquarters in McLean, Virginia.

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JANUARY 3, 2022

South Korea-based steelmaker POSCO will invest US$830 million in a lithium hydroxide plant in Argentina. A pilot plant was manufactured in South Korea in 2017 with a capacity of 2,500 tons / year of lithium. The plant will be constructed by the first half of 2024.

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JULY 9, 2023

—POSCO Group CEO Jeong-woo Choi The new lithium factory is anticipated to have an annual production capacity of 25,000 tons of lithium hydroxide—sufficient for manufacturing approximately 600,000 electric vehicles. The subsequent production of lithium hydroxide will take place in South Korea.

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JULY 25, 2023

JR ES develops and manufactures high-performance lithium-ion battery electrodes with a novel electrode and battery cell foundry model, enabling lithium-ion cell manufacturers and other partners to produce tailor-made electrodes and cell solutions.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

billion) investment in its domestic battery production base in Seosan, South Korea, paving the way for the completion of a core infrastructure that will fortify Korea’s domestic electric vehicle battery industry. SK On will make a KRW 1.5-trillion trillion (US$1.1-billion) After establishing a 200 MWh (0.2

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

South Korea-based SK Innovation, a developer of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, will invest $1.67 billion to build a new electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing plant in Georgia. Construction will occur in two phases, beginning in early 2019.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Faraday Future's second EV will be manufactured by South Korean auto-parts supplier Myoung Shin, Faraday announced Wednesday in a press release. This new model, the Faraday Future FF 81, will be a "luxury mass-market electric vehicle" aimed at a.

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JUNE 9, 2021

South Korea-based EnerTech International is a leader in delivering lithium-ion cells using state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities to produce high-performance, large format batteries. Pre-production batteries have been built and tested using EnerTech’s existing lithium-ion battery manufacturing equipment.

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JULY 25, 2023

a storage solution and battery materials company based in South Korea. Yulho is currently building a high-purity black mass facility with an annual capacity of 8,000 metric tonnes, the largest in South Korea, and expects to commence production later this year, with plans to expand to 24,000 tonnes of capacity in the future.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

South Korea-based SK On (SKO), a global EV battery manufacturer, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Australia’s Global Lithium Resources to explore future business opportunities together in regard to stable supply of lithium. Incorporated in 2018, Global Lithium was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange last year.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The full-fledged facility, after installing the maximum number of mass-production lines through expansion, will have the capacity to manufacture 2,000 tons of its proprietary silicon anode materials NBMSiDE per year. The technology effectively scatters the stress from the Si anode, compensating the mechanical stress during long-term cycling.

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JULY 20, 2021

Group14 Technologies, a global provider of silicon-carbon composite materials for lithium-ion markets, and SK materials, one of the world’s top manufacturers of special gases and industrial gases, are forming a joint venture to build a factory for lithium-silicon battery materials in South Korea.

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MARCH 23, 2022

LGES’ expansion will quintuple the plant’s capacity to help produce battery components into the future as Michigan’s electric vehicle industry grows. The Holland investment will fall under the LGES entity, which recently completed a record-breaking IPO in South Korea. LG Energy Solution (LGES) is investing $1.7

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

LG Chem today has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the state of Tennessee to establish a new cathode manufacturing facility in Clarksville with an investment of US$3.2 million pure electric vehicles with a range of 310 miles (500 km) per charge.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2023

The Electrified GV70 is the third electric vehicle from Genesis following the launch of the GV60 SUV and the Electrified G80 executive sedan last year. It is the first Genesis model to be assembled in the United States at the brand’s Montgomery, Alabama manufacturing facility. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Qorvo, a global provider of connectivity and power solutions, and SK Siltron CSS, a semiconductor wafer manufacturer, finalized a multi-year supply agreement for silicon carbide (SiC) bare and epitaxial wafers.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

While the lithium-ion battery is dominant in battery-electric vehicles, NiMH batteries are still the most common in full hybrid vehicles (HEVs), according to a new report—“ Full Hybrid Electric Vehicle Markets 2021-2041 ”—from IDTechEx.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Tesla, LG Energy, and Samsung are among a group of large battery manufacturers that have been invited to a recruitment summit by India, which wants to encourage cell production efforts to enter its market to develop a domestic supply chain for clean transportation and electric vehicles. The country is prepared to offer $2.4

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JULY 18, 2023

a global manufacturer of electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions, has entered into a long-term EV charger supply agreement with Francis Energy, owner of the fourth-largest electric vehicle fast-charging network in the US. SK Signet is based in South Korea with US headquarters in McLean, Virginia.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Engineers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, have built a new high-speed motor which has the potential to increase the range of electric vehicles. One of the trends for electric vehicles is for them to have motors which rotate at higher speeds. —Dr Chu. Image from Dr Guoyo Chu.

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MAY 3, 2023

SK IE Technology (SKIET) signed an MOU with Sunwoda , the 9 th largest battery manufacturer in terms of global market share (according to SNE Research in 2022), to strengthen cooperation in supplying battery separators. This marks SKIET’s first large-scale supply of EV battery separators to a Chinese EV battery manufacturer.

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JUNE 29, 2021

The United States is the third-largest electric vehicle (EV) producer behind China and Europe; a new study from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) finds that the gap has widened. Cumulative electric vehicle sales and production from 2010 through 2020, in major regions (based on EV-Volumes, 2021).

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APRIL 16, 2013

General Motors has begun manufacturing the electric motor for the Spark EV at its Baltimore Operations plant in White Marsh, Md. The Spark EV will be sold in California and Oregon this summer and sales will expand to Canada, Europe and South Korea later. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 24, 2022

and LG Energy Solution (LGES) have executed binding, definitive agreements to establish the first large-scale, domestic, electric-vehicle battery manufacturing facility in Canada. billion USD) to establish operations, which will include an all-new battery manufacturing plant located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

the Japan-based parent company of the specialty chemicals manufacturer Toyo Ink Group, announced the official opening of a new wholly-owned manufacturing subsidiary, Toyo Ink Hungary LLC, in Ujhartyan in Pest County, Hungary. Toyo Ink SC Holdings Co.,

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JANUARY 8, 2021

Roskill’s analysis suggests that by 2025, Europe will still have to import 56% of the cathode materials used for Li-ion battery production from countries like China and South Korea. However, despite Europe’s fast-expanding capacity of Li-ion battery production, its cathode materials production capacity is struggling to keep up.

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MARCH 15, 2024

On Thursday, March 14, the South Korean battery supplier reported that it invested over 1 trillion won ($760 million) in research and development (R&D) last year. LGES emphasized that 2023 was the first time it had invested over 1 trillion won in R&D despite “faltering” demand for electric vehicles. trillion won ($8.1

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JANUARY 31, 2023

South Korea-based POSCO Chemical signed a contract to supply Samsung SDI with high-nickel NCA cathode materials for electric vehicle batteries for 10 years from this year to 2032. This 40-trillion won ($32.6-billion) billion) contract is the largest and longest-term order since the creation of POSCO Chemical.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

LG Energy Solution, a South Korean battery manufacturer and one of American EV maker Tesla’s suppliers, noted on Monday that it would be investing KRW 4 trillion (about $3.1 billion) in a South Korea-based facility that produces batteries for electric vehicles and other products.

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Electric Vehicles India

JULY 27, 2021

Anand Group an Auto component maker has partnered with South Korea’s Mando Corporation to cater to the growth of the electric vehicles segment in India. Anand Group partners South Korea’s Mando Corporation. It plans for a manufacturing facility in Rajasthan which will employ 350 to 450 people.

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JANUARY 31, 2022

Vulcan Energy Resources, the company developing Zero Carbon Lithium projects to produce both renewable geothermal energy and lithium hydroxide for electric vehicles from the same deep brine source in the Upper Rhine Valley, Germany, has signed a binding lithium hydroxide offtake agreement with LG Energy Solution (LGES).

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NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Japan, South Korea, France, Germany, and the EU have all requested exemptions from the Biden Administration’s “location of assembly” requirement for electric vehicle subsidies. Hence, an EV produced by Hyundai in South Korea or BMW in Germany, for instance, would not be given an incentive.

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