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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

South Korea’s presidential office revealed that President Yoon Suk-Yeol and Elon Musk conversed about Tesla in a video call on Wednesday, November 23. During the video call, Elon Musk reportedly told President Yoon that he considered South Korea one of the top candidates for a Tesla factory in Asia, reported Reuters.

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AUGUST 2, 2023

Loop Energy announced that its value-added distributor in South Korea—NGVI Inc.—secured —secured a supply contract for a hydrogen electric bus project with a second municipality in the country, this time with the county of Ulju. This marks Loop Energy’s second design win in South Korea in less than one year.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) announced an investment into battery pack production at its excavator plant in Changwon, South Korea. The Changwon plant in South Korea specializes in the production of excavators and is the biggest excavator production site in Volvo CE. With the SEK 80-million (around $7.8-million)

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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 Ghent plant will provide important learnings to other manufacturing sites in terms of process optimisation and efficiency.

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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. SKIET plans to supply separators produced at its Changzhou factory in China to Sunwoda.

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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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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The initiation tournament incorporated a supply rite for the inaugural eBus9 held in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. – Commercial – The pinnacle of BYD’s Korean section expressed that the corporate plans in order 120 BYD eBus9 devices in South Korea this occasion.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

an automotive manufacturer headquartered in South Korea, to manufacture Faraday Future’s second electric vehicle, the FF 81, with start of production scheduled for 2024. Located near Seoul, South Korea, Myoung Shin is a parts supplier and automotive manufacturer for numerous first tier OEMs.

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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. Tesla South Korea. Tesla still has to iron out a few details regarding Giga Mexico.

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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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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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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. The announcement follows the grand opening of SK Signet’s EV charging manufacturing facility in Plano, Texas.

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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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DECEMBER 17, 2021

The rapid growth of the hybrid and electric vehicle segment could potentially cause demand for electrical steel to outpace supply from 2025, according to a new report by a team of analysts from the Automotive Supply Chain and Technology team at IHS Markit. Concentrated manufacturing footprint.

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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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JULY 9, 2022

South-Korea-based POSCO has acquired silicon anode startup Tera Technos for 47.8 billion won (US$37 million), as the steelmaker enlarges its position within the Li-ion battery supply chain. POSCO intends to invest $20 billion into the lithium-ion supply chain between now and 2030. Earlier post.)

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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. SK Innovation has applied high energy density ternary materials to lithium-ion batteries for mass production.

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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 LG Chem applied this technology for the first time to its fourth cathode manufacturing site in Cheongju, South Korea with much success.

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JANUARY 9, 2021

On 29 December 2020, Sichuan Yahua Industrial Group announced thatits subsidiary, Yahua Lithium, had signed a five-year supply agreement with Tesla. The total value of the contract is reported to be US$630-880 million, with Yahua Lithium to provide battery-grade lithium hydroxide to Tesla from 2021 to 2025.

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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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JANUARY 16, 2023

The MOU was signed by LGES and three subsidiaries under Hanwha Group—Hanwha Solutions, owner of clean energy manufacturer Qcells, Hanwha Corporation/Momentum and Hanwha Aerospace. which offers customers a streamlined approach to energy storage system integration and a secure battery supply chain through LGES.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

Nexeon has secured a site for its first commercial volume silicon anode material plant in Gunsan, South Korea, utilizing existing available land adjacent to materials company OCI ’s facilities. Through this contract, OCI will supply monosilane to Nexeon from 2025. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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JULY 25, 2023

Group14 Technologies, a manufacturer and supplier of advanced silicon battery technology, has acquired advanced silicon material company Schmid Silicon Technology Holding GmbH (Schmid Silicon), the most technologically advanced silane producer in Europe.

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JUNE 13, 2021

—which intends to become a silicon anode materials supplier to the EV industry— entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with South Korean silicon powder manufacturer, Korea Metal Silicon Co., Korea Metal Silicon Co.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

LG Energy Solution (LGES)—the company’s dedicated cell subsidiary—plans to use 100% renewable energy in all its battery manufacturing plants worldwide by 2025. LGES stated in an ESG Report 2021 that it is working on converting all its manufacturing sites to RE100, including those located in South Korea, North America, Europe, China, etc.

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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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AUGUST 23, 2021

COVID-19 Still Impacting Supply Chain. Unlike the capacity constraints in wafer fabs, which was impacting mainly automotive MCUs, assembly capacity constraints impact all semiconductor types including sensors, power supplies and discretes. Output lost to disruption to the semiconductor supply chain is estimated to have reached 1.44

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JUNE 23, 2021

Lithium-ion battery manufacturing has been dominated by East Asia, with Japan, China, and South Korea playing a significant role. US and European countries are now competing, shifting the added values away from East Asia and building battery manufacturing close to the application market.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

have formed a 50/50 joint venture partnership to manufacture MidRange engines in Korea extending from 150 hp to 300 hp (112-224 kW) output for application in a wide range of Hyundai construction and industrial equipment. The launch of the Hyundai Cummins Engine Company (HCEC) joint venture took place in Ulsan, Korea. liter to 8.9-liter

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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. Stellantis N.V.

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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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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Hyundai Motor Company and Iveco Group have signed a supply agreement of an Iveco-badged all-electric light commercial vehicle for Europe, based on Hyundai’s Global eLCV platform. The new vehicle will join Iveco Group’s electric light commercial vehicle lineup, enhancing the Group’s LCV portfolio alongside the iconic Iveco Daily.

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JUNE 29, 2021

Comparatively, EV manufacturing has increased at a faster rate in China, which made up 44% of global EVs manufactured through 2020, up from 36% in 2017. Similarly, European manufacturing accounted for 25% of global EVs through 2020, up from 23% in 2017. million (or about 10%) are slated to be manufactured in US.

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JANUARY 31, 2022

LGES is the second largest battery maker in the world with over 20% market share1 and supplies its products to leading global Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). LGES is currently manufacturing lithium-ion batteries in Poland, US, China, and South Korea, and is looking at expanding its production capacity.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Electric vehicle battery supplier LG Energy Solution (LGES), which supplies batteries to electric vehicle makers such as Tesla Inc. “This binding supply agreement represents an important milestone for our company’s entry into a rapidly growing domestic lithium market. The Teslarati team would appreciate hearing from you.

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JUNE 27, 2019

Saudi Aramco and its affiliates signed 12 agreements with major South Korean companies to reinforce relationships with South Korea, expand international operations, and support the region’s energy security with the expansion of Arabian crude oil supply to Asian markets. Earlier post.). Hyundai Oilbank.

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