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AUGUST 8, 2024

On Monday, July 12, 2024, South Korea’s environment ministry will hold an emergency meeting to discuss electric vehicle (EV) fire safety concerns after a blaze in an underground parking garage. South Korea’s land and industry ministries will attend the meeting next week.

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MARCH 26, 2023

SK On will partner with Korea’s largest cathode material company EcoPro, and Chinese battery materials producer GEM to build a battery core material production facility in Saemangeum, South Korea. The three companies together will spend up on 1.21

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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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JULY 9, 2023

POSCO Holdings recently began construction at the Yulchon 1 st Industrial Complex in Jeollanam-do (South Jeolla Province, S. Korea) of the country’s first lithium hydroxide plant, which will produce secondary battery materials using lithium produced from brine in Argentina. POSCO Group’s lithium brine demo plant in Argentina.

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MARCH 4, 2021

by Lewis Black, CEO of Almonty Industries. All car manufacturers seem to be following in the same footsteps as Tesla. and global economies with businesses and manufacturers having to close doors and furlough employees, the global trade markets plummeted to an 11-year low of 41.5% What’s more, U.S. government. Currently, the U.S.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

Renault Group and Geely Holding Group, China’s largest privately-owned automotive group, announced an MoU framework agreement to create a cooperation focused on China and South Korea as initial key core markets. The cooperation will allow Renault Group and Geely Holding to share resources and technologies.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In October, Doosan and Ceres announced a strategic collaboration which includes the building of an initial 50MW manufacturing facility for the manufacture under licence of Ceres’ fuel cell stacks in South Korea. Marine fuel cells can contribute to compliance with greenhouse gas emissions regulations in the industry.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

LG Chem will start replacing fossil feedstock commonly used in the manufacturing of polymers and chemicals with Neste Renewable Hydrocarbons in the upcoming months. Photo: Panoramic view of LG Chem’s petrochemical complex in Yeosu, South Korea.

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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. Canada-based NEO Battery Materials Ltd.—which

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MAY 4, 2022

Hankuk Carbon Co Ltd, a manufacturer of advanced composite materials, has formed a strategic joint-partnership with Dymag, a manufacturer of carbon composite wheels, to enable the mass production of high-performance carbon composite wheels for the world’s leading automotive OEMs.

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JULY 12, 2013

Describing its product goals and tracking progress toward its 2020 manufacturing priorities in its 2012 Sustainability Report , General Motors reaffirmed its commitment to further reduce the energy used and the environmental impacts of building and operating an automobile. Manufacturing energy use and emissions. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 12, 2024

South Korea’s environment ministry recently held an emergency meeting to discuss EV fire safety concerns after an electric Mercedez-Benz caught fire in an underground parking garage. Land and industry ministries attended the meeting. The blaze has fueled fears about fire safety and electric vehicles.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

LOTTE Chemical announced a joint venture with LOTTE Aluminium to build a manufacturing facility in Elizabethtown, Kentucky to produce 36,000 tons of cathode foil, a type of ultra-thin aluminum foil that is a core material used in EV batteries. Cathode foil is one of the four major components of lithium-ion batteries.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

With the final site approval, NEO has now additionally doubled the initial target annual silicon anode production capacity to 240 tons on the same mass-production lines and has consequently renamed the semi-commercial plant into a commercial-scale plant facility to accommodate for industry capacity standards.

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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 million; and.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport in South Korea has announced that EV registrations in the country have jumped by 72.7% South Korea has not seen the EV boom of the Chinese car market , more closely resembling the Japanese market, where electric vehicles have yet to catch on. year over year.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

FREYR Battery has awarded a strategic alliance frame agreement to South Korea-based Hana Technology. Hana Technology develops precision automation solutions for battery facilities and other industrial operations. We selected Hana Technology due to their proven track record with major Korean battery manufacturers.

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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 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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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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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 10, 2025

Hyundai Motor Group’s Executive Chair Chung Euisun received a medal from the Czech Republic (aka Czechia) for fostering bilateral relations between South Korea and the European nation. The legacy car maker’s investments have also enabled South Korea and the Czech Republic to exchange technology.

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JULY 20, 2022

The agreement will involve the joint development of green hydrogen and its derivatives such as green ammonia, to decarbonize POSCO Group’s power generation and its steel manufacturing processes, along serving other Korean clients of POSCO Group. million tonnes of green ammonia per year for the purposes of decarbonizing industries.

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MAY 19, 2022

billion to produce electric vehicles at a new factory in South Korea. The factory ultimately would increase annual EV production in South Korea to 1.44 The factory will be on Kia’s Hwaseong manufacturing campus, according to the automaker’s own press release on the subject. million units by 2030.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

The governor made the announcement during her three-day investment mission to South Korea. The governor and LG Chem CEO Peter Kim also discussed the potential for bringing other key cell components currently made by LG Chem in South Korea to Michigan. million to support its Michigan operations.

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MARCH 9, 2025

Developed by industry partners including Qualcomm and Ericsson and standardized by the mobile standards consortium 3GPP in 2022 , RedCap was designed in part to meet the needs of industrial and manufacturing environments. We will continue to accelerate its commercialization.

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DECEMBER 18, 2022

The EV manufacturer has already established a good business relationship with the state government of Nuevo Leon. In September, Canada’s Minister of Industry Francois-Philippe Champagne stated that Tesla did discuss the possibility of building a factory in Canada. Tesla South Korea. Tesla Indonesia.

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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. Korea National Oil Corporation. Daelim Industrial.

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JUNE 19, 2012

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the world’s biggest shipbuilder and a leading marine engine manufacturer, has begun exporting the gas engine Hyundai HiMSEN H35/40GV after completing test runs. The new gas engine runs on liquefied natural gas rather than heavy crude oil and has a maximum power output of 13,000 bhp (9,694 kW).

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Li-ion battery joint venture partners Bosch and Samsung SDI are disbanding their South Korea-based SB LiMotive JV. The establishment of a manufacturing facility in Europe is a further important component of Bosch strategy. The agreement is subject to the approval of the antitrust authorities.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

By 2013, SB LiMotive will have an annual manufacturing capacity that is sufficient to produce batteries for some 50,000 electric vehicles; by 2015 capacity will be sufficient to produce batteries for more than 180,000 EVs. It is in close dialog and also working on research projects with other manufacturers, the company says.

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MARCH 25, 2021

The index—now in its tenth year—facilitates a comparison of competitive positions of the relevant automotive nations (the US, Germany, China, France, Italy, Japan and South Korea) in the field of e-mobility, based on an objective assessment of those countries in three key areas: technology, market and industry.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Bloom Electrolyzer relies on the same, commercially proven solid oxide technology platform used to produce electricity, so streamlining existing manufacturing for higher volume electrolyzer output allows Bloom to best meet the needs of the market. to decarbonize industrial and agricultural sectors.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

World’s biggest green hydrogen project developers and partners come together to launch Green Hydrogen Catapult initiative New initiative aims to drive down costs to below $2 per kilogram, to transform energy across most carbon intensive industries, accelerating race to zero emissions Founding partners include.

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MAY 15, 2019

CATL of China and LG Chem of South Korea have long and successful track records supplying lithium-ion batteries to the global automotive industry. Volvo Cars’ first battery assembly line is currently under construction at its manufacturing plant in Ghent, Belgium. —Håkan Samuelsson, president and CEO of Volvo Cars.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2022

China currently hosts 75% of all battery cell manufacturing capacity and 90% of anode and electrolyte production. This year, the changes in the overall rankings were mostly driven by the greater access to several key raw materials and manufacturing capacities domestically.

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AUGUST 15, 2011

We are investing heavily in Brazil to manufacture more of the products and technologies National Oilwell Varco provides to our oil and gas customers, and to service the rapidly growing installed base of NOV drilling equipment in the region.

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