SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – As concerns mount over a prolonged drop in electric vehicle demand and potential impacts of Donald Trump’s potential return to the White House, South Korea’s battery manufacturers are adapting their strategies amid growing industry turbulence marked by EV plant closures and bankruptcies worldwide. The country’s three major battery makers are [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Energy Solution Ltd. (LGES), South Korea’s leading battery maker, said Tuesday it is considering buying General Motors Co.’s stake in their joint venture battery plant in Michigan. “The company is considering acquiring the Ultium Cells JV 3 plant in Lansing, Michigan, to effectively operate its U.S. plants and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. (LGES) said Tuesday it has signed a deal with General Motors Co. to develop prismatic battery cells. Under the agreement, the companies will jointly develop prismatic battery cell technology and affiliated battery materials or “chemistries.” Once developed, the prismatic battery cells [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A second Trump administration could reshape the global automotive industry into an oligopolistic structure, with only a few dominant players surviving based on their hybrid vehicle technology, U.S. production capacity, and ability to benefit from sanctions against China, industry analysts say. Industry analysts expect traditional automakers to face a survival-of-the-fittest [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The fortunes of South Korea’s three mid-sized automakers—GM Korea, KG Mobility, and Renault Korea—continue to hinge on the success of individual vehicle launches, with the pattern showing no signs of abating in 2024. The trend began with KG Mobility (formerly SsangYong Motor) riding high on its Torres SUV in 2022, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung SDI Co., a South Korean battery maker, said Wednesday it has signed a formal deal with global automaker General Motors Co. to jointly build electric vehicle (EV) batteries in the U.S. state of Indiana. Under the deal, the two companies will invest a combined US$3.5 billion to build [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Wednesday it has signed a deal to acquire General Motors Co.’s plant in India to strengthen its presence in the rapidly growing automobile market. The acquisition of GM’s Talegaon plant in the western state of Maharash is aimed at preemptively preparing to meet a rising [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — General Motors Co. on Friday appointed a marketing expert from its Mexican operations as president and CEO of GM Korea. Hector Villarreal, vice president in charge of vehicle sales, service and marketing at GM Mexico, will replace Roberto Rempel on August 1. Rempel has decided to retire after serving [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung SDI Co. will build an electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing facility in Indiana in a joint venture with General Motors Co., the South Korean battery maker said Tuesday. The 2.65 million-square-meter plant is planned to go up in the New Carlisle area in the central U.S. state, according [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO Future M Co. said Friday it has agreed with U.S. General Motors Co. to build a facility to manufacture precursors, expanding the joint venture into the intermediate battery material. Ultium CAM, the joint venture between the two companies, will seek to complete the precursor plant by 2026, in [...]