SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s leading carmaker, said Monday it is in the process of acquiring General Motors Co.’s car manufacturing facility in India. Hyundai Motor has signed a term sheet with GM to take over the U.S. carmaker’s Talegaon plant in Maharashtra, the company said in a statement. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — General Motors Co. said Sunday it has started the production of the Trax Crossover at its South Korean plant ahead of its local launch in the first quarter. GM plans to ramp up the strategic model’s production to meet the rising demand for the new vehicle in the United [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — GM Korea Co., the South Korean unit of General Motors Co., on Tuesday launched the GMC brand’s flagship pickup Sierra to strengthen its lineup and boost sales. The Sierra Denali is the GMC brand’s launch model in the Korean market and the full-size pickup is the only GMC Sierra [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Energy Solution Ltd. said Tuesday its joint venture with U.S. General Motors Co. has secured US$2.5 billion through a loan program approved by the U.S. government, funding that will help finance the construction of three electric vehicle battery plants in America. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) finalized [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Energy Solution Ltd.’s joint venture with U.S. General Motors Co. will invest an additional US$275 million for their electric vehicle battery plant under construction in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The additional investment by Ultium Cells LLC will help expand the facility’s output by more than 40 percent, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Youlchon Chemical Co., a South Korean producer of plastic films, said Wednesday it has signed an agreement to supply a key battery component used in electric vehicles to the joint venture company run by LG Energy Solution Ltd. and U.S. General Motors Co. for the next six years. The [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO Chemical Co. will supply a key electric vehicle (EV) battery component to General Motors Co. for three years starting 2023, in an additional US$10.8 billion deal expected to give a boost to the South Korean firm’s pivot to the battery materials sector. POSCO Chemical will supply high-nickel cathodes [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd. said Wednesday it has clinched a long-term supply agreement with General Motors Co. to provide the U.S. carmaker with key materials for electric vehicle (EV) battery cells. LG Chem, the country’s leading chemical firm, will supply more than 950,000 tons of cathode materials under the eight-year [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chemical maker POSCO Chemical Co. said Friday it is building a US$327 million cathode plant with General Motors Co. in the Canadian city of Quebec to supply the key electric vehicle battery component to the U.S. automaker. The two have signed a final agreement on setting up [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chemical maker POSCO Chemical Co. said Tuesday it will build a joint cathode venture with U.S. auto giant General Motors Co. in Canada to supply the key material to the U.S. automaker’s electric vehicles. The US$400 million cathode materials JV in Quebec, Canada, will supply the materials [...]