{"id":182584,"date":"2024-02-13T01:23:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T07:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/lg-chem-is-building-a-3b-ev-battery-cathode-factory-the-largest-in-the-us-update"},"modified":"2024-02-13T01:23:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T07:23:40","slug":"lg-chem-is-building-a-3b-ev-battery-cathode-factory-the-largest-in-the-us-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/lg-chem-is-building-a-3b-ev-battery-cathode-factory-the-largest-in-the-us-update","title":{"rendered":"LG Chem is building a $3B EV battery cathode factory \u2014 the largest in the US [Update]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lg-chem-is-building-a-3b-ev-battery-cathode-factory-the-largest-in-the-us-update2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LG Chem is building a $3 billion battery cathode factory for EVs in Tennessee \u2013 and it just inked a multi-billion dollar deal with GM.<\/p>\n<p>LG Chem has secured a long-term cathode material supply contract with General Motors (GM) worth $19 billion. The contract will commence in 2026 \u2013 when the factory is expected to come online \u2013 and run until 2035.<\/p>\n<p>Ultium Cells, a joint venture between LG Energy Solution and GM, will primarily use the NCMA (nickel, cobalt, manganese, aluminum) cathode materials made at LG\u2019s Tennessee factory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LG Chem is building a $3 billion battery cathode factory for EVs in Tennessee \u2013 and it just inked a multi-billion dollar deal with GM. LG Chem has secured a long-term cathode material supply contract with General Motors (GM) worth $19 billion. The contract will commence in 2026 \u2013 when the factory is expected to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}