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For those active in this field: The article seems to freely interchange "LG Electronics" (Consumer Electronics) with "LG Chem" (Battery and chemical compounds),
by rickdeckard 5y ago
For those active in this field: The article seems to freely interchange "LG Electronics" (Consumer Electronics) with "LG Chem" (Battery and chemical compounds), which I found weird as they are both different companies of LG Group.
In reality it seems the two LG companies will split the settlement of ~1.9bn USD, with LG Chem taking the larger part (~1.6bn USD) and LG Electronics the remainder.
Reason is that in the GM Contract, LG Chem supplied the battery cells and LG Electronics assembled them into battery modules (as it seems LG Chem wasn't offering such a service back then).
Overall this kind of company-split seems to be a thing of the past, as in 2020 the LG Group formed a new company called "LG Energy Solution", which provides battery cells and modules and is in progress to operate two battery plants in joint venture with GM [1]
[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/electric-vehicle-batteries-major-players-their-expansion-plans-2021-10-04/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/electric-vehicle-batterie...