Tesla battery supplier to build USD 1.2 billion EV battery plant in Indonesia
Sanjay · May 27, 2021 01:12 PM
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State-owned Indonesia Battery Corporation (IBC) and a consortium led by South Korea's LG Group (including LG Chem which supplies batteries to Shanghai-assembled Tesla Model 3s), will build a new electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in the country worth USD 1.2 billion, says Indonesia's investment minister, Bahlil Lahadalia.
With a capacity of 10 gigawatt hours (GWh) - 10 gigawatts equates to 10 billion watts of electric power - the plant will be built in the Kota Deltamas industrial area in Bekasi.
Batteries built in this plant will be used in Hyundai EVs, and Hyundai is building their first Indonesian factory nearby too.
Nikkei Asia reports that this 2.5-acre battery facility will employ 1,000 workers, and is part of a bigger USD 9.8 billion EV deal that LG and Indonesia inked last year.
While Lahadalia stopped short of a definite timeline, he mentioned that the factory will be built "in the near future".
Besides LG Chem, the South Korean conglomerate includes LG Energy Solution, LG International, as well as South Korean steelmaker POSCO and Chinese cobalt company, Huayou Holdings.
Meanwhile, IBC is made up of four Indonesian state-owned companies: mining holding company Mind ID and their nickel producer subsidiary Aneka Tambang, plus Pertamina and Perusahaan Listrik Negara, which deals in oil and gas and electricity respectively.
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