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LG Energy Solution is a South Korean battery maker and major EV cell supplier, producing lithium-ion batteries through ventures like Ultium Cells with GM.
Hyundai Motor's market value has fallen about 89.8 trillion won since June 1 as the share price lost 58.2%, en.sedaily.com reported. Seventh place on the KOSPI now rests on a lead of about 7.4 trillion won over KB Financial.
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Posco Future M and L&F have signed about 8.9 trillion won of LFP cathode deals with Samsung SDI and SK On. China makes over 98% of LFP cathode. Of the deals, 8.7 trillion won start in 2027, and Korean costs are untested.
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LG Energy Solution expects third-quarter operating profit to rise 25.7% to 756 billion won, or 339.1 billion won without US tax credits. Analysts cited by Channel NewsAsia trace the beat to a one-off payment from an automaker that missed its purchase minimums, a sign of weak EV demand.
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LG Energy Solution will buy 240,000 tons of lithium concentrate from Canada's Elevra Lithium over four years, starting late this year. According to Seoul Economic Daily, the material can be refined for LFP storage cells or high-nickel car batteries, so LG can choose the market later.
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LG is flying five components from three affiliates on a startup's CubeSat aboard Nuri, the group's first joint test of its hardware in space. The parts are ground-proven commercial designs, so the flight tests whether existing LG products can serve satellites.
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Ultium Cells, GM's venture with LG Energy Solution, will finish retooling its Tennessee plant for LMR cells by 2028, aiming at LFP cost with 33% more density. The plan puts a date on a U.S.-made cell meant to sit between low-cost LFP and energy-dense high-nickel chemistries.
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GM and LG Energy Solution's Ultium Cells idled about 480 Lordstown battery workers indefinitely and told 850 more they won't be needed for months. Atlas Public Policy counts about three dollars of US EV and battery projects cancelled last year per new dollar announced.
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Removing a per-car subsidy left a finished battery plant in Ohio making cells nobody was buying, and the fastest cost its owners could cut was people. The capital had been committed years before the policy changed.
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Core CPI at 0.3% for August pushed futures to 86% from 69% on a September Fed hike, and Seoul's open took SK hynix down 5.24% to 1.717 million won. Philadelphia's semiconductor index had closed 1.81% higher on the 11th.
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The late-August order bans foreign bulk-power equipment on national security grounds and names battery storage specifically, which puts the cheap Chinese cells behind record US deployment inside a bill of materials that has to be signed before the Department of Energy explains the rules.
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The $69.99 UltraCharge Pro Slim leans on UL2056:2025, a 250-millisecond thermal cutoff and TSA carry-on guidance, which is a more useful sales argument than energy density once you work out what the premium buys per mAh.
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Robert Lee puts solid-state in phones about ten years before cars. A 12 GWh plant at Dunkirk and Chinese pilot lines due in 2027 are built on the opposite reading.
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Average first-half pay at SK hynix rose 23% to 144 million won across 36,042 people. Every hardware employer in Korea now recruits against a number it did not choose.
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LG will unveil a bipedal humanoid on Nvidia's Jetson Thor, Isaac GR00T and Halos in Q1 2027. The deployment that matters lands first: CLOiD on a washing machine line in Tennessee.
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LG will put wheeled CLOiD robots on a Tennessee washing machine line by the end of 2026. The Nvidia-powered bipedal model it announced this week does not even get a public unveiling until Q1 2027.
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