SEOUL: South Korea’s LG Chem plans to invest about US$1.77 billion to build its second electric car battery plant in China to meet growing demand, a company spokesman said on Wednesday.
The investment will be made by 2023 to increase its total output capacity to 32 gigawatt hours per year, or batteries for around 500,000 electric vehicles, the company spokesman said.
LG will break ground on the new factory in October and expects to begin production in October 2019.
It plans to boost capacity by 2023 at the factory, which like its current plant will be built in Nanjing.