According to South Korea’s Ministry of Intellectual Property, the country’s all-solid-state battery patent applications grew at an average annual rate of 29.5% from 2015 to 2024, ranking second globally behind China’s 42.4%. The number of applications across major countries increased approximately 7.6-fold, from 340

According to South Korean media reports, LG Energy Solution batteries will be exclusively fitted in Bentley’s first all-electric SUV, the Torcal. The batteries will be used in vehicles for overseas markets as well as those for South Korea.
The Torcal will use a 113 kWh NCM (nickel-cobalt-manganese) lithium-ion batter

On October 8, 2026, LG Energy Solution announced that it had signed a multi-year binding offtake agreement with Elevra Lithium for spodumene concentrate. Under the terms of the agreement, Elevra Lithium will supply LG Energy Solution with 240,000 dry metric tonnes of spodumene concentrate over a four-year period, sta

On September 28, the Ohio Department of Development announced that Sebang Lithium Battery is establishing a subsidiary in Ohio and plans to open its first U.S. plant in Jeffersonville, creating 443 positions at full operation by the decade’s end.
Sebang Lithium Battery manufactures Li-ion battery packs for EVs, forkl

On September 30, LG Energy Solution announced that it has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with U.S.-based commercial EV startup indiGOtech to explore battery supply and technological collaboration.
Headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, indiGOtech specializes in electrifying commercial van pla

On September 28, Ultium Cells LLC, the JV between General Motors and LG Energy Solution, announced it will upgrade its battery cell manufacturing facility in Spring Hill, Tennessee, to produce lithium manganese rich (LMR) battery cells for future GM EVs.
Plant modifications in Spring Hill will begin later in 2026 and

On September 7, LG Energy Solution announced that it has secured a key technology to improve the stability of next-generation lithium manganese-rich (LMR) batteries through joint research with Seoul National University. The company identified factors contributing to gas generation and capacity degradation during LMR

On August 31, LG Energy Solution announced it has signed a multi-year binding offtake agreement with Smackover Lithium for battery-quality lithium carbonate to secure a fully integrated local supply chain from sourcing to production.
Under the contract, Smackover Lithium, a partnership between Standard Lithium Ltd. a

On August 18, LG Energy Solution announced the start of production at its all-new, USD 2 billion, 226-acre facility in Lansing, Michigan, which will build battery cells for both EVs and energy storage systems (ESS).
The Lansing facility, which currently employs about 900 team members, will eventually have 1,700 team

On August 17, the GM-LGES Ultium Cells battery plant in Warren, Ohio will resume production after a seven-month shutdown. Tom Gallagher, Ultium VP of operations noted on August 12 that a majority of workers will return bringing total employment there to around 1,400.
Production of EV batteries had been halted at the

LG Energy Solution (LGES) has filed a patent infringement complaint against China's EVE Energy with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), seeking to block imports of EVE's lithium-ion batteries into the United States. The complaint was submitted through Tulip Innovation, a patent licensing company that manag

On July 7, Ultium Cells Spring Hill announced it has officially begun production of LG Energy Solution’s JF2 LFP battery cells for energy storage systems (ESS), marking a significant step in the facility’s expansion into the energy storage market. 
LFP cells manufactured at Ultium Cells Spring Hill will be used by LG

Honda and LG Energy Solutions have converted the Ohio joint venture battery plant originally intended for EV battery production to manufacture energy storage system (ESS) batteries for AI data centers, according to a Nikkei Asia report.
Honda and LGES formed the joint venture in 2022 to build lithium-ion batteries fo

According to LG Energy Solution Ltd. of South Korea, the company's global patent applications and registered patents exceeded 100,000 and 59,000, respectively, as of May 2026. The company is the first battery manufacturer to surpass the 100,000-patent-application milestone. Key patented technologies successfully comm

On June 25, NextStar Energy announced the start of production on a new battery pack manufacturing line at its Windsor Battery Plant in Ontario, Canada. The expansion adds a third production stage to the site’s existing cell and module operations, enabling full vertical integration from battery cell to finished pack.

On June 7, NVIDIA and the LG Group announced they are building an AI factory to accelerate LG Group’s next wave of AI-driven businesses, spanning robotics, autonomous driving, data center technologies and GPU cloud services.
The AI factory will provide LG Group with accelerated computing infrastructure to train, simu

On May 29, Reuters reported that workers at the Ultium Cells plant in Warren, Ohio, jointly owned by GM and LG Energy Solution, are now being told they will begin to return ⁠to work in August. They have been out of work since January, when they were given a June return-to-work timeframe.
In an internal announcement t

Several South Korean media sources reported that LG Energy Solution Ltd., an electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing subsidiary of LG Chem Ltd., will sell the factory buildings and other assets of L-H Battery Company, its US JV with Honda Motor Co., Ltd., to Honda Development and Manufacturing of America, which i

South Korea’s secondary battery manufacturer, LG Energy Solution Ltd., has acquired a 1.7 percent stake in Easpring Finland New Materials Oy in Finland. Easpring Finland New Materials was established in 2024, with 70% owned by Beijing Easpring Material Technology and 30% by the Finnish state-owned company, the Finnis

On May 12, Ultium Cells, a joint venture between General Motors and LG Energy Solution, announced it is bringing only a few workers back to its idled EV battery plant in Warren, Ohio in May, leaving plans for recalling hundreds of laid-off workers uncertain.
In January, GM and LGES idled the facility for six months i