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

On May 6, SNE Research announced monthly power battery data for global electric vehicles (BEV, PHEV, HEV) sold in March 2026.
  
For January to March, the global battery installation increased 9.1% to 244.6 GWh.
By national origin among top 10 suppliers, Chinese manufacturers accounted for 71.4% of sales, followed by

At an industry event on April 14, Hyundai CEO José Muñoz said that the Hyundai-LG Energy Solution joint venture plant that was raided by U.S. immigration agents in 2025 will be ready to open later this month. 
The HL-GA Battery Company plant plans to supply batteries for EVs built at Hyundai’s Metaplant in Georgia, f

On April 7, SNE Research announced monthly power battery data for global electric vehicles (BEV, PHEV, HEV) sold in February 2026.
For January to February, the global battery installation increased 4.4% to 134.9 GWh.   
By national origin among top 10 suppliers, Chinese manufacturers accounted for 69.7% of sales, fol

LG Energy Solution Ltd., an electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing subsidiary of LG Chem Ltd., announced that it has joined SDVerse, becoming the first battery company to participate, underscoring the company’s leadership as it expands beyond battery manufacturing into the software that power next-gen vehicles.

Ultium Cells LLC will rehire about 700 workers who were temporarily laid off in January at its Spring Hill, Tennessee, plant to start production of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cells, for grid and data center customers in April, according to Tom Gallagher, vice president of operations for Ultium Cells.
The plant, whi

The U.S. Department of the Interior has confirmed Tesla as the customer behind a USD 4.3 billion battery supply agreement that LG Energy Solution disclosed in July 2025 without naming the party involved. The contract is set to begin on August 1, 2027, and run through July 31, 2030. Provisions within the agreement all