LG Chem
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Tesla’s value drops $50bn as Musk’s cheaper battery three years away
- Transport & Tourism
- September 23, 2020, 09:57
Investors slashed $50 billion (€42.75 billion) from Tesla’s market value on Tuesday despite chief executive Elon Musk’s promise to cut electric vehicl(...)

Indian police file complaint against Korean firm after gas leak kills 11
- Asia-Pacific
- May 8, 2020, 10:34
Indian police have filed a complaint against an LG Chem subsidiary over a toxic gas leak at its chemical plant in the south of the country that killed(...)

Battery bottleneck stalls electric car sales
- Innovation
- February 25, 2020, 13:13
Production of electric cars in Europe is stalling due to a lack of battery supply. Meanwhile, and not entirely unrelated, it looks as if the majority (...)

Coronavirus might shut European plant, Fiat Chrysler warns
- Manufacturing
- February 6, 2020, 13:55
Fiat Chrysler is as little as a fortnight away from halting production at one of its European plants because of problems sourcing Chinese parts, the c(...)

Banks push Iseq higher even amid heightened Brexit uncertainty
- Markets
- September 24, 2019, 19:04
Dublin’s Iseq index stood out as a bright light across European markets, driven by a solid performance by banking shares, even as shares in London suc(...)

Will the electric car switch trigger motor industry unemployment?
- Motors
- May 8, 2019, 06:09
Crack open the bonnet of a Mercedes-AMG model, or maybe an Aston Martin. You will, of course, find an engine – most likely a hulking great V8, or if y(...)

Carlow’s unlikely role in dominating the global lithium trade
- Energy & Resources
- October 10, 2018, 13:04
Carlow is an unlikely staging post in the super-charged rise of a key player in China’s push to dominate the global electric-vehicle revolution. Ganf(...)

Will we soon be able to charge electric cars in just a minute?
- Motors
- January 10, 2018, 07:20
In an announcement designed, surely, to take some of the wind from Tesla’s sails, Henrik Fisker is claiming to have made a dramatic breakthrough in ba(...)

Toyota promise electric or hybrid versions of all its cars by 2025
- Motors
- December 18, 2017, 11:40
Toyota said it would market more than 10 all-electric vehicle (EV) models globally in the early 2020s, a target which could require the firm to look (...)

Toyota and Panasonic consider joint development of electric vehicle batteries
- Technology
- December 13, 2017, 18:15
Toyota Motor and Panasonic said on Wednesday they were considering jointly developing batteries for electric vehicles (EVs), a partnership that could (...)