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Samsung SDI and Stellantis announce vehicle battery deal

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Tesla's 4680 battery cells are coming next year.

Other automakers will face dropping sales and will go bankrupt by end of this decade.

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Where will the battery factory in the USA get its materials? There is currently only one functioning lithium mine in the US and zero graphite mines.

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@Hillclimber

To put Stellantis' customer base into perspective, Jeep, Chrysler and Rams cumulative sales for 2021 to date are 1,164,219 units. This is considerably less than Toyota alone, the biggest brand in the US, with 1,549,203 units. I couldn't find figures for the other European brands except for Fiat, with 2,107 units year to date. Needeless to say the other brands will be similarly low.

This article is about EV batteries. Why you're bringing up ICE in this discussion is pretty ridiculous. To date, Toyota doesn't have a single EV, and their EV offering will most likely be garbage.

So for the grand total of cosiderbaly less than Toyota's sales, this deal makes headline news..... it's just more paid propaganda from the South Korean government's PR agency.

The statement comes from Samsung and Stellantis, not the South Korea government.

I know you're upset that Japan's batteries are inferior to Koreans, which is why no one wants Japanese batteries. Please take your frustration out on the incompetent Japanese engineers, not on Koreans. Thank you.

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@cla68

Where will the battery factory in the USA get its materials?

It will import them.

Sherritt Canada has plenty of nickel and cobalt.

Oops, the raw material comes from Cuba. Better relocate the battery factory to Canada then. lol

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