Indonesia made the first big step toward becoming a hub for car battery and electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing in Southeast Asia by embarking on the construction of a US$1.1 billion car battery factory in Karawang, West Java, last week, with production scheduled to start in mid-2024.
As part of a $9.8 billion investment project, the factory, a joint venture of South Korean LG Energy Solution and Hyundai Group alongside Indonesian state-owned Battery Corporation, will have an initial capacity of 10 gigawatt hours of nickel-cobalt-manganese-aluminum lithium-ion battery cells to power 150,000 EVs. But the plant is designed to eventually have a total capacity of 30 GWh.
Endowed with 25 percent of the world’s reserves of nickel, which makes up 40 percent of the basic materials of lithium batteries, Indonesia indeed has a strong comparative advantage not only to become one of the world’s largest producers of car batteries but also a major production base for EVs.
Analysts have estimated that Asian EV sales will expand by almost 25 percent in 2022 as major economies in the region have pledged to achieve carbon neutrality: Japan and South Korea in 2050, China in 2060 and Indonesia in 2070.
Korea’s huge investment in the car battery and EV production is also quite a strategic step for Korean car manufacturers to gain a bigger share of the car market in Indonesia, which has been largely controlled by Japanese companies.
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