{"id":10573,"date":"2021-08-13T08:49:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T12:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=10573"},"modified":"2021-08-16T09:11:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T13:11:17","slug":"samsung-sdi-to-build-battery-plant-in-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/samsung-sdi-to-build-battery-plant-in-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung SDI To Build Battery Plant In Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samsung plans to build a battery factory in Normal, Illinois, according to Senator Dick Durbin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Electric car startup Rivian has a factory in Normal and announced in April that Samsung SDI will be supplying battery cells for its vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samsung SDI is also in talks to supply batteries that will be manufactured at a planned U.S. plant on the mainland, with manufacturers of electric vehicles such as Stellantis and Rivian, backed by Amazon and Ford Motor Co.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The South Korean technology giant is considering investing at least 3 trillion won ($2.62 billion) to make batteries for Stellantis and at least 1 trillion won to make batteries for Rivian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to sources, Samsung SDI has not yet made a final decision on whether to build the U.S. plant as a joint venture with automakers or as an independent production site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samsung SDI representatives have reportedly taken business trips to Detroit to discuss battery supply issues with Stellantis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All parties did not comment on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/samsung-unit-considers-building-battery-plant-illinois-senator-2021-08-12\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung plans to build a battery factory in Normal, Illinois, according to Senator Dick Durbin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-10573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","tag-samsung"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10573"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10599,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10573\/revisions\/10599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}