This image shows a car battery plant under construction in Ohio to be completed next year under a joint venture between LG Energy Solution and Honda Motor. Courtesy of LG Energy Solution
Korea's LG Energy Solution Ltd. said Friday that its joint venture with Honda Motor has begun mass production of lithium-ion battery cells for energy storage systems (ESS) in the United States.
The battery plant in Jeffersonville, Ohio, operated by the joint venture L-H Battery, began producing ESS battery cells on Thursday (U.S. local time), the company said.
The battery cells will be supplied through LG Energy Solution Vertech, the company's North American ESS system integration subsidiary, for use in power grid, commercial, industrial and residential ESS applications across the U.S.
The plant was originally designed to manufacture battery cells for electric vehicles (EVs).
