Feuding Korean firms risk disrupting electric car battery supplies
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SEOUL (Reuters) - In 2018, South Korea's SK Innovation beat its larger, local rival LG Chem to a multibillion dollar deal to supply German carmaker Volkswagen with electric vehicle batteries in the United States.With great fanfare, SK Innovation (SKI) broke ground in March on a $1.7 billion factory in Commerce, Georgia, about 200 km from VW's Chattanooga plant, which will be the automakers electric vehicle hub in the United States.LG Chem (LGC) had other ideas.Stung by missing out on the VW..