La disputa legal entre los dos fabricantes surcoreanos de bater\u00edas LG Chem y SK Innovation en EE.UU. se ha resuelto a favor de LG Chem o LG Energy Solution. La sentencia tambi\u00e9n tiene consecuencias para Ford y Volkswagen.<\/p>\n
++ Se han producido actualizaciones en la historia, por favor, consulte m\u00e1s abajo el art\u00edculo. ++<\/em><\/p>\n Despu\u00e9s de que la Comisi\u00f3n de Comercio de EE.UU. ya fallara provisionalmente a favor de LG en febrero de 2020, ahora llega su veredicto final. Y es duro: Se prohibir\u00e1 a SK Innovation importar a EE.UU. determinadas bater\u00edas y sus componentes durante un periodo de diez a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n Sin embargo, existen excepciones temporales: Por ejemplo, SKI est\u00e1 autorizada a importar temporalmente componentes para la producci\u00f3n estadounidense de bater\u00edas para los veh\u00edculos el\u00e9ctricos Ford F-150 y MEB de Volkswagen, durante cuatro a\u00f1os en el caso de Ford y dos en el de Volkswagen. Estos periodos pretenden dar a los fabricantes de autom\u00f3viles la oportunidad de encontrar otros proveedores nacionales de bater\u00edas. Adem\u00e1s, se concede a SK Innovation el derecho a importar componentes para reparar y sustituir las bater\u00edas instaladas en los coches el\u00e9ctricos ya entregados por Kia en EE UU.<\/p>\n Aunque la Comisi\u00f3n de Comercio de EE.UU. ya ha emitido su dictamen final, SKI tiene dos opciones para evitar la prohibici\u00f3n de las importaciones: Por un lado, LG Energy Solution est\u00e1 abierta a conversaciones para llegar a un acuerdo. Por otro, el gobierno estadounidense dispone de 60 d\u00edas para estudiar si veta la sentencia.<\/p>\n Otra salida para SKI ser\u00eda adquirir todos los materiales necesarios en EE.UU. para eludir la prohibici\u00f3n de importaci\u00f3n. Pero los analistas citados por Reuters<\/em> dicen que \"no es factible\". E incluso si fuera factible, los costes probablemente aumentar\u00edan por encima del nivel calculado hasta ahora.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" La disputa legal entre los dos fabricantes surcoreanos de bater\u00edas LG Chem y SK Innovation en EE.UU. se ha decidido - a favor de LG Chem<\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":128038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9927],"tags":[10230,13682,209,5470,329,21975,857,13946,609,567],"class_list":["post-149230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-battery-fuel-cell","tag-batteries","tag-battery-cells","tag-ford","tag-lg","tag-lg-chem","tag-lg-energy-solution","tag-sk-innovation","tag-suppliers","tag-usa","tag-volkswagen"],"acf":{"inhalt_teil2":" LG Chem filed a lawsuit against its competitor SK Innovation in spring 2019. The allegation was that employees recruited by SK Innovation from LG Chem had passed on LG Chem’s proprietary know-how to develop and produce batteries to SK Innovation. SK Innovation sued LG Chem for alleged patent infringements<\/a> a short time later. LG Chem claimed, among other things, that SK Innovation had only won the contract to supply battery cells for Volkswagen’s MEB modular system because employees poached by LG Chem had disclosed said trade secrets.<\/p>\n In a statement, SK Innovation regretted the US Trade Commission’s decision, but said it was “relieved that we will continue to supply Ford and Volkswagen”. It is unknown whether the two customers feel the same way: Neither Ford nor VW have yet commented on the ruling.<\/p>\n LG Energy Solutions sees its position confirmed in the ruling. “SKI\u2019s total disregard of our warnings and intellectual property rights gave us no choice but to file this case,” said Kim Jong-hyun, CEO of LG Energy Solution, in a statement. “The company will further strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights going forward.”<\/p>\n The CIP plant in Georgia will supply VW’s Chattanooga factory in neighbouring Tennessee. Volkswagen is currently converting parts of its US plant for MEB production; among other things, the ID.4 is to be built there starting from 2022. Chattanooga would have been the first MEB plant with cells from SKI. Now it remains to be seen how the VW Group will react to the new situation.<\/p>\n At Ford, the SK Innovation cells are intended for the electric version of the F-150 pickup, which is to be built from 2022. The US carmaker is somewhat in a quandary because the Ford is a customer of both parties: LG Chem supplies the battery cells for the Mustang Mach-E built in Mexico, more precisely from its plant in Poland, as Ford manager Ted Cannis confirmed to electrive<\/em>.<\/p>\n Update 15 February 2021<\/strong>: Following the ruling as above, which among other things only allows SKI to import battery components for Volkswagen for a period of two years and Ford for a period of four years, Volkswagen has now reacted.<\/p>\n The Group wants to apply to extend the exemption for at least four years and hopes that the two suppliers will settle the dispute out of court.<\/p>\n Volkswagen also stated they were an “unintended victim” in the dispute between the two battery makers to appeal to the US government.<\/p>\n VW has invested around $800 million in its Chattanooga plant in Tennessee to build electric cars and has hired hundreds of employees. “Volkswagen will take all necessary steps to allow us to fulfil our commitment to provide skilled jobs to proud Tennessee workers,” the automaker said in its appeal.<\/p>\n Ford Chief Executive Jim Farley publicly encouraged LG Chem and SK Innovation to settle this week as well. Both carmakers previously warned the dispute could disrupt supplies of the key EV parts and cost jobs during the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n On Friday, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp directly called on President Joe Biden to overturn the ITC ruling, warning the long-term prospects for the SK Innovation battery plant in Jackson County would be “harmed significantly.” The plant will eventually build batteries for Volkswagen and Ford.<\/p>\n The White House and SK Innovation declined to comment to the Reuters<\/em> news agency.<\/p>\n Update 08 March 2021:<\/strong> And the story continues. The ruling in the legal dispute between the two South Korean battery manufacturers LG Chem and SK Innovation in the USA only allows SKI to import battery components for Volkswagen for a period of two years and for Ford for a period of four years as above. Now the US Trade Commission is criticising Ford, saying that the carmaker continued to conclude battery contracts with SK Innovation even after evidence had emerged that the South Korean battery manufacturer had violated the trade secrets of its rival LG Chem. Ford denies the accusation and SK Innovation is threatening to halt the construction of its battery factory in Georgia.<\/p>\n Additional reporting by Nora Manthey.<\/em><\/p>\n reuters.com<\/a>,\u00a0koreajoongangdaily.joins.com<\/a>,\u00a0ustic.gov<\/a>\u00a0(PDF),\u00a0businesswire.com<\/a> (reaction to LGES), reuters.com<\/a> (update 13 February), reuters.com<\/a>, reuters.com<\/a> (update 08 March)<\/p>\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}