Key Points
US automaker General Motors and South Korea's smartphone brand Samsung SDI have announced to invest $3 billion or more to build a joint venture electric vehicle (EV) plant in the United States...
Through the plan, the companies aim to have an annual production capacity of 30 gigawatt hours (GWh)..
The new factory will have more than 30 gigawatt hours of capacity and will increase GMs total U.S. battery cell capacity to about 160 gigawatt hours when it is at full production, the companies said..
Earlier this month, General Motors has announced that it will remove Apple CarPlay and Android Auto support in its EVs in the future..
The automaker, however, will retain the support for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in combustion-powered vehicles as well as currently available EVs..
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