RI soon to supply battery raw materials for Tesla

Jakarta –

Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Bahlil Lahadalia announced that Indonesia will soon have a factory for raw materials for electric car batteries (precursor). The factory belongs to Huayou Indonesia, and is expected to be established in November or December 2024.

Bahlil revealed that the construction and preparation of the factory is almost complete. Precursor production at the factory can be exported as raw material for Tesla car batteries.

“It is almost ready. Maybe next month it will be established,” said Bahlil at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Friday (1/11/2024)

Bahlil said the earliest target is to establish the factory this month, or no later than December 2024.

“God willing, this November, December at the latest,” said Bahlil.

Before that, Bahlil had said that there would be a pre-production factory with Huayou in North Maluku that was under construction. The plan is that the factory will supply electric batteries for Tesla electric cars from January 2025.

“Then what we are doing innovatively in the second semester, we are actually doing the car battery ecosystem section, that is the cathode, we will do that in Batang, LG,” he said in a press conference at his office in Jakarta, Monday (29/7/2024).

“Then in the second semester, Huayou built a precursor in North Maluku to supply Tesla’s demand. So in the future, on January 1, 2025, Indonesia will send battery products in the form of precursors from Indonesia, the factory is in Weda Bay,” continued Bahlil.

(hat/hns)