LG Opens First US EV Charger Factory to Serve North America

LG Electronics Inc. today opened its first EV charger factory outside of South Korea — in Forth Worth, Texas — as the company targets the North American market.

LG repurposed a 100,000-square-foot (9,000-square-meter) facility that has the capacity to produce 12,000 chargers per year, according to Michael Kosla, senior vice president of sales at LG Business Solutions US. The company will partner with charging station operators to sell its machines. LG anticipates benefitting from the Biden administration’s National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program (NEVI), which is allocating funding to operators of charging stations to build out a national network of public EV chargers in the US.

“We have letters of intent ...