{"id":466281,"date":"2022-02-04T11:30:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T06:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=466281"},"modified":"2022-02-04T13:42:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T08:12:54","slug":"gm-ventures-has-invested-in-this-ev-battery-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gm-ventures-has-invested-in-this-ev-battery-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"GM Ventures has invested in this EV battery startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>General Motors Co is among the investors in a North Carolina startup developing fast-charging lithium-metal batteries for future electric vehicles, the companies said Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Two-year-old Soelect announced a Series A raise of $11 million from GM Ventures, KTB Network and Lotte Ventures, an affiliate of Korea&#8217;s Lotte Chemical. <\/p>\n<p>Based in Greensboro, Soelect was founded in 2020 by Jin Cho, a 25-year battery veteran who has worked previously with LG, Samsung and Johnson Controls. <\/p>\n<p>Cho said Soelect has more than 20 customers, mostly in the automotive industry. <\/p>\n<p>GM&#8217;s interest in Soelect dovetails with its previous investment in and strategic partnership with Massachusetts battery startup SES, which is scheduled to go public this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Motors Co is among the investors in a North Carolina startup developing fast-charging lithium-metal batteries for future electric vehicles, the companies said Thursday. Two-year-old Soelect announced a Series A raise of $11 million from GM Ventures, KTB Network and Lotte Ventures, an affiliate of Korea&#8217;s Lotte Chemical. Based in Greensboro, Soelect was founded in 2020 by Jin Cho, a 25-year battery veteran who has worked previously with LG, Samsung and Johnson Controls. Cho said Soelect has more than 20 customers, mostly in the automotive industry. GM&#8217;s interest in Soelect dovetails with its previous investment in and strategic partnership with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}