Electric-Vehicle Makers Hit By Battery Troubles After Foreign Players Fail to Make Govt. List

(Beijing) – Carmakers in the world's largest electric vehicle market are in limbo over which battery to choose to fuel their future designs, after the Chinese government decided to leave out South Korea's two biggest electric-vehicle battery makers – LG Chem Ltd. and Samsung SDI Co. – off a list of licensed suppliers in June, a move that may disqualify them from subsidies despite producing the power units in China.