[앵커]
Regarding secondary batteries, which are essential for electric vehicles, the US and Europe are introducing systems to reduce their dependence on Chinese products.
The government and the battery industry plan to establish a ‘one team’ to secure key minerals such as lithium, which is called white oil, to become the world’s No. 1 battery by 2030.
This is Reporter Lee Seung-yoon.
[기자]
Ombre Muerto Salt Lake is located at an altitude of 4,000 m in the Andes Mountains in northwestern Argentina.
In this place where it is not easy to breathe, a plant of POSCO Holdings was built to extract lithium.
[최정우 / 포스코 그룹 회장 : 포스코 그룹의 이차 전지 소재 경쟁력을 강화시키는 시작점으로 100년 기업의 근간이 될 중요한 이정표가 될 것이며….]
A technology to extract more than 90% of battery raw materials from used secondary batteries has also been developed in Korea.
Korea also actively jumped into the global competition to secure lithium, which is called white oil.
[문남일 / 영풍 그린 메탈 캠퍼스 소장 : 리튬 90% 이상, 니켈·코발트 95% 이상 회수할 수 있는 건식 용융 환원 기술입니다. 자원이 부족한 우리나라의 자원 순환 경제 발전에 기여하도록 하겠습니다.]
A technology that saves more than 85% of electricity consumed in the process of charging and discharging secondary batteries has also been developed, and the battery industry is strengthening its competitiveness abroad.
[나광수 / 갑진 기술연구소장 : 핵심 기술인 전력 변환 원천 기술을 통해 에너지 변환 과정을 고효율화하고, 손실을 최소화하고 있습니다.]
However, the US government’s policy to subsidize electric vehicles only when US-made batteries are used is posing a crisis to our battery industry.
This is because China’s dependence on battery raw materials exceeds 80%.
To overcome the crisis, the government and businesses have established the ‘K-Battery One Team’.
[이창양 / 산업통상자원부 장관 : 미국, EU 등 주요국들이 이차전지 산업을 경제 안보 관점으로 접근하고 있기 때문에 지금의 시장 지배력을 더욱 강화해나가기 위해서는 민관이 함께하는 전략적 대응이 필요합니다.]
So far, each company has signed a supply contract, but from now on, battery-related companies and the government will proceed from mineral excavation to smelting and supply.
The government plans to raise the world’s second largest secondary battery market share at 25.8% to 40% by 2030 through the secondary battery industry innovation strategy.
This is YTN Lee Seung-yoon.
YTN Lee Seung-yoon (risungyoon@ytn.co.kr)
※ ‘Your report becomes news’
[카카오톡] Search YTN and add a channel
[전화] 02-398-8585
[메일] social@ytn.co.kr
[저작권자(c) YTN 무단전재 및 재배포 금지]