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SAN FRANCISCO, March 23 (Reuters) - South Korea's LG Energy Solution plans to build a <br>
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battery factory in Arizona to supply to Tesla and other customers, two persons familiar with the matter told Reuters.<br>
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The U.S. factory is expected to produce cylindrical battery cells of different sizes, for customers,<br>
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including EV makers Lucid and Proterra and Philip Morris, maker of IQOS heated-tobacco sticks, one of <br>
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<b>Another person said startups like electric scooter makers will use batteries from the factory.</b><br>
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Tuesday that battery production would be "the limiting factor" for vehicle production in two to three years,<br>
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as the world's largest electric vehicle maker aims to boost sales.<br>
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He has called on suppliers to raise production, while Tesla starts making cells itself.<br>
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LG did not immediately respond to Reuters' request to comment outside <br>
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normal business hours. Tesla, Lucid, Proterra did not immediately respond to request for comment.<br>
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Philip Morris declined to comment.<br>
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Japan's Panasonic Corp, one of Tesla suppliers, along with Contemporary Amperex Technology <br>
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Co, is also looking to invest billions of dollars to build <br>
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a factory to make a new type of electric vehicle (EV) battery for Tesla Inc, public broadcaster NHK reported earlier this month.<br>
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Panasonic is looking at building the factory in either Oklahoma or <br>
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Kansas, not far from Tesla's new Texas vehicle plant, <br>
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NHK reported.<br>
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Sherry House, CFO of Lucid, which has a car factory in Arizona, told Reuters <br>
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last month that it had signed multi-year supply agreements with two <br>
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battery suppliers, and the agreement "does have some capacity coming from state-side cell lines."<br>
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<i><u>She did not identify the companies. Lucid sources batteries <br>
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from LG and Samsung SDI.</u></i><br>
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LG, which raised more than $10 billion in its initial public <br>
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offering in Korea in January, has announced a flurry of battery <br>
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joint ventures with GM and Stellantis in the United States and Canada.<br>
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In August, U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order aimed at making half of <br>
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all new vehicles sold in 2030 electric. (Reporting by Hyunjoo Jin and <br>
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Heekyong Yang. Editing by Jane Merriman)<br>
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