Electric Mobility
Reuters
Mar 31, 2022, 2:40 AM
South Korea's three major players, which command a third of the global electric vehicle (EV) battery market, told Reuters they were all grappling with a shortage of research and engineering specialists as demand for the technology balloons.
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