Solarex Mart Nisan 2018

Jianghua Su, the Co-chair of GSR
Capital, the top level executives of
NEVS, the designer and producer of
superior quality electric vehicles, and
one of the focus companies the GSR
Capital invests in, namely NEVS Board
Chairman Kai Johan Jiang, CEO Stefan
Tilk and Representative Shareholder
Chao Ma, Board Members of Zorlu
Holding Olgun Zorlu, Selen Zorlu,
Emre Zorlu, Zorlu CEO Ömer Yüngül
and the President of Vestel Group of
Companies Turan Doğan.
The investments under the partnership
deal will earn the Turkish economy a
high added value export revenue of
6 billion dollars in the long run, and
anew employment opportunity for
4,000 people. The two groups are set to
establish R&D centers in the associated
fields of materials, mechanics and
software in Japan, China and Turkey.
Under the agreement it is planned to
start battery pack operations before
the end of 2018, and to complete the
investment for the full battery production
in the next 5-year period. The factory,
with an annual capacity of 25,000
MW, to be commissioned in 2023 will
perform the whole line of processes from
manufacturing of intermediate products
to software, and produce batteries
After the signing ceremony, GSR Capital
Co-chair Jianghua Su said, “GSR Capital
focuses on industrialization of new energy
technology for years. We believe in the
power, dynamism and potential of Turkey.
This partnership with Zorlu Holding,
one of the most innovative groups of
Turkey, will be a key part of our business
development in Europe. This cooperation
with Zorlu Holding for nickel, cobalt
and battery production enables a vertical
integration in a win-win cooperation. We
appreciate the vision, entrepreneurial
spirit and courage of Zorlu Holding,
which developed a magnificent plant like
Meta Nikel, one of the top 10 plants in
this field not only in Turkey but also in
the world. Now, altogether we will make
investments and export high value-added
products to many countries across the
world. Besides electric cars, we will join
our forces to offer innovative products
in many fields related to energy storage.
With this battery production plant that
we will create as part of this vision, we
Jiang, CEO’su Stefan Tilk ve Hissedar
Temsilcisi Chao Ma, Zorlu Holding
Yönetim Kurulu Üyeleri Olgun Zorlu,
Selen Zorlu, Şule Zorlu, Emre Zorlu,
Zorlu Holding CEO’su Ömer Yüngül
ve Vestel Şirketler Grubu Başkanı Turan
Erdoğan katıldı.
Yapılan bu ortaklık anlaşması
çerçevesinde gerçekleştirilecek
yatırımlarla uzun vadede Türkiye
ekonomisine 6 milyar dolar tutarında
yüksek katma değerli ihracat geliri ve
4.000 kişiye de istihdam sağlanacak.
Anlaşma kapsamında ayrıca, iki grubun
malzeme, mekanik ve yazılım alanlarında
Çin ve Türkiye’de AR-GE merkezleri
kurması hedefleniyor. 2018 yılı içerisinde,
batarya paketleme işleminin başlaması,
ardından da 4 yıllık bir dönem içinde
komple batarya üretimine yönelik
yatırımın tamamlanması hedefleniyor.
Yatırımı 2018’de başlayacak ve 2023’te
tamamlanarak devreye alınacak tesis
ara mamulden yazılıma kadar tüm
süreçleri kapsayacak ve yılda 25 bin MW
kapasiteyle batarya üretecek.
Düzenlenen imza töreni sonrasında
duygu ve düşüncelerini dile getiren
GSR Capital Eş-başkanı Jianghua Su,
“GSR Capital olarak, yıllardır yeni
enerji teknolojilerinin endüstriyel çapta
üretimine odaklanmış durumdayız.
Türkiye’nin gücüne, dinamizmine ve
will work together to become one of the
strongest players in the global innovation
economy of the future. I hope this
partnership will be the first step for new
achievements for GSR Capital, Zorlu
Holding and Turkey.”
Concerning the battery production
business Yüngül said this investment
would make the first stage of a long
journey and continued as follows: “Here,
we will start with battery pack business
for electric cars and power storage.
Besides, we are exploring the possibility
of setting up a 25,000 MW capacity
battery production facility on an area of
about 300,000 square meters. We aim to
start our battery production investment
in 2018 and have our factory start
operations in 2023. These investments
in batteries which had started to be used
in mobile phones, and which today are
already being used in electric vehicles
and in the storage of the energy, will
contribute to the economic growth in
Turkey. Our partnership will enable us
to turn an intermediary product which
we export from Meta Nikel for 1 billion
dollars, into a value-added finished
product that will bring an export revenue
of 6 billion dollars. This cooperation
indeed means a leap forward to a phase
where we will produce the brain of an
electric vehicle, i.e. the battery, and thus
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