Zeng Yuqun, also known as Robin Zeng, is a Chinese billionaire entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of the battery manufacturer

Contemporary Amperex Technology Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (), abbreviated as CATL, is a Chinese battery manufacturer and technology company founded in 2011 that specializes in the manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage s ...

(CATL).

Early life and education

Zeng is from

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. He holds a

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in physics from the

Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences The Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOPCAS ) was the result of a merger, after the communist took control of the mainland China in 1949, between the Institute of Physics of Academia Sinica (IOPAS) founded in Shanghai in 19 ...

Career

In 1999, Zeng founded Amperex Technology Limited (ATL), a company manufacturing

lithium polymer batteries A lithium polymer battery, or more correctly lithium-ion polymer battery (abbreviated as LiPo, LIP, Li-poly, lithium-poly and others), is a rechargeable battery of lithium-ion technology using a polymer electrolyte instead of a liquid electroly ...

. In 2005 ATL was acquired by Japan's

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company, but Zeng continued as a manager for ATL. In 2012, Zeng and vice-chairman

Huang Shilin Huang Shilin (born 1967) is a Chinese billionaire and businessman, a vice chairman of Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), which is one of the world's largest battery suppliers for the electric vehicle industry. As of 2018, Huang owned 12% o ...

spun-off the EV battery operations of ATL into the new company CATL, which manufactures lithium-ion rechargeable batteries and rose to become one of the world's leading manufacturers in the years that followed.Tyler-Dudley, Davis, et al.
CATL: China’s Battery King.
May 6, 2021 In 2017, the company went public on

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. As of March 2022, his fortune was estimated at $46.8 billion, making him one of the richest people in China & Hong Kong.

References

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