LG is the world's second-largest battery provider for electric vehicles (EVs), and it's setting itself up for a long run of success. The company's arrival on the stage isn't an overnight success story, but rather a strategic buildup that has its sights set decades into the future with buy-in from most of the world's largest automakers. It all started with Lucky Cream. The multinational conglomerate now known as LG, was established as Lucky Chemical Co. in 1947 and its first product was a cosmetic cream. The chemical company opened a cosmetics laboratory in Seoul in the early '50s before using…