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Europe powers up electric car battery drive
As electric car sales soar, Europe has started to build up its capacity to produce batteries on the continent but it remains far from reducing its dependence on Asia.
read more... 21/06/2021
Northvolt expands gigafactory plans to 60GWh
Northvolt plans to increase capacity at its gigafactory in Ett, Sweden, to 60GWh, up from an original plan of 40GWh, citing rising demand for its batteries. This would push up Northvolt's total planned European battery production capacity to 150GWh by 2030. The factory is expected to begin partial operations by the end of this year. Northvolt expects to build at least two additional gigafactories in Europe to meet its capacity goals and is exploring the possibility of building one of them in Germany.
read more... 10/06/2021
European gigafactories essential to supply growing EV demand
With a number of gigafactories currently being built, Europe is becoming a growth market for battery manufacturing, which is essential to ensuring that Europe's fast-growing electric vehicles (EV) market can source locally supplied batteries, according to battery manufacturing panelists at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) Munich Summit May 17.
read more... 19/05/2021
Ford CEO calls on US government to support EV batteries, charging
Ford Motor Co's Chief Executive on Wednesday called on the US government to support battery production and charging infrastructure development, as he outlined the automaker's plan to develop electric platforms for its top-selling trucks, vans and SUVs.
read more... 26/02/2021
German solar batteries demand soar by nearly 50% in 2020
Demand for German solar batteries soared by 47% last year.
read more... 25/02/2021