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Growing pains for battery manufacturing in Europe

Chinese investment plays no small role in efforts to establish a European battery manufacturing ecosystem but as Europe’s gigafactory pipeline expands, so does the number of production plants at risk of being delayed, scaled down, or cancelled.

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Marija Maisch

09 Nov 2023

Europe’s pipeline of gigafactory projects has been progressing in a bid to avoid overdependence on Asian battery cell imports. Today, there are more than 50 battery cell factories planned, with a considerable proportion of them Asian manufacturers. Gigafactory announcements have been coming thick and fast but analysts are still predicting a shortage of production capacity …

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