The mobility rEVolution: Enphase Energy to expand EV charger deployments
Enphase Energy’s ClipperCreek unit is set to deploy more EV charging stations in the United States, and Siemens and Mahle have agreed to work on the standardization of wireless EV charging. Mercedes-Benz has expanded its battery supply partnership with CATL, while Tesla has announced that its gigafactory in Shanghai has produced its 1 millionth electric vehicle.
The mobility rEVolution: Volkswagen starts building battery cell plant
Volkswagen has started constructing its first battery cell factory in Germany, while Northvolt has raised $1.1 billion for a new battery gigafactory. Mercedes-Benz, meanwhile, has agreed to send second-life batteries to Canada for use in stationary storage applications.
‘China must put EV battery reuse at heart of net-zero ambition’
The centralized nature of policymaking in Beijing would enable component standardization to ease the transition from EV to stationary energy storage use, according to Greenpeace East Asia.
EU lender pitches in for LG Chem battery gigafactory in Poland
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending €250 million for a project which has expanded from producing an initial 100,000 EV batteries per year to an hoped-for 1 million by 2022, creating 1,000 new jobs along the way.
Tesla gigafactory orders see LG Chem supplant BYD as third biggest global battery supplier
The Chinese e-mobility company has been hammered since Beijing’s abrupt reduction of electric vehicle subsidies in the summer. Korean outfit LG Chem’s shipment volumes have gone in the opposite direction.
