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CATL to build €7B battery plant in Hungary, its second in Europe

Teslarati

billion to build a 100 GWh battery plant in Hungary. The Debrecen, Hungary battery plant would join CATL’s Munich, Germany facility as the second for the company in Europe. For comparison, Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin facility sits on 300 hectares of land. CATL announced on Friday that it would invest €7.34

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Benchmark Minerals: Europe’s EV gigafactory capacity pipeline to grow 6-fold to 789.2 GWh to 2030

Green Car Congress

Samsung SDI (Hungary): 20 GWh. SK Innovation (Hungary): 7.5 Overall, Benchmark is forecasting Europe to have a capacity of 789.2GWh by 2030, a little over 14% of the global total of 5,454GWh. For comparison, China is growing by 220% in the same period, while the US is forecast to grow its battery capacity by 575%.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

This is a global challenge, to which different countries can contribute in different ways, and the big picture must be in view. Since the general auto market remained slumped, global EV market share increased nicely from 2.8% Globally ~14k Ioniq BEVs were sold. It *is* literal madness to keep doing it. in 2019 to 4% in 2020.

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War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

Cars That Think

In comparison, Soviet (Russian) gas was available in huge volumes, and it came from some of the world’s largest reservoirs, guaranteeing reliable long-term deliveries. The main alternative, liquefied natural gas delivered by ship, was far more expensive, as was gas delivered by pipelines from North Africa.

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