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Samsung SDI building Li-ion battery plant in Hungary; global triangular production structure

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Samsung SDI has decided to use Hungary as its Li-ion battery production base in Europe. The new facility in Hungary will enable Samsung SDI to establish a global triangular production structure along with existing plants in Ulsan, Korea and Xian, China. —Executive Vice President Jeong SehWoong.

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

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Europe has become the fastest growing region for new electric vehicle (EV) lithium-ion battery capacity outside of China, according to Benchmark Minerals. Samsung SDI (Hungary): 20 GWh. SK Innovation (Hungary): 7.5 million EVs. Northvolt (Sweden): 16 GWh. Envision AESC (UK): 1.9GWh.

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Mercedes-Benz will be producing 8 all-electric EQ models in 2022

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BBAC), launched EQC production for the local market in China. The compact SUV EQB will be the first purely electrically powered production vehicle from Hungary and will complement the plug-in hybrid portfolio consisting of the CLA and CLA Shooting Brake. The work on the building has already been completed.

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COVID-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned?

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We propose to build on this foundation and find a way to learn not just from crises but even during the crisis itself. China enters world markets as major exporter of industrial products. Before the Great Boston Fire of 1872, the value of much real estate had been held down by the presence of crumbling buildings nearby.

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UN: world population is expected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050 and could peak at nearly 11 billion around 2100

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Around 2027, India is projected to overtake China as the world’s most populous country. In 2018, for the first time in history, persons aged 65 or above outnumbered children under five years of age globally. In China, for example, the population is projected to decrease by 31.4 million, or around 2.2%, between 2019 and 2050.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

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For example, with increasing evidence of genocidal Chinese government towards Uyghur residents, including forced labor camps, the lack of transparency regarding whether any Chinese EVs benefit from such labor prompts me to deduct 1 production point from China (out of ~25 it had earned). 2ND PLACE: CHINA!

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