Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2022

Just three and a half years ago, Benchmark’s lithium-ion Battery Gigafactory Assessment (September 2018) reported Europe’s battery cell capacity to be at 120GWh by 2030—enough cells for 2.2 Samsung SDI (Hungary): 20 GWh. SK Innovation (Hungary): 7.5 million EVs. Now this planned annual capacity figure stands at 789.2

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2019

In 2018, for the first time in history, persons aged 65 or above outnumbered children under five years of age globally. In Japan this ratio is 1.8, By 2050, one in four persons living in Europe and Northern America could be aged 65 or over. the lowest in the world.

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EV Sales

MARCH 22, 2021

The only exception to this geographical intra-Europe rule was Ukraine, entering the Top 10 in 2016-2018 on the power of grassroots-driven lively market of second-hand EV imports, which seems to have stalled in 2019-2020. That said, China also dominates the global E-bus market, delivering and building assembly plants all over the place.

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