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Vattenfall contracts with BMW for up to 1,000 new 33 kWh Li-ion batteries this year for storage projects in wind farms

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Vattenfall and the BMW Group have signed a contract for the delivery of up to 1,000 lithium-ion batteries this year. megawatts (MW), it is Vattenfall’s first large storage project in the Netherlands. Vattenfall will purchase the new batteries from the BMW plant in Dingolfing and use them in all storage projects. With a capacity of 3.2

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JRC assesses EU RD&D investments in electric-drive vehicles; controls and energy storage top the list

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The study found that the majority of ongoing or recently concluded R&D projects are co-funded by, in rank order, Germany (38.5%), the European Union (27.3%), France (10.7%), the Netherlands (5.9%), and the UK (3.7%). —“Paving the way to electrified road transport”.