Africa’s first battery gigafactory will begin commissioning production lines during the week of October 20 at Kenitra’s Atlantic Free Zone,…
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Morocco Secures €480 Million Battery Materials Plant to Feed Volkswagen’s Europe Supply Chain
A €480 million joint venture between China’s Gotion High-Tech and Volkswagen’s PowerCo will build a lithium iron phosphate cathode materials…
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EV Batteries Outlast Cars, Owners Tell Buyer Fearing 10-Year Replacement Bill
Concern over EV battery replacement costs persists, but long-time owners say modern packs typically outlast the vehicles themselves. Capacity degrades…
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€852 Million EU Battery Grants Reveal $2.5 Billion Race to Close Gap with China
Europe’s latest battery subsidy reveals an uncomfortable math problem, with the bloc committing massive public funds just to stay within…
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Sodium-Ion Home Batteries That Last 25 Years Are Already Installed in European Homes and Coming to the US by 2027
California-based startup UNIGRID has begun shipping its Na+Casa sodium-ion residential battery, with first units now installed in European homes. US…
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Tesla Opens Its Live 4680 Battery Line to Startups as It Races to Scale Dry Electrode Tech Across Continents
Tesla has launched the JUNI x Tesla Battery Cell Giga Challenge, inviting startups to work directly on its live 4680…
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Tesla Opens Gigafactory Berlin to Startups With Paid Pilots to Power Its $350 Million Battery Revolution
Tesla has launched the Battery Cell Giga Challenge at Gigafactory Berlin, a startup accelerator program developed in partnership with Berlin-based…
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Quebec Bet $650 Million on Three Electric Battery Companies and Watched All Three Go Bankrupt
Three Quebec electric battery companies — Northvolt, Lion Electric, and Taiga Motors — collapsed after receiving over $650 million in…
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AI Discovers 26 Million Tonnes of Lithium Sitting Beneath Europe’s Biggest Battery Factories
US startup Atana Elements is using AI to locate lithium deposits beneath Europe's major battery manufacturing hubs, targeting 1.5 million…
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Europe’s Battery Industry Is Losing to China and One Veteran Investor Says the Continent Has Already Run Out of Time
A venture partner with experience in European battery sector failures warns that Europe cannot compete with China on market terms…
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