News Mott MacDonald picked for Dutch battery scheme Mott MacDonald has been chosen to provide owner’s engineering and advisory services on the Leopard Project, billed as one of Europe’s largest battery energy storage projects with a physical capacity…
News Construction to begin on Tesla battery factory in Shanghai next month American EV maker Tesla is to break ground on a battery factory in Shanghai in May, according to Chinese state news agency Xinhua. The facility will be capable of manufacturing…
News Chinese firm to invest $150m in Nigerian battery factory China and Nigeria agreed to build an EV battery factory in the African country at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. Photovoltaics specialist Shenzhen LEMI Technology Development Company will invest…
News Stellantis in talks to build battery mega factory with China’s CATL Chinese battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) and Dutch-based car maker Stellantis Group signed a memorandum of understanding on Tuesday outlining plans to form an alliance. It sees CATL supplying…
News Taiwanese battery maker gets €1.5bn to build French plant The French government is to give €1.5bn to Taiwanese battery maker ProLogium to build a factory near Dunkirk. The company announced its intention to base its first large-scale overseas production…
News Chinese, Thai firms team up to target Southeast Asia battery market Chinese battery maker Eve Energy said it will build a lithium-ion plant in Thailand to serve the Southeast Asian market. The announcement is the latest in the global rush to…
News China’s Sunwoda joins rush to build battery plants in Hungary China’s Sunwoda Electronic will invest up to $274.71m to build an electric-vehicle battery factory in Hungary, Reuters reports, citing a filing to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange yesterday. The money will…
News €100m EU grant for Norway’s Arctic battery factory The EU’s Innovation Fund has given a €100m grant to Norwegian battery maker Freyr for its $1.6bn Giga Arctic project in northern Norway. Giga Arctic has been under development in…
News Canada agrees to $11bn subsidy to save Ontario battery plant The Canadian government has agreed to provide a subsidy of US$11.2bn to restart work on a stalled battery factory in the city of Windsor, Ontario, Reuters reports. The project is…
News ‘Electric’ BMW breaks ground on $700m battery plant in South Carolina BMW has broken ground on a $700m electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in Woodruff, South Carolina to supply the company’s main US car factory in nearby Spartanburg. It is also…
News US government lends Ford-SK duo $9.2bn for battery plants The US Department of Energy (DOE) has conditionally committed to a $9.2bn loan to a joint venture of Ford and Korean conglomerate, SK On, to build three battery factories, one…
News Chinese battery maker to enter Africa with $6.4bn Moroccan battery plant Morocco signed a memorandum of understanding yesterday with a Chinese electromotive group that wants to invest $6.4bn in a battery-making complex, website Utilities reports. Gotion High-Tech, based in Hefei, specialises…
News Hyundai and LG Energy to build $4.3bn battery plant in Georgia South Korean companies Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution say they will build a $4.3bn plant to make batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) in Savannah, Georgia. It’ll be sited…
Trends Chinese battery maker joins surge of investors in Hungary’s EV industry Chinese battery manufacturer Eve Power will build a €3.7bn factory in Debrecen, Hungary, boosting the country’s role as the centre of the European electric vehicle (EV) industry. Hungarian foreign minister…
News Korean company starts $290m Hungarian battery plant South Korean battery materials firm EcoPro has begun work on a $290m in a Hungarian plant making cathodes for electric vehicle (EV) batteries. A groundbreaking ceremony was held on Friday…
News Indiana to get $1.5bn electric vehicle battery plant US battery manufacturer Entek plans a $1.5bn, 340-acre greenfield factory in Terre Haute, Indiana to make lithium battery separator components for electric vehicles. The US Department of Energy granted the…
News Form Energy plans $760m battery factory in West Virginia America’s Form Energy has announced a $760m iron-air battery plant on a 55-acre plot in West Virginia’s northern panhandle. The factory will be built along the Ohio River in the…
News Arcadis to manage construction of major new battery factory in Germany Netherlands-based consultant Arcadis has been hired to plan and manage construction of an electric-vehicle battery cell gigafactory on a brownfield site in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Set to be one of Europe’s…