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Rock Tech Lithium to build Europe’s first lithium converter in Germany

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Rock Tech Lithium intends to build Europe’s first lithium converter—a production plant for battery-grade lithium hydroxide—in Guben, Brandenburg, Germany. This would correspond to the volume needed to equip around 500,000 electric cars with lithium-ion batteries. The property owners are at arm’s length to Rock Tech.

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Volvo Cars to triple electric car production capacity in Ghent after strong year of electrified car sales

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Volvo Cars is tripling electric car manufacturing capacity at its plant in Ghent, Belgium as it prepares to meet fast growing demand for its Recharge line-up of chargeable cars. The plant already builds the XC40 Recharge, the company’s first fully electric car, as well as a plug-in hybrid version of the XC40.

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Germany providing another €300M to subsidize private charging stations in residential buildings

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The German government is topping up the funding for private charging stations for electric cars in residential buildings by a further €300 million (US$349 million). The purchase and installation of the wall boxes are supported with a grant of €900 (US$1,050).

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Foxconn partnering with Thailand’s PTT to build EVs; MIH open EV platform

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It will build on Foxconn’s recently-established MIH industry alliance , an open network that enables developers and manufacturers to offer a complete software and hardware platform to build electric cars.

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Ferrari builds a new factory—just for electric cars

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Ferrari is prepping its first EV The new electric car will be built at its own newly-built factory in Maranello Ferrari plans for most of the factory's power to come from sustainable sources Ferrari recently unveiled an expansion of its factory to accommodate production of the automaker's first EV.

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Volkswagen to build MEB EVs in Chattanooga beginning in 2022; $800M investment in plant

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Volkswagen is establishing a worldwide production network for electric cars and intends to have eight MEB plants on three continents by 2022. In addition to Chattanooga, Volkswagen is building the first dedicated EV production facility in Zwickau, Germany, starting MEB production by the end of 2019.

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Volvo Cars building €1.2B EV manufacturing plant in Slovakia; third in Europe

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Volvo Cars will build a third manufacturing plant in Europe, positioning the company well to meet the continued demand from its customers for electric cars and capture future growth potential.

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