News Digest Item
11 Aug 2017

“Battery cell giga factory to create 3,000 jobs”

WirtschaftsWoche

German holding company Terra E needs 4 billion euros to construct a large battery cell factory that would create about 3,000 jobs, reports Angela Hennersdorf in WirtschaftsWoche. The location – to be decided in September – had to be “close to German carmakers”, so Germany was the most likely contender.

Read the article in German here.

For background, read the CLEW dossier The Energiewende and German carmakers.

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