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by zeeed 751 days ago
If only they hadn’t recently defunded battery tech research they could’ve developed it themselves
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At the moment heavy import duties on Chinese batteries are being considered in the EU - similarly to those just imposed by the US. So I guess we too will have to figure out whether we want to fight climate change or the Chinese.
A lot of storage capacity will come from recycled EV batteries, so this will take some time.

The EU has battery tech research, also

https://northvolt.com/career/locations/heide/