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Whether we like it or not the Age of the Electric Auto is coming nearer and Battery Making “Gigafactories” are about to arrive in Europe, challenging the lead taken by Tesla Inc. - Dave ;)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has broken ground on a new £431 million (€500m) factory in Germany that is planned to assemble lithium ion battery packs for Mercedes-Benz’s upcoming line-up of EQ-branded electric cars as well as its Smart Electric Drive models, new electric commercial vehicles and future hybrid models. The new facility in Kamenz, which is 81 miles south of Berlin in Germany and is described as Europe’s first true electric car battery making “Gigafactory” and marks the second stage in a broader €1 billion investment made by Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler in its Accumotive energy storage subsidiary as it prepares to enter the electric car ranks with its first unique styled EQ-badged model, previewed by the Generation EQ SUV, in 2019.

Daimler’s factory would be the biggest yet in Europe, responding to Tesla’s $5 billion “Gigafactory” venture with Panasonic Corp in Nevada USA. At Daimler, batteries will feed both its cars and a venture Mercedes-Benz entered with rooftop-solar installer Vivint Solar Inc. to produce home energy storage systems. Large-scale factories are also planned in Sweden, Hungary and Poland, as well as Daimler’s battery assembly plant in Germany, are expected to feed demand from automakers such as Volkswagen AG and Renault SA. That will cut the cost of lithium-ion packs by 43 percent and make electric cars a mainstream reality, the researcher estimates.

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Nissan Sunderland to repurpose expired Electric Car batteries for households:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... -powerwall
but this article says Nissan selling off it's Lithium Battery business to Chinese investors.
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DaveBerlin wrote: Sun May 28, 2017 8:49 am Whether we like it or not the Age of the Electric Auto is coming nearer and Battery Making “Gigafactories” are about to arrive in Europe, challenging the lead taken by Tesla Inc. - Dave ;)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has broken ground on a new £431 million (€500m) factory in Germany that is planned to assemble lithium ion battery packs for Mercedes-Benz’s upcoming line-up of EQ-branded electric cars as well as its Smart Electric Drive models, new electric commercial vehicles and future hybrid models.
How will Frau Merkel charge all her new electric cars? Since she has plans to shutdown all her descent power plants. From oil or coal-driven power plants? That will really help to decrease the pollution. Don't mention sun or wind, neither of them work year around, at least not in the northern part of the world.
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Gel, it looks like the Nissan Battery Business is being sold off as you reported to GSR Capital. At least the jobs at Sunderland appear to be safe which is a positive - Dave :)

https://newsroom.nissan-global.com/rele ... 70808-01-e
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Think Nissan might be on a winner if they did electric qashqai...
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So Nissan are now selling their Battery Operations & Production facilities to the Envision Group. This will also affect Sunderland but hopefully as stated it will not affect personnel. Nissan then seem to have their fingers in another Pie - Dave :)

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As previously mentioned Nissan now completes sale of battery business to Envision Group - Dave 😉

https://newsroom.nissan-global.com/rele ... 90329-01-e
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I have not seen any mention of installing solar panels on the car roof. Would this be possible for the future ? Another means of boosting the battery.
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Billgo, this is actually being developed now by Hyundai / Kai for a supposed launch this year - Dave
Hyundai and Kia unveil new solar roof to charge batteries in vehicles, launching this year (a couple of writeups) :

https://electrek.co/2018/10/31/hyundai- ... -vehicles/

https://thedriven.io/2018/11/01/hyundai ... h-by-2019/
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So in order to produce sufficient electricity for millions of battery powered cars we are going to eventually have mountains of old batteries which are very difficult and expensive to recycle and incredibly we will have to build dozens of nuclear power stations to supply the electricity, so that we can be greener and cleaner.
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