Lithium batteries produced in Northwest Czech Republic
“The Tesla Series 6 has over 6000 of these Lithium Batteries” by Wesley Fryer is licensed under CC BY 2.0
In June 2020, The Czech Republic’s dominant power company, ČEZ, proposed the construction of a factory to produce lithium batteries for electric cars in North Bohemia. In July 2021, the Czech Ministry of Industry and ČEZ signed an agreement over plans to attract a gigafactory for electric car batteries. Industry minister, Karel Havlíček, said in an accompanying press conference that the Czech government was prepared to give direct and indirect state support “worth several billion koruna” to help land the factory in which investment will total at least Koruna 52 billion (EUR 2.1 billion) with battery production capacity of at least 40 GWh/year and up to 55 GWh/year. It’s still too early to tell how successful this initiative has been.
Further reading
Czech energy company CEZ signs gigafactory agreement with government. Read more.
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