South Korean companies Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution say they will build a $4.3bn plant to make batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) in Savannah, Georgia. It’ll be sited…

Chinese battery manufacturer Eve Power will build a €3.7bn factory in Debrecen, Hungary, boosting the country’s role as the centre of the European electric vehicle (EV) industry. Hungarian foreign minister…

South Korean battery materials firm EcoPro has begun work on a $290m in a Hungarian plant making cathodes for electric vehicle (EV) batteries. A groundbreaking ceremony was held on Friday…

US battery manufacturer Entek plans a $1.5bn, 340-acre greenfield factory in Terre Haute, Indiana to make lithium battery separator components for electric vehicles. The US Department of Energy granted the…

America’s Form Energy has announced a $760m iron-air battery plant on a 55-acre plot in West Virginia’s northern panhandle. The factory will be built along the Ohio River in the…

Netherlands-based consultant Arcadis has been hired to plan and manage construction of an electric-vehicle battery cell gigafactory on a brownfield site in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Set to be one of Europe’s…

German auto-maker BMW plans to spend €2bn on a battery factory near its future car factory in Debrecen, Hungary.  Milan Nedeljković, a member of the company’s management board, said the…

South Korea’s largest chemical company, LG Chem, plans to build a $3.2bn factory in the US state of Tennessee to make cathodes for electric vehicle (EV) batteries. It signed a…

Chinese battery-maker Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) will build a €7.3bn plant in Hungary’s second city, Debrecen.