(CercleFinance.com) – Mercedes-Benz announced on Friday that it would extend its partnership with the Chinese lithium battery manufacturer CATL with the construction of a new production site in Hungary.
This plant, based in Debrecen, will be responsible for supplying high-performance battery cells for the new generation models of Mercedes-Benz vehicles to be assembled in Hungary and Germany.
Mercedes-Benz announced plans last year to become a ‘100% electric’ automaker by the end of the decade, a goal that requires reaching more than 200 gigawatt-hours of capacity. in the meantime.
To do this, the specialist in high-end cars says it plans to build, with its partners, eight battery cell manufacturing plants, including four on European soil.
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