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What happened to the ‘gigafactories’?

7 June 2024

1:52 AM

7 June 2024

1:52 AM

Remember all those ‘gigafactories’ that were going to decarbonise our road transport and create many thousands of green jobs into the bargain? Now comes yet one more sign that all is not going according to plan. The Automotive Cells Company (ACC), a joint venture between carmakers Stellantis and Mercedes-Benz, and energy company Total Energies, has suspended work on two plants that it was constructing at Kaiserslauten in Germany and Termoli, Italy.

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