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Lack of lithium detail in Volkswagen plans

GERMAN carmaker Volkswagen wowed attendees at its virtual Power Day on Monday with the scale of its ambition in the battery space, but detail on raw materials – particularly lithium – was sorely lacking.

Tom Hoskyns
VW's ID.3 electric car

VW's ID.3 electric car

VW said during the event, which was broadcast live in a similar vein to the Tesla battery day in September 2020, it planned to build six battery megafactories - equating to 240GWh of lithium ion battery...

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