The joint research on the battery’s entire value chain – from raw materials to cell technology to recycling – will kick-off in early 2020.
The last word on raw material supply which Volkswagen considers a “key success factor,” naturally but is “confident that it will have sufficient quantities of all the raw materials required to ensure ramp-up of the e-fleet”.
Further negotiations with other providers are ongoing though, says Volkswagen and these will indeed be essential for any battery cell production in Europe going ahead.
I have said all along , who are they going to call , they just fell short of saying EMH
