Happy new year and welcome to the latest issue of Batteries International.
Our cover story focuses on Europe’s scramble to keep its gigafactories dream alive and the international dimensions of the crisis, amid fears much-needed battery investments are seeping away from the EU to the US and Asia, where investors are being lured by a myriad of subsidies, tax credits and other incentives.
We also look at the global impact of the race to secure the raw materials needed to fuel the battery factories of the future and explore how geopolitical tensions over the issue threaten to trigger a trade war.
Meanwhile, as a new year gets underway, we get the views of the battery industry’s great and good on what lies ahead for 2023.
We also have a special report on how speculative investors control the battery industry.
And don’t miss our ‘Who’s Who’ of battery formation, highlighting the firms and machinery servicing this essential developmental process.
