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Energy Storage

CATL builds huge battery R&D center in China

by Alex Scott
July 4, 2020 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 98, Issue 26

 

Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), the world’s largest lithium-ion battery producer and a supplier to Tesla, has broken ground on 21C Lab, a battery R&D center at its headquarters in Ningde, China. 21C Lab is due to open in 2021 at a cost of more than $450 million, and thousands of researchers will be working there within 5 years, CATL says. It plans to develop next-generation energy storage technologies at the site, including lithium metal, solid-state, and sodium-ion batteries.

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