BMW places billion euro order with Chinese battery producer CATL
German car company BMW has placed an order worth over one billion euros with Chinese battery producer CATL, BMW CEO Harald Kr眉ger told Handelsblatt in an interview. 鈥淐ATL will open a factory in Europe,鈥� Kr眉ger added. In a separate press release, BMW said it will increase its efforts to use car production plants for stabilising the power grid. The plants in southern Germany, 鈥渢ogether with other highly flexible plants in our company, will contribute to the public grid鈥檚 stability.鈥� The plants can provide the grid with the operating reserve to bridge oscillations in renewable power production, which according to BMW 鈥渉elps pave the way to the CO2-free electric mobility of the future.鈥�
Find the interview in German (paywall) and the press release in German .
See the 麻豆无码版 factsheet Early e-car starter BMW plans new mobility sprint for more information.