(1) Jie Ma, David Stringer, Zoey Zhang, and Sohee Kim with Elisabeth Behrmann, Electric Battery Makers Should Fear this Factory.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/f ... ctric-car-batteries
Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: China's CATL is building a mammoth plant as it tries to expand abroad
(b) summary in table of content in print: China's battery behemoth prepares to take on Tesla
(c) The online version is quite different from the print, whose first two paragraphs are as follows:
"The isolated city of of Ningde 福建省宁德市, on the mountainous shoreline of the East China Sea, is best known for fishing and farming. * * * When President Xi Jinping apprenticed here as a Communist Party chief in the 1980s [1988 -1990], it was the poorest city on the coast. Now, however, Ningde should have Panasonic, Samsung SDI, and LG Chem, the Big Three makers of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, running scared.
"For seven years, Ningde has been home to the sprawling headquarters of Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd 宁德新能源科技有限公司 [1999- ; founder 梁少康; private; headquartered in Hong Kong], or CATL, which has quickly become China's EV battery leader and is setting its sights on the rest of the world. On the landfilled mudflats across a lake from its main campus, the company is building a $1.3 billion battery production complex that will be second in size to Tesla's massive Gigafactory in Sparks [which is eastern neighbor of Reno], Nev, enabling enabling it to outstrip the capacity of other suppliers. CATL plans to finance construction partly by going public as soon as this year.
* Press release: Samsung SDI to Announce Its Vision and Goals. Samsung SDI, Dec 01, 1999
http://www.samsung.com/us/news/newsRead.do?news_seq=392
("The new name, [Samsung SDI] stands for Samsung with the initial letter S, 'Display' and 'Digital' with D and 'Interface' and 'Internet Component' with I. The new name is representing the image of the company actively involved in highly advanced Internet component-related areas such as digital, display and secondary battery businesses, core businesses in the 21st century" (brackets original) )
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