RE: Rock Stock vodcast13 Dec 2022 10:31
There are documented reasons why VW have delayed their CEE gigafactory decision:
1) The push back in timescales for the software development (Trinity project)
2) High energy costs currently 5 times more expensive than China making Europe far from competitive
Some commentators have stated that this delay suits the Czech government so that they can get all approvals and incentives finalised with VW.
Also, VW making a clear and threatening statement to the European critical raw materials committee --greater incentives need to be accelerated to encourage multi-billion euro investments.....hopefully this will encourage the civil servants and politicians to execute a policy rather than keep having meetings and doing very little!
Hopefully, Czech are still potentially able to host 3 gigafactories including VW, LG and CEZ with its JV partner.
They will all need lithium and Cinovec being our bet will be one of the suppliers.