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VW is spending 30 billion euros on the industry’s biggest push into electric vehicles with a new range of purely battery-powered cars to challenge electric-car leader Tesla Inc. The German manufacturer’s electric ID.3 hatchback will start rolling off assembly lines later this year.

“Samsung continues to be our battery cell supplier for Europe,” VW said in an emailed statement. Samsung declined to comment.

Tesla, beset by concerns over demand and its ability to make a profit, last month accused its battery supplier, Panasonic Corp., of being the culprit for tepid production rates of the affordable Model 3.

For more on VW’s decision to start building battery cells, click here

Earlier this month, VW outlined a project to build a domestic battery-cell factory in Germany together with Swedish startup Northvolt AB for almost 1 billion euros with capacity of 10 gigawatt hours. VW plans to take a final decision later this year.

VW’s electric rollout in the next ten years translates into battery demand of more than 300 gigawatt hours in Europe and Asia alone, outstripping current market capacities.

Volkswagen AG is making changes to its battery-purchasing plan worth about 50 billion euros ($56 billion) over concerns that one of its supply deals, with Samsung SDI Co. Ltd., might unravel, according to people familiar with the matter.

Samsung initially agreed to deliver batteries for just over 20 gigawatt hours, enough to power 200,000 cars with 100 kilowatt hour packs, before different views on production volume and schedule emerged during detailed negotiations, said the people, who asked not to be identified as the talks are confidential. The impasse cut pledged supplies to less than 5 gigawatt hours, they said.

Access to vast amounts of batteries to power a growing number of electric vehicles has emerged as a new battleground for global automakers amid capacity constraints, supply bottlenecks and limited access to raw materials. Producing batteries safe to use in cars is more complex than the technology used for consumer electronic devices like smartphones.

“VW ultimately needs 300 gigawatt hours of annual battery cell supply and without robust global multi-sourcing contracts this will be impossible,” Evercore ISI analyst Arndt Ellinghorst said. “It’s one thing talking up electric vehicle volume numbers, building the necessary value chain remains a major challenge.”

But why are you posting at all. Answer the question. What do you hope to achieve by giving investors the benefit of your admittedly dubious experience? Make friends or influence people?

A moral lesson. Clearly one you fail to grasp. I'm not sure why you've escaped being filtered until now, but I think you are going to have to go.

But "Following a successful tender process, the Company is now finalising contracts for the forthcoming drilling campaign and preparations are now well advanced for simultaneous test production and horizontal drilling operations at Horse Hill" so it's all but in the bag.

Sage trying desperately to convince everyone that they have worthless shares in an uninvestable company.

Why - because he wants to buy them cheap. Simples.

"Remember my name, fame
I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna learn how to fly, high"

Geomet.

you are getting confused with http://. Just saying. ".html" denotes the document type, not the protocol.

The data after the ? (or subsequent &) are indeed parameters to be passed to the server, which may or may not be relevant or important. Stuff like ?p=1 you can usually work out the meaning of and often "hack" by changing values. In the case of teh URL postes most are related to "referrer" and are indeed just tracking *******s. The url will work without them.

Smaller than the spread, I'm not sure that's what is meant by rinse and repeat., but whatever.

3.3, I have farted stronger than that. Officially, that's barely felt. We had a 4.6 a few years back, and a small picture fell off my bedroom wall. It didn't wake the missus.

Not caused by UKOG operations anyway, epicentre was way deeper, and we are not fracking. Honestly, if that's all they have we're home and gushing.

BCN going up on rumours of news from Zinnwald across the border.

DHC, no just backlog from bank holidays to clear.

A glut of deramping, a board infested with trolls and day traders, and general impatience. Not to mention those who think six months a LTH makes.

Too much time on your hands, or paid?

On UKOG you posted

"By the way I valued the fact that on this forum people are largely tolerant of both positive and negative perspectives on the share and largely don't insult one another, apart from the odd mildish (though still totally inappropriate) "you are an imbecile" eyc."

On IGAS in a spookily similar rant you posted

"By the way I valued the fact that on this IGas forum people are largely tolerant of both positive and negative perspectives on the share and largely don't insult one another. On at least one of the UKOG chat rooms.. I've forgotten which one... The posters are bullies and Nazis who think that only positive things may ever be said which would render it a useless forum anyway, and they use profanities, childish language, bullying language, and generally attempt to prevent any criticism of the share - for all the world if that forum were pravda."

In the ten minutes between posts you remembered which UKOG forum had the bullies and Nazis (you a remainer by any chance?). Don't bother replying, you are filtered, just take your environmentalist BS agenda, and blatant lying, elsewhere.

I seem to be increasingly getting Seadoc nonsense second hand, after tiring of it months ago and filtering. I'll be filtering anyone who regurgitates his blatant deramping, particularly, but not exclusively, if supporting the drivel.

https://twitter.com/DavidLenigas/status/1120993328235995136 - nws for ANGS not UKOG.

Agreed, that sort of drop for no good reason is usually to let someone in.

The clue is in the RNS title. "UK Oil & Gas PLC - Oil Production Test Update". It is what it says it is, and I for one am happy with what it says. Putting flow meters down the well would to be indicate an intent to up the flow rate - if it's been stable for so long as a capped rate why would you bother otherwise. I think we are going to see what the production flow rate will really be.

Fair enough. Really odd that there is no discontinuation notice that I can find, component manufacturers rarely just stop a product, lat alone a range of product, without proper notification of the supply chain.

I found it. https://www.murata.com/products/capacitor/edlc

However, it is not a discontinuation notice, just a notice (as you said) that they have stopped taking orders. This may well be related to the materials shortages, or that they have maxed out production capacity.

"The component market is causing a lot of issues right now. Any sort of surface mount cap that involves Murata, TDK, Kemet, etc. are facing lead times of 30+ weeks due to materials shortages. " https://acl.co.uk/assembly-contracts-component-lead-times.html