Europe begins to think like China in building its own battery industry

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Ewa Krukowska and Jesper Starn

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Bloomberg

July 04, 2019 07:48 AM

BRUSSELS/STOCKHOLM -- The European Union is starting to act like China when it comes to building the batteries that will drive the next generation of electric vehicles.

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