German carmakers left reliant on others for battery cells
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-china-batteries/german-carmakers-left-reliant-on-others-for-battery-cells-idUSKBN1JZ0C0
Plans by a Chinese company to build a battery cell factory in Germany should serve as a wakeup call for the national car industry, whose lack of its own production capacity risks leaving it exposed in a dawning era of electric mobility.