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Existing European producers with their own technologies had always been relatively modest and did not achieve the production ratios indicated for a competitive plant. In this section of DYNA we have repeatedly echoed the apparent neglect that Europe showed for the location of these plants which, it must be said, were also going to be with non-European technologies. On July 6th (https://www.revistadyna.com/noticias-de-ingenieria/espana-no-aparece-en-perspectivas-europeas-para-disponer-de-una-planta-de-baterias-para-automoviles) we mentioned some projects underway, although none of them seemed to be directed at Spain.

The news also stated that, in view of the foreseeable evolution of the electric vehicle industry, battery plants that were initially thought to be for 15 GWh per year were insufficient and that there was a minimum of 30 GWh at the moment, with a tendency to increase to 60 GWh in the near future. Spain has defended its absence in some forums on the grounds that better and different technologies than those of ion-Li, currently under investigation, are expected, an argument with little basis, since it could turn out to be outside that market definitively.

In any case, a five-year horizon is already beginning to emerge in Europe with a number of plants, some of which are in operation and others are in the pipeline, which may at least supply the European automotive industry (the TESLA plant in Berlin is not indicated, nor the expansion of SK in Hungary).

But the most gratifying news is even more recent. There is a possibility that the NISSAN (Barcelona) plant, which is to be closed next year, will be taken over by the Korean company LG, which already has a plant in Poland. It would be for 30 GWh, and could be up and running by 2024 or 2025, when there will be a significant production of electric cars in Spain.
And if some other technology comes along, at least we are not completely unaware of the processes involved in manufacturing the fundamental element for providing energy to vehicles.