When news broke in late November that Swedish electric battery maker Northvolt had collapsed, it signaled a grim outlook for clean mobility in Europe. The startup was once hailed as the continent’s best hope for producing affordable batteries on home soil, instead of relying on Chinese imports. Experts and some industry figures are now expressing doubt as to whether it will ever be possible for Europe’s carmakers to produce electric vehicles self-sufficiently.
The European Union has set carmakers a 2035 deadline to end sales of new petrol combustion engine cars on the continent. In the UK, the Labour Party government recently brought this deadline
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