Sensational news has arrived about the Chinese battery manufacturer making a huge investment in Debrecen
China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology (known as CATL) is the world’s largest battery manufacturer, selling the most electric car energy storage systems. The company that made a huge investment in Debrecen has recently strengthened its position on the world market and increased its global market influence.
Following the Bloomberg article Electric cars.hu describes an updated series of data from the Seoul-based market research and analysis company SNE Research, according to which CATL already owns more than 37 percent in this segment. Summing up the sales data for the first 11 months of last year, it turns out that the Chinese manufacturer sold 165.7 GWh of batteries in 2022, in the period between January and November. This is almost three times as much as BYD (60.6 GWh), which is now advancing to second place, followed by silver medalist LG-Energy Solution (54.8 GWH).
CATL, which is operated from the headquarters in Fujian, achieved all that in the last quarter its main customers (Volkswagen, Geely, Nissan and Tesla) were able to sell fewer cars overall than expected.
SNE Research also drew attention to the fact that the sales index of electric car batteries increased significantly in November: a 70 percent increase compared to the same period of the previous year.
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