Volkswagen to Decide on Eastern European Battery Plant by June 2022

Volkswagen to Decide on Eastern European Battery Plant by June 2022
The VW logo is seen at the site of the first hearing against VW over the diesel emissions cheating scandal, at the Higher Regional Court in Braunschweig, Germany on Sept. 30, 2019. Michele Tantussi/Reuters
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PRAGUE—Europe’s largest carmaker Volkswagen plans to decide in the first half of 2022 on the location for a planned battery cell plant in eastern Europe, it said on Monday.

Volkswagen earlier this year outlined plans to build six large battery cell factories across Europe by the end of the decade, with Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic in the running for one of them to be opened in 2027.