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it's just a better way to do business.

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Welcome back to the podcast. Today, VW's cell making, Mercedes S-Class gets a plug,

and Volvo bets on America. Plus stay tuned. Later in the show, I'll tell you why. For many drivers,

their first taste of electric motoring now comes not from a showroom,

but from a rental counter. No EV News China today as it's the weekend. It's back tomorrow morning. Let's get into it. Volkswagen's battery arm, Power Co, has started series production

at its 2 billion euro gigafactory in Salt Skitter, a 69,000 square meter plant that broke ground in July of

2022 and switched on in December 2025. At full tilt, it'll turn out 40 gigawatt hours of cells a year.

Output will ramp through this year to 20 gigawatt hours. That's enough cells for 250,000 of their EVs. The VW Group

now designs, develops and manufacturers its own cells entirely in Europe. Sales will go first

into packs for the group brands, then into its new urban EV family of vehicles from VW, Schauder and Sayat, like the ID Polo, ID

ID Cross SUV, Scoda, Epic, Cooper, Ravall and more, the MEP Plus platform. Powerco aims to cover

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