FRANKFURT, Germany - Over 1,600 participants gathered last week for the 16th international Battery Experts Forum in Frankfurt, Germany. The event evolved into the leading get together of the battery industry and for the exchange of technological developments.

KARLSTEIN, Germany - The BMZ Group took over the Frankfurt-based TerraE Holding GmbH. In May 2017 the TerraE consortium was founded by three investors with the intention to build a factory for large-scale li-ion cell production. Last month German media reported that the project didn't take off successfully.

DRESDEN, Germany - The TerraE consortium, set up with great ambitions about a year and a half ago to establish a giga factory to produce lithium-ion cells, has seemed to have failed.