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Where is Russia's new lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility located?

Russian state-owned Rosatom State Nuclear Energy (Rosatom) has announced it will build its 3 GWh lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility in Kaliningrad, in Russia's province of the same name, sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania along the Baltic coast.

What will Russia's new lithium-ion plant do?

The plant will focus on the production of lithium-ion cells and energy storage systems and will have a total annual battery manufacturing capacity of at least 3 GWh. “The signals we receive from the Russian market indicate that the production volumes we planned a year ago may be insufficient.

Will Renera build a manufacturing facility for energy storage systems?

Energy storage company Renera has signed an agreement with the Kaliningrad regional government to build a manufacturing facility for energy storage systems.

Will Russia bring the electric car supply chain into the country?

The production of the plant is to be purchased mainly by domestic car manufacturers, therefore the company will make an important contribution to the implementation of the government’s policy of import substitution. In other words, Russia wants to bring the electric vehicle supply chain into the country.

Will Russia supply lithium for electric cars?

Russia, in other words, is trying to secure supply of strategically important lithium to manufacture batteries on the multi-gigawatt-hour scale required for mass producing electric vehicles (a 1 GWh storage capacity is enough to equip 20 000 electric cars with a 50 kWh battery pack each).