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In late 2019, residents of the German town of Arnstadt awoke to find diggers breaking ground on a new factory at the site of a defunct solar panel plant. Stretching over 23 hectares (around 100 football fields), the $2 billion plant was Germany’s first large scale battery ‘Gigafactory’ with the capacity to pump out enough batteries for hundreds of thousands of electric cars every year.
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