The state represented by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and ČEZ today concluded a memorandum on support for the project of a battery factory for electric vehicles in the Czech Republic, the so-called gigafactory.
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The document was signed by Minister of Industry and Transport Karel Havlíček (for YES) and CEO of ČEZ Daniel Beneš. According to the Minister, the expected investment of over 50 billion crowns will bring at least 2,300 jobs.
Havlíček announced last year that CEZ Group was considering building a factory for lithium batteries for cars in northern Bohemia in the next few years, which it described as a gigafactory project. Together with investors from the automotive industry, the company wants to use lithium from the Cínovec area in the Ore Mountains for the production of batteries.
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At the beginning of June, the minister stated that the government should decide in the coming weeks on an incentive in the order of billions of crowns for the establishment of a factory for batteries for electric cars in the Czech Republic. In mid-March, the minister told Hospodářské noviny (HN) that the Czech government was negotiating a project with the German carmaker Volkswagen.
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The memorandum available to ČTK states, among other things, that ČEZ is ready to become a project investor, supplier of energy, energy services and lithium from local sources, provide suitable premises and facilities for project implementation and is also ready to finance the intended project. The government, through the Ministry of Industry, is then ready, among other things, to support the intended project with an appropriate form of public support.
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