VW Pulls Back Curtain on New Electric-Car Battery Lab in Germany
A test chamber with button and PAT cells inside Volkswagen's new battery laboratory in Salzgitter, Germany.
Volkswagen AGWelcome to the Hyperdrive daily briefing, decoding the revolution reshaping the auto world, from EVs to self-driving cars and beyond.
In 1950, Salzgitter was at the crossroads. Allied forces had ordered that the German city’s industrial plants be destroyed as part of a push to demilitarize the country after World War II. But Salzgitter’s steel workers, desperate for jobs, rose up and occupied the blast furnaces. Their protests put a stop to the industrial dismantling, which city dwellers still remember as a sort of second birthday.