Daimler and Ningde signed an electric vehicle battery supply contract

According to foreign media reports, on May 2, local time, Sabine Angermann, head of procurement for Daimler Group, said that Daimler Group has signed a contract with the Ningde Times New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. (CATL), and the Ningde era has obtained Daimler. The opportunity to provide electric car batteries.

At a news conference in Stuttgart, Germany, Angermann spoke about the source of raw materials for Daimler electric car batteries, but declined to give more details about the contract supply and whether the Ningde era also provided batteries for overseas Mercedes-Benz cars.

The veteran car company Daimler has become a dominant player in the First-half fuel car race. In the second half of the transformation of the global car industry, especially in the battlefield of China's new energy vehicles, Daimler will start new competition with the world's old and new car companies.

Daimler reiterated that the group had joined the Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI), a project set up by the China Minmetals Export-Import Chamber of Commerce to address risks to the cobalt supply chain from artisanal mining. Cobalt is an important material for the production of powered batteries for vehicles. According to the initiative, cobalt consumers must ensure that the cobalt they use is not produced by child workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which accounts for 60 tons of cobalt resources in the world. What? According to Amnesty International, one fifth of the world's cobalt production comes from informal mining, including child labor, and its production environment is often in danger. A Daimler spokesman said the car was another step in addressing the social and environmental risks of the cobalt supply chain by joining the RCI. Not only has the transparency of work increased and the capacity for governance improved, but the risks associated with child labour have also been eliminated.

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