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Automotive and battery production in Berlin/Brandenburg – globally fair?

Climate, raw material and development policy implications of electric mobility

A discussion paper by BER, PowerShift and VENROB
The US technology group Tesla, the German chemical company BASF and the US battery manufacturer Microvast are currently building new capacities for the production of electric cars and batteries in Brandenburg. These large-scale industrial projects represent the “drive turnaround” in the automotive industry, i.e. the urgently needed switch from the internal combustion engine (petrol, diesel) to electromobility. However, this development also has a large number of implications in terms of raw materials, energy, transport, climate and human rights policy on the ground and in countries in the Global South. Can the local and regional production of electric cars function fairly on a global scale? And what options are there for development policy actors?

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