"Completely crazy": Euro carmakers struggle with cell-to-body move

China has moved away from the heavy battery box, but European makers aren’t finding it so easy

European car makers are struggling to move forward with a key improvement to their EV construction, in a situation that a key supplier has called “completely crazy” and a “mess”.

Cell-to-body construction is a much more efficient way to package the battery in an electric car and has helped Chinese makers including BYD build EVs faster and more cheaply. 

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