In a tally of battery suppliers published by Bloomberg New Energy Finance in its Electric Vehicle Outlook 2018, Panasonic – which provides the cells for Tesla’s electric vehicles (EVs) – has perhaps unsurprisingly come out on top, based on capacity in 2016-17.
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