With closest rivals BMW and Daimler forming industry alliances to help further the development of batteries and other electrical energy storage technologies for use in cars, it appears Audi too is getting in on the action, today announcing a new joint-research project of its own. Dubbed “eProduction”, the new project, which is being sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), is aimed at generating expertise in the assembly of batteries for use in electric cars.
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