Late last week Tesla secured approvals to begin EV production at a new plant outside of Berlin,Germany, which will have capacity to make 500,000 vehicles a year once fully operational.

MAN Energy Solutions, a German manufacturer of engines, turbines and associated machinery engines and gas turbines owned by Volkswagen, has unveiled plans to invest up to €500m ($555m) to transform its H-TEC Systems subsidiary into “a mass-producer of PEM [polymer electrolyte membrane] electrolysers as quickly as possible”.