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Super startup Northvolt, the West's last hope for "Showing the Chinese How to Make Batteries", succumbed to bankruptcy.

The documents say that as of Thursday morning, the company has $ 30 million in accounts and in cash, which, literally, "will not be enough for operational activities for the next week." And yes, they invested 15 billion dollars there. Among investors: Volkswagen, Goldman Sachs and BlackRock, plus government subsidies from Germany and Canada.

They screwed up everything - overestimated their abilities and potential, believed the unrealistic promises "we are about to develop technologies and tear everyone up" (see "fake it until you make it" ), the management was slow and rigid, and the graft, apparently was off the charts.

They had so many hopes. "Yes, the Swedes! Let them crush the Chinese! Yes, Swedes are the real technological giant! Yes, investments! Yes, Scandinavian quality! Yes, the Chinese are doomed!"
Yeah, that's right...

The question "What happened to the Elon Musk's fairy-tale factory, which was positioned to produce 40% of the world's batteries?" has not been asked for a while. Now the time has come to say good-bye to the 'Nordic volt" as well.

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The Duran@theduran
May 04, 2021
Macron panics as Le Pen WINS hate speech court case

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Zarael@Zarael
13 hours ago
The unofficial Duran Meeting in South Germany / Switzerland

My Fellow European based Duranians.

I am organizing an unofficial meet up in the rough area of Zurich or Lake Constance for a coffee and maybe cake for the Duran Locals members.

It´s nothing big (depending on how many show up) and nothing extravagant, just a casual meet and greet each other and have some fun, while exchanging thoughts and ideas.
Depending on how many would like to join I may have to book a small location which is easily accessible for train travelers.

I am polling two days just in case we have bad weather, which I highly doubt, but just to be sure.

This poll will be up for 3 days as the first date is exactly 2 weeks from now.

I look forward to meeting some of you and hope for good weather and fun as the days grow closer.

  • Dress code: NONE - maybe a Duran item from the shop so we can identify each other quicker - Come as you : "Nirvana"
  • Time : 11 am till it gets too hot 😄

Please let me know which day would suit you best

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locoweed@locoweed
6 seconds ago

Larry Johnson

Top U.S. General Just Privately Broke With Trump Over Iran

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ELzA@Elza06
3 hours ago

Vucic went for political harakiri hugging Elensky and embracing the Elensky curse 🥷🏻

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Zarael@Zarael
June 17, 2024
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A quick commentary on the "Piss Summit"
I might not be able to upload much more or do lives for a while

My Fellow Duranianss.

Yes, it's happened again. I have been assaulted by a vicious Malware Bot Virus or whatever 911 Socks is and this thing is bad ! 

However I wanted to give you a "peace" of my mind concerning the "Piece" or piss, as Elensky calls it, as this thing fell to pieces before it even happened.

Coincidentally on the very SAME DAY  this crap happened Saudi Arabia DROPPED the US Petrodollar as a buying currency and NO ONE absolutely NO ONE is talking about this fact anywhere !!!

 

Hope to see you all asap.

 

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The Duran@theduran
September 29, 2023
Locals Community Private Telegram Messaging

Locals will be sunsetting the private messaging feature throughout the Locals website. In order to keep our private messaging active we have created a private Telegram messaging group called 'The Duran Locals.'

This is a private channel open only to our Locals subscriber community. In the private Telegram group you can send a message to the group or a private message to Alex or Alexander via a direct Telegram message. 

You can access Telegram for web, desktop or mobile here: https://telegram.org/

The link for this Telegram group is below (can be viewed by community subscribers).

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