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Comment by koenneker

The Term gigafactory is doing the heavy lifting in this sentence. There are a lot of smaller scale operations that do design, development and assembly in Europe like Varta Microbattery[1]. They provide a lot of the batteries used in the modern wireless earbuds like the airpods pro[2] and also some of the Samsung galaxy buds[3].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VARTA

[2]https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/AirPods+Pro+Teardown/127551 look at step 8

[3]mentioned in the same article and step as the Airpods above

parent koenneker 4 years ago

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