2023 ended with the news that Czech officials had failed to lure Volkswagen to build a car battery factory near Pilsen had ended in failure. Poor site preparation and the country’s antiquated planning process lay behind the fiasco. Meanwhile, the last big news item of the year in Hungary was the decision by BYD to build its first major European car factory in Szeged. In September, the Chinese EV giant grabbed the headlines at the Munich auto show, putting . . .
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