BMW will power its electric vehicles from 2025 with a new cell design, made across 6 factories with help from Chinese battery companies CATL and Eve Energy. Four of these factories will be situated in Europe and China, while BMW is looking for partners to develop 2 factories in North America now that US EV subsidies will become dependent on US manufacturing and raw material sourcing from the region. BMW has signaled interest in signing contracts for up to 20GW of battery production at each of these plants, while it doesn’t specify exactly how many batteries it is ordering. Although it meets the spec, this is NOT the CATL Qilin battery design. That is a flat prismatic design and this…