Despite Ford just announcing it will work with CATL LFP technology in the US market, this week it has firmed up European plans with LG Energy solution and local Turkish businesses to build a factory for EV batteries in what it describes as the “wider European region.” Alongside Turkish company Koç Holdings, a local industrial and services group, LGES and FORD have signed a non-binding MOU to build one of the largest commercial electric vehicle battery cell production facilities in Europe. If this sounds vaguely familiar, an identical deal was announced last February with SK-On, another Korea firm, which went soft on the deal last March, saying that it was worried about the current economic conditions. It looks like LG…