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Inobat, a battery supplier based in Slovakia, receives multi-million-euro investment from American group

Inobat Auto, a “premium battery technology and manufacturing company”, has received a €10 million (£8.35m) investment from Ideanomics, an American EV group that specialises in commercial fleet operations.

The deal values Inobat at the mid-hundreds of millions of pounds.

The Ideanomics cash injection follows similar deals that mining conglomerate Rio Tinto and Indian battery group Amara Raja made with Inobat late last year.

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The news comes as Ideanomics seeks to derisk its battery supply chain across its mobility companies.

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