0 Comments CATL, the world’s largest battery supplier for electric vehicles and one of Tesla’s critical suppliers, had an important fire that raged for hours at one of its main Chinese battery factory. Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. (CATL) has emerged as the world’s largest battery cell supplier in the auto industry in the last few years, and it is not even close. The company is also credited as being an important part of the success of Tesla’s Gigafactory Shanghai, which it supplies with LFP battery cells. Gigafactory Shanghai is Tesla’s highest-production EV plant. It’s why many in the industry were concerned when they learned that CATL had an important fire at its Z plant in Ningde, Fujian province, China. The fire broke out at the plant yesterday and it was reportedly large enough that it took hours to control it: A fire broke out at a factory of Chinese battery giant #CATL in Ningde City, Fujian Province, on Sunday afternoon. Later on Sunday, CATL responded that “the fire has been extinguished and there are no casualties.” CATL said the cause of the fire is still under investigation, and… pic.twitter.com/uhIbZYAQBo