Western battery start-ups are turning to underused production lines in Asia to scale up their operations, taking advantage of the idle capacity left by aggressive investment in electric vehicle batteries.
西方电池初创企业正借助亚洲闲置生产线来扩大业务，利用该地区因在电动汽车电池领域大举投资而形成的闲置产能。
Altris, a Swedish maker of sodium-ion battery materials, said it was in talks with a Chinese battery manufacturer to lease an idle lithium-ion production line and convert it to make sodium-ion batteries for energy storage.
瑞典钠离子电池材料生产商Altris表示，其正与一家中国电池生产商洽谈有关租赁一条闲置锂离子电池生产线的事宜，拟改造后用于生产钠离子储能电池。
Christer Bergquist, Altris’s chief executive, said the company was also exploring whether it could use other European suppliers with overcapacity.
Altris首席执行官克里斯特•伯奎斯特(Christer Bergquist)表示，该公司也在探讨是否能利用其他存在过剩产能的欧洲供应商。