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The electric vehicle boom in a quiet Hungarian town

The country is becoming a surprise hub of Europe’s new battery industry. But critics fear becoming too dependent on China

Sándor Máriás still remembers the Soviet fighter jets that kept him up all night as a child. He grew up during the Communist era on a small farm next to a military air base outside Debrecen, in eastern Hungary. Their family home was 300 metres from the runway.

“The jets’ roar was deafening especially when they practised touch-and-go manoeuvres,” he recalls.

His family was one of a handful that the Communist authorities allowed to keep their farm at a time of mandatory co-operatives. After the regime collapsed in 1989, the others all sold their land, but Máriás held out. That was until a wave of green technology started to wash over Debrecen.

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