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Volkswagen sells 49% of Spanish battery plant to Chinese Gotion

Rank
Ran
25h
Updated
6d ago
Final
Outlets
10
Regions
2
Countries
5
Languages
4

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La Vanguardia Spain · Spanish 28 Sept, 13:59 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Deutsch (2) · Čeština (1) · Română (1) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 10 after 26 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: La Vanguardia, 28 Sept, 13:59 UTC.
  2. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 28 Sept, 13:59 UTC.
  3. Second country: Germany, with Frankfurter Allgemeine.
  4. Second region: Americas, with Infobae.
  5. Last article: 10 outlets.

Where it travelled

27 of 27 hours

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The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

90%

  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 10%
  • Europe 9 outlets · 4 countries · 90%

First movers

  1. La Vanguardia 28 Sept, 13:59 UTC
  2. El País +21m
  3. elDiario.es +54m
  4. Frankfurter Allgemeine +1h 8m
  5. El Mundo +2h 34m

Last to join

  1. Seznam Zprávy 29 Sept, 16:00 UTC
  2. G4Media 29 Sept, 08:07 UTC
  3. Infobae 28 Sept, 17:47 UTC
  4. ABC 28 Sept, 17:34 UTC
  5. Süddeutsche Zeitung 28 Sept, 17:08 UTC

The figures

Coverage
10 outlets in 5 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 10 outlets, 10 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: Argentina. Europe 4: Czechia, Germany, Romania, Spain. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Czech, German, Spanish, Romanian.
Timeline
Earliest article La Vanguardia, 28 Sept 2026, 13:59 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 14:30 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 16:00 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Europe, Spain. Topic Business & economy. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
28 Sept 2026 311 3.39 8 3 8 3 3.3
29 Sept 2026 289 4.25 10 5 2 2 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 14:30 UTC · Updated 29 Sept, 16:00 UTC

Covered by 10 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

  • Infobae Argentina 28 Sept, 17:47 UTC
    Volkswagen y la china Gotion se alían para operar la gigafactoría de España desde 2027

Europe 9 outlets

  • Seznam Zprávy Czechia 29 Sept, 16:00 UTC
    Kdo pomůže s omezením závislosti na Číně? Číňané, věří Volkswagen
  • G4Media Romania 29 Sept, 08:07 UTC
    Investiție de 1,1 miliarde de euro a grupului chinez Gotion în fabrica de baterii a Volkswagen din Valencia
  • ABC Spain 28 Sept, 17:34 UTC
    Volkswagen vende a la china Gotion el 49% de la gigafactoría de Sagunto por 1.100 millones
  • Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany 28 Sept, 17:08 UTC
    Elektromobilität: Chinesischer Batteriepartner kommt für VW-Partnerschaft nach Europa
  • El Mundo Spain 28 Sept, 16:33 UTC
    La china Gotion adquiere el 49% de la gigafactoría de Volkswagen en Sagunto por 1.100 millones de euros
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Germany 28 Sept, 15:07 UTC
    Zellfabrik in Spanien: VW weitet Kooperation mit Chinesen für Batteriezellen aus
  • elDiario.es Spain 28 Sept, 14:52 UTC
    Volkswagen vende el 49% de la gigafactoría de baterías de Sagunt a la china Gotion por 1.100 millones
  • El País Spain 28 Sept, 14:20 UTC
    La china Gotion compra el 49% de la planta de baterías de Volkswagen en Sagunto por 1.100 millones
  • La Vanguardia Spain 28 Sept, 13:59 UTC
    Volkswagen, PowerCo y Gotion se alían para operar la gigafactoría de Sagunto
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