On Thursday 30 November, the European Commission announced that it had communicated its objections to car starter battery manufacturers Banner, Clarios (formerly JC Autobatterie), Exide, FET (and its predecessor Elettra) and Rombat, as well as to trade association Eurobat and its service provider Kellen. The European Commission has a preliminary suspicion that these companies engaged in a cartel, between 2004 and 2017, aimed at artificially raising the prices of starter batteries sold to...