France opens its first electric car battery factory
Europe is racing to step up its production of batteries and electric vehicles as the European Union has set a 2035 deadline to phase out the sale of new fossil fuel cars.
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Europe is racing to step up its production of batteries and electric vehicles as the European Union has set a 2035 deadline to phase out the sale of new fossil fuel cars.
The plant in Billy-Berclau is the first in a clutch of factories that are due to open over the next three years in a northern corridor billed as a "Battery Valley" for the rapidly growing industry
France opens its first electric car battery factory
The "gigafactory" in northern France will be among the first plants in Europe to make batteries for electric cars, a sector traditionally dominated by China.
It is part of Emmanuel Macron’s plans to reindustrialise the country