Battery Plant Northern Tender

Scope To Build Battery Plant in Northern France Taiwanese battery maker ProLogium will invest billions of dollars in building a new factory in northern France for its first European plant.The group hopes to start production at the end of 2026 and ramp up over several years until it has some 3000 employees in the factory.It will invest 5.2 billion euros 5.7 billion in Dunkirk by 2030 and produce batteries for hundreds of thousands of cars there once at full capacity.The group specialises in the development of solid-state batteries which are considered more powerful safer and quicker to charge than the lithium-ion cells often used in electric vehicles.The plant will also contribute 12000 indirect jobs in the region.