The plant will start production of lithium ion batteries later this year with an initial capacity of 13 gigawatt hours (GWh), to be ramped up to around 40 GWh, enough to power around 500,000 cars a year.
The factory is expected to help create up to 2,000 jobs by 2030, the companies and regional authorities have said.
Taiwan’s ProLogium and China’s Envision AESC have also announced plans to build gigafactories in France’s northern region around the port of Dunkirk, while Renault…
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