{"id":10073,"date":"2023-05-19T16:38:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T14:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/19\/were-going-all-in-how-france-raced-ahead-of-uk-on-electric-car-batteries\/"},"modified":"2023-05-19T16:38:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T14:38:10","slug":"were-going-all-in-how-france-raced-ahead-of-uk-on-electric-car-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/19\/were-going-all-in-how-france-raced-ahead-of-uk-on-electric-car-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re going all in\u2019: how France raced ahead of UK on electric car batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State subsidies and industry backing pull in foreign investment as country creates \u2018Battery Valley\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Forty miles from the coast of Britain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/may\/17\/vauxhall-maker-says-brexit-deal-must-be-renegotiated-or-it-could-shut-uk-plant\">where the government was again told this week that without urgent action it risks losing the electric vehicle race<\/a>, \u201cBattery Valley\u201d is taking shape in northern France.<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Macron\u2019s announcement last week that the Taiwanese battery maker ProLogium had chosen Dunkirk for its first foreign facility brings to four the number of gigafactories planned in a corridor stretching about 60 miles inland from the port.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/may\/19\/france-uk-electric-car-batteries-subsidies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ee0000b20a92ad05d3897b66151cbe7476999418\/0_127_8256_4954\/master\/8256.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8432867edf7f8bd046eea267badcdc7d\" title=\"\u2018We\u2019re going all in\u2019: how France raced ahead of UK on electric car batteries\" \/>State subsidies and industry backing pull in foreign investment as country creates \u2018Battery Valley\u2019<br \/>\nForty miles from the coast of Britain, where the government was again told this week that without urgent action it risks losing the electric vehicle race, \u201cBattery Valley\u201d is taking shape in northern France.<br \/>\nEmmanuel Macron\u2019s announcement last week that the Taiwanese battery maker ProLogium had chosen Dunkirk for its first foreign facility brings to four the number of gigafactories planned in a corridor stretching about 60 miles inland from the port. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State subsidies and industry backing pull in foreign investment as country creates \u2018Battery Valley\u2019 Forty miles from the coast of Britain, where the government was again told this week that without urgent action it risks losing the electric vehicle race, \u201cBattery Valley\u201d is taking shape in northern France. Emmanuel Macron\u2019s announcement last week that the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/19\/were-going-all-in-how-france-raced-ahead-of-uk-on-electric-car-batteries\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018We\u2019re going all in\u2019: how France raced ahead of UK on electric car batteries<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10073"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}