It was May 12, 2023. Four days earlier than 6e Summit Choose France in Versailles, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, went to Dunkirk (North) to announce the excellent news: the Taiwanese group Prologium had chosen France, with the assistance of the Consulting Consulting Accuracy, to construct a Gigafactory – an enormous manufacturing unit – of batteries for electrical automobiles. Total funding: 5.2 billion euros, by 2030. Public help: 1.4 billion euros. “A determining advantage for the choice of location”then acknowledged the boss France of Prologium, Gilles Normand, who has left the group since. The United States, on the similar time, provided international buyers to supply vital assist to the battery produced, however to not the preliminary funding.
In phrases of jobs, the promise was additionally exceptional: 3,000 within the manufacturing unit, 12,000 in whole with oblique jobs. The manufacturing of Prologium batteries was to begin on the finish of 2026. Their expertise, developed by the founding boss, Vincent Yang, can be revolutionary in response to the latter who gladly demonstrated it, a pair of scissors in hand: we are able to bang it, fold, minimize it, with out it ignite or degrade because of the ceramic materials it makes use of.
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