Investment up to 6 billion Euros in voltaic car batteries by European association
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At a press
conference with his German counterpart Peter Altmaiers, France's Bruno Le Maire
said a maximum of 1.2 billion euros in public subsidies would be granted to the
association.
Paris: The
French and German finance ministers reported on Thursday,
European governments and companies will form an
association for developing next-generation batteries for electric vehicles,
investing five to six billion euros ($5.6 to $6.7 billion) in the project.
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France's Bruno
Le Maire said a maximum of 1.2 billion euros in public subsidies would be given
to the association, at a press conference with his German counterpart Peter
Altmaier.
"Other member states have already interest
in joining this project," Le Maire confirmed, including Italy, Belgium,
Poland, Austria and Finland.
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He said minimum four billion Euros would granted
from private companies, citing car manufacturer PSA and the French battery
maker Saft, a unit of French oil giant Total.
"Today we
are grasping more interest than ever" in the project, Altmaier said,
adding that 35 companies had already pledged to sign up, including Europe's
biggest car manufacturers.
Political leaders across the European Union have long called for a coordinated
attempt for home-made batteries that would free car manufacturers from having
to rely on Chinese batteries as the industry shifts away from combustion
engines.
A pilot factory with around 200 employees will
be starting in the coming months in France, with an aim of opening two production
sites, in France and Germany, that would create 1,500 jobs at each.
European car manufacturers have been sloping up
voltaic vehicle production after years of scandals over diesel pollution and as
tougher rules on cutting carbon emissions come into force.
But EU car manufacturers buy cells from foreign
manufacturers, mostly in Asia, which they use to assemble the high-capacity
batteries needed to power voltaic vehicles.
Germany and France in particular have been
pushing for a pan-European consortium to develop new battery technologies that
would be built domestically, along the lines of the European aircraft
manufacturer Airbus.