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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jon Henley

‘We’re going all in’: how France raced ahead of UK on electric car batteries

Emmanuel Macron visiting the Aluminium Dunkerque factory in Dunkirk
Emmanuel Macron visiting the Aluminium Dunkerque factory in Dunkirk, the city picked by the Taiwanese company ProLogium to build a battery gigafactory plant. Photograph: Witt Jacques/ABACA/Shutterstock

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, “Battery Valley” is taking shape in northern France.

Emmanuel Macron’s 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.

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