Europe Needs a Reset to Retain Electric Vehicle Battery Relevance
The region’s best chance at being competitive is striking more partnerships with China’s top manufacturers.
An employee shows a battery at the Automotive Cells Company factory in Douvrin, northern France.
Photographer: Denis Charlet/AFP via Getty Images
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Europe must address the dominance of China’s BYD and CATL if it wants to stay relevant in battery manufacturing. With efforts to build a homegrown industry stumbling, the region’s best chance is allowing more partnerships with leading Chinese manufacturers — but it needs to redesign trade and subsidy policies to make that happen.