EU plans to manufacture battery cells for 7 million electric vehicles by 2025, newspaper says

BERLIN – The European Union aims to produce battery cells for at least 7 million electric cars per year by 2025, German and French economy ministers and a senior EU official wrote in an article in the business daily Handelsblatt.

As part of its plan to become climate neutral by 2050, the EU wants to boost local production of battery cells to power clean vehicles without depending on imports, especially from China.

Recently, the EU has made “giant strides” in the development of the industry, said Peter Altmaier, Bruno Le Maire and European Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic in a joint article to be published in Friday’s edition of the newspaper.

The EU is thus “in a position to build greater economic sovereignty and greater independence in a strategically important industry,” they wrote.

The EU is building large-scale battery cell factories. In November, Sefcovic said by 2025, planned European facilities would produce cells to power at least 6 million electric vehicles.