“Our investment will make Europe independent of Asian suppliers and enable battery production without the need to import key materials,” said Ascend Elements.
“Our investment will make Europe independent of Asian suppliers and enable battery production without the need to import key materials,” said Ascend Elements.
The scheme offers up to 40,000 zloty (roughly €9,500) per vehicle.
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Just 0.2% of cars in Poland are fully electric.
It will invest between 160 and 208 million zloty (€37-48 million) in the plant, which is expected to employ 350 people.
Despite initial plans for the first cars to be produced in 2023, a factory site has not yet even been secured.
The value of Poland’s exports in the battery sector increased from around 1 billion zloty in 2017 to 38.6 billion zloty (€8.24 billion) in 2022.
The Izera project to create Poland’s first home-grown electric cars has been hit by delays.
The facility, which will produce copper foil used in electric-car batteries, will become SK Nexilis’s “European hub”.