Does Europe have the tools it needs to quit importing batteries?

Batteries will be crucial to Europe’s aggressive clean energy transition plans, and a crucial component for Europe’s strategically important automotive industry as we leave the age of the internal combustion engine to rust. Bringing that battery production into Europe would increase security of supply, create efficiencies, bring employment and opportunity, and offer closer control over environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors throughout the supply chain.

It is certainly a desirable future. But is it a realistic one?

To find out, read this article by Bo Normark, Industrial Strategy Executive, EIT InnoEnergy, in EM Magazine.