EU battery strategy must shift from policy to factory implementation to stay competitive, industry leader warns

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This article features an interview with Alain Coheur, president of the Consultative Commission on Industrial Change (CCMI), who argues that Europe's battery strategy must move from policy design to actual factory implementation to remain competitive. Coheur warns that while the EU has strong political ambitions for battery production to support the clean transition and reduce strategic dependencies, the bloc faces challenges in parallel development of research, investment, supply chains, and skills. He discusses the potential of sodium-ion batteries as an alternative for Europe and emphasizes that batteries have become a critical benchmark for the EU's ability to turn political ambition into industrial capacity.

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