If the object was present on the table since the beginning of the interview, Emmanuel Macron expressly exposed it only a few minutes later. Guest of the 20h of TF1 Monday evening, the President of the Republic was pleased to have attracted, this year, "a record number of foreign investments" in France, during the Choose France summit: "13 billion euros invested and more than 8,000 jobs." "Three-quarters of these investments and jobs they are outside Paris," said the head of state. It was then that Emmanuel Macron seized an orange element framed in his hands: "I was in Dunkirk on Friday. You see? It is for this small electric battery made by Prologium, and it is 5.2 billion euros of investments that will be made in Dunkirk and it is 3000 jobs just for this investment. "
Last week, the tenant of the Élysée Palace ended a sequence on the reindustrialization of the France, during a visit to a factory in the North, one of the territories that has suffered the most, in recent decades, from the economic difficulties that the country has experienced. On this occasion, the Taiwanese ProLogium announced the establishment of a large battery factory in Dunkirk. And investments of €5.2 billion by 2030, reaching an annual production capacity of 48 GWh. If production is to start in 2026, the company promises 3000,12 jobs at the site in question and 000,2030 indirect jobs throughout the country by <>.
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These new solid state batteries will solve them, shorten the charging time, lighten the weight of the vehicle and reduce costs, "said a few days ago the CEO of ProLogium Vincent Yang. And this is no coincidence: car manufacturers, customers of the company, such as Stellantis, Renault and Toyota have already set up their factories in the North. Shortly after, Emmanuel Macron announced an investment of 1.5 billion euros from China's XTV and France's Orano. Amounts that allow the president to boast on TF1 the benefits of his industrial policy: "Investors see the strength of what we have done, consistency.
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