{"id":1123,"date":"2026-03-31T16:55:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/1123\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:55:21","slug":"france-attracts-taiwan-ev-battery-maker-looks-for-others-to-set-up-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/1123\/","title":{"rendered":"France attracts Taiwan EV battery maker, looks for others to set up shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/automobiles\/electric-vehicles\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Electric vehicles<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Pivot from self-reliance follows failure of Swedish, UK counterparts<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/9.jpeg\" alt=\"20260331N France groundbreaking\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Taiwanese battery startup ProLogium Technology breaks ground at a new battery plant in Dunkirk, France, on Feb. 10. (Photo by Madoka Kitamatsu)<\/p>\n<p>MADOKA KITAMATSU and EIKI HAYASHI<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; France has stepped up efforts to attract electric vehicle battery makers, including subsidizing a Taiwan startup&#8217;s factory, with an eye on\u00a0bolstering economic security amid the failure of\u00a0European producers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Electric vehicles Pivot from self-reliance follows failure of Swedish, UK counterparts Taiwanese battery startup ProLogium Technology breaks ground&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1098,1101,1100,5,1103,1102,1104,1105,1106,1099],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-attracts","tag-battery","tag-ev","tag-france","tag-looks","tag-maker","tag-others","tag-set","tag-shop","tag-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}