{"id":130334,"date":"2025-05-25T09:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T09:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/130334\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T09:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T09:48:08","slug":"job-creator-or-industry-killer-europes-ev-sector-faces-chinese-investment-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/130334\/","title":{"rendered":"Job creator or industry killer? Europe\u2019s EV sector faces Chinese investment dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eyebrows raised and brow furrowed into a puzzled smile, French President Emmanuel Macron held a model of a cleanly sculpted, sheer white truck. To his left, Wen Han, a 35-year-old Chinese entrepreneur, beamed through thick, black-rimmed glasses.<\/p>\n

In Macron\u2019s hand was a miniature Windrose electric lorry<\/a>, its sleek, forward-leaning nose and central driving position evoking science fiction more than the gritty world of road haulage.<\/p>\n

The Chinese company, founded by Han just three years ago, announced this week that it would build a \u20ac175 million (US$199 million) factory in northern France. Bigger investments and flashier names came to last week\u2019s Choose France summit, but few were set against a geoeconomic backdrop as charged as Windrose Technology\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The European Union is locked in a trade dispute with China over electric vehicles<\/a>. It is also wrestling with whether and how to harness Chinese investment in the sector. Around the continent, a debate is being waged on whether China\u2019s prowess in the sector can be a job creator or an industry killer.<\/p>\n

Han is certain it is the former.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe told me he wants me to bring the whole ecosystem to France,\u201d Han said in an interview, when asked what Macron told him.<\/p>\n

Although only 30 Windrose trucks are on the roads worldwide, Han is ambitious. He wants to make 4,000 of them a year in France from 2027 and is eyeing an American plant too. He is already planning to float Windrose on a US stock exchange and told Macron he would like a secondary listing in France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eyebrows raised and brow furrowed into a puzzled smile, French President Emmanuel Macron held a model of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[57485,57495,35244,57484,57486,57474,57493,1550,57478,57494,57488,57480,57472,57469,43724,34,57476,2000,299,5187,2557,12726,24287,36,34982,57487,42651,57479,57471,57470,57483,57473,57481,1411,57492,57482,37992,57490,57475,298,2186,978,57491,57489,57477,57468,1773],"class_list":["post-130334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-alteo","tag-antwerp","tag-asia-society-policy-institute","tag-battery-valley","tag-belgian-border","tag-blackstone-group","tag-brussels-airport","tag-byd","tag-calb","tag-choose-france-summit","tag-douai","tag-dunkirk","tag-electric-lorry","tag-electric-truck","tag-electric-vehicle","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-envision","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-commission","tag-ev","tag-eve","tag-france","tag-french","tag-institut-montaigne","tag-jorge-toledo","tag-le-monde","tag-lorries","tag-lorry","tag-mathieu-duchatel","tag-northvolt","tag-onnaing","tag-paris","tag-philippe-le-corre","tag-prologium","tag-renault","tag-stella-li","tag-stephen-schwarzman","tag-tesla","tag-toyota","tag-us","tag-w-scope","tag-wen-han","tag-windrose","tag-windrose-technology","tag-xi-jinping"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}