Reindustrialisation: at the heart of the first battery gigafactory in Douvrin

2023-05-30 20:14:42

“In the North, it was the settlements”, says the song. The mine. Today only the slag heaps remain. But the time has come of renewed pride, hope the industrialists, the public authorities and the inhabitants of the mining area. This Tuesday, Stellantis, Mercedes-Benz and TotalEnergies, via its subsidiary Saft, inaugurated, in Douvrin (Pas-de-Calais), the giant factory of Automotive Cells Company (ACC), which manufactures batteries for electric vehicles , in the presence of Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy, and Agnès Pannier Runacher, Minister of Energy Transition, as well as representatives of the German and Italian governments whose countries will eventually host a similar site.