Electric Vehicle Markets & Future Breakthroughs in E-Mobility Trends
The Paris Auto Show was held in October 2022.
French President Emmanuel Macron attended the event, speaking with CEOs from Renault Group, Stellantis and others, about the developments in he Electric Vehicles (EV) market. One of the other standout moments of the 2022 Paris Auto Show was how Chinese EVs stole the show. Watch this video segment of the event about BYD’s latest EV for the European market.
Significantly, during the time of the Paris Auto Show, there was a deal made by a French lithium miner, Imerys, to develop a new mine located in Beauvoir, France. This mining project aims to make France one of the European Union’s (EU) top lithium suppliers under the backdrop of increasingly higher demand for EU domestic production of EVs.
The significance of this announcement comes during a time of higher geopolitical tensions with China and Russia over global commodities, raw materials supply chains and the effects from sanctions on industrial policies during the conflict in Ukraine.
On 24 October 2022, an announcement was made by the CEO of Imerys, Alessandro Dazza, to officially launch the “Exploitation de Mica LIthinifère par Imerys” (EMILI) which is a project concering the production standards for the Beauvoir lithium mine. According to the press…
