Verkor is a French industrial company aiming to pioneer low-carbon battery manufacturing in France. With the backing of prominent industrial companies such as Renault Group, Plastic Omnium and Schneider Electric, Verkor intends to electrify the future of European mobility.

With over 350 experts from 38 different countries, our endeavor is to unite exceptional global talent to bring this ambitious and innovative project to life. Our strong and agile international team continues to grow and adapt to new challenges. Based in Grenoble (France), we have recently started operations our Verkor Innovation Centre (R&D centre and 4.0 pilot line).

We now focus on building the world’s most modern and efficient Gigafactory in Dunkirk (France). With this facility, our ambition is an initial annual production of 16 Gwh of lithium-ion batteries by 2025, thus powering 300,000 electric vehicles annually.

In joining us you will actively participate in this breathtaking industrial adventure to shape the future of European mobility.

With the advent of "Gigafactory" to produce European made batteries, the question is already being raised in the community if laboratories are ready to create new battery technologies (low TRL) that will meet the needs for the large-scale development of the electric vehicle and storage application. Regarding E-mobility, the main challenge remains the development of high energy density and high-power batteries, while storage can be provided by less expensive batteries or from second life batteries. The societal challenges are therefore multiple because it is necessary to rapidly create new generations of batteries enabling i) fast charge rates, ii) an energy density approaching the one provided by gasoline vehicles, and iii) while ensuring an end-of-life strategy for these batteries (recycling and second life). Lithium metal could answer many of these questions on its own such as high energy density, recycling, but so far lithium suffers from very slow kinetics due to the formation of dendrites during charges / discharges. Replacing Li metal with host materials allows the development of safer Li-ion batteries that become limited by relatively slow charge rates and limited energy densities. Here, we propose to tackle this last bottleneck issue by engineering high power batteries using novel liquid electrolyte