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Verkor was founded in July 2020 by six people from the energy, automotive and mobility industries, with one goal in mind: to create more environmentally sustainable mobility by manufacturing low-carbon batteries. Strength in our values  Working…

After another year packed with bold milestones and outstanding achievements — new partnerships, announcements, progress in the construction of the Verkor Innovation Centre, a fast-expanding team — all of us at Verkor are proud to celebrate…

Electric vehicles (EV) are now a reality in the European automotive market with a share expected to reach 50% by 2030. The storage capacity of their batteries, the EV's core component, will play an important role…

By EIT InnoEnergy, Northvolt, ACC and Verkor   We take note of the progress on battery regulation in both the EU Parliament last week and the Council of the EU today. We call for speedy adoption of the final regulation…

Verkor was born of a shared ambition to develop the mobility of tomorrow with a strong conviction that Europe has the key assets to meet the challenge. To achieve its goal, Verkor will build the world’s…

Given its centrality to the energy transition, the expansion of the electric vehicle market will require significant use of raw materials, particularly in the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries. This growth must be accompanied by special attention…

Historically, electric vehicles were equipped with lead-acid batteries.1 In the 1990s, nickel-cadmium (NiCd) batteries dominated the market, but these were phased out due to the toxicity of cadmium, giving way to nickel-metal-hydride (NiMH) batteries in the 2000s.…

Electric batteries constitute the core technology for decarbonising transport and powering the growth of the electric vehicle market. The European Commission estimates that over the next four years battery industries in the European Union could employ up to 800,000 people, with 150,000 of those in France.  Skills…

At Verkor, we truly believe that human capital is our most valuable asset. Our team consists of over 100 professionals from 19 different countries who are uniting their interdisciplinary skills to power tomorrow’s mobility solutions. Learn…

Vehicle electrification is going mainstream. The roll-out of charging networks needs to keep pace with the growth of the electric vehicle (EV) market to meet both primary and long-distance charging needs. What will it take to…

  Verkor has struck a chord in Europe given the current context where local, economic, and environmental concerns are more intertwined than they have ever been. Let’s look at how this aspirational, revolutionary and flagship identity came to be. In a global context of…

Could European battery manufacturers be held up by access to technology?  There is no denying that when it comes to Li-ion battery cells Asia is the dominant market, with lead manufacturers hailing from China, Japan, and…

In 2019, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to the pioneers of the lithium‑ion battery (Li-ion). Since Sony introduced it to the market in the early 1990s, this core component of the energy transition has…

“Our transformation will be fast, unprecedented, and bigger than anything the industry has seen in the past century”, announced Herbert Diess, CEO of Volkswagen at its Power Day event on 15 March during which the group presented…

e‑Mobility has won the race”. It was with this statement that CEO Herbert Diess opened Volkswagen’s Power Day on 15 March, following close in the tracks of Tesla’s Battery Day. The German group also presented its…

Much has been said and written about lithium-ion (li-ion) batteries and their recycling, to the point of taking this industrial and technical topic into the political and public arena. In this article we take a step…