The VoiCEE podcast: Poland’s booming battery industry threatened by proposed EU emission rules

In this episode, Agnieszka Wądołowska, deputy editor-in-chief at Notes from Poland, speaks with the outlet’s senior editor, Alicja Ptak, about her newly published report on how Poland’s position as Europe’s leading producer of lithium-ion batteries is being threatened by proposed new EU emissions rules.

They discuss what has made Poland and the Central and Eastern Europe region so attractive to battery manufacturers and how that would change with the planned EU regulations. They also speak about heated detabes the issue stirred during the recent New Mobility Congress in Łódź.

Poland is Europe’s leading producer of lithium-ion batteries and second globally, behind only China.

But the industry’s future is in question as the EU considers tougher emissions rules that could hit Poland’s coal-dependent economy, writes @AlicjaPtak4 https://t.co/HNnB6Xrmzq

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Agnieszka Wądołowska is deputy editor of Notes from Poland. She has previously worked for Gazeta.pl and Tokfm.pl and contributed to Gazeta Wyborcza, Wysokie Obcasy, Duży Format, Midrasz and Kultura Liberalna