Chinese-Moroccan Joint Venture Inaugurates EV Battery Parts Plant

Aerial view of the new Sino-Moroccan company COBCO that began production on June 25, 2025 at a plant for lithium-ion battery components in Jorf Lasfar, 125 kilometers south of Casablanca. Image via COBCO.

A Chinese-Moroccan joint venture announced on Wednesday the inauguration of a new factory for electric car battery components, the first of its kind in the North African country.

The complex will ultimately have a production “capacity equivalent to 70 GWh per year, enough to equip nearly one million electric vehicles annually”, according to operator Cobco, a joint venture between the Moroccan royal family’s holding company Al Mada and the Chinese firm CNGR Advanced Materials.

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by Agence France-Presse

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