Ampere, the European intelligent EV pure player born from the Renault group, announced a battery plan integrating LFP (Lithium Iron Phosphate) technology alongside the NCM (Nickel Cobalt Manganese) batteries currently used by Renault Group.

Ampere is working with its suppliers LG Energy Solution and CATL to set up an integrated value chain on the European continent, to ensure the best competitiveness of LFP technology for its vehicles manufactured in Europe. These two partners will provide Ampere with LFP batteries that will equip several models of Renault and Alpine brands and will cover battery needs for this technology until 2030.

Ampere’s teams also lead with LG Energy Solution the development of Cell-to-Pack technology. This is a first for pouch-type batteries. It improves the range of vehicles by integrating more cells, and therefore more on-board energy, in a given space. Cell-to-pack technology—which removes the battery modules and integrates the cell directly into the case—also helps reduce battery costs.

The integration of LFP and Cell-to-Pack technologies will enable Ampere to reduce by around 20% the cost of batteries in its vehicles from beginning of 2026.

With four leading battery partners, Ampere is accelerating in a fast-changing environment, and demonstrates the efficiency of its horizontal approach:

• AESC located within Ampere ElectriCity hub, in Douai (France), for NCM batteries.

• CATL for LFP technology, from its plant in Hungary.

• LGES for both NCM and LFP batteries, built in its plant in Poland.

• Verkor for NCM technology, from its gigafactory based in Dunkerque (France).

• Batteries are assembled at Ampere ElectriCity (France), in the Assembly Battery Shop of Douai Manufacture.

Due to progress made in LFP technology over the past few years and the development of the value chain in Europe, LFP technology is now a real alternative to NCM. Less energy-intensive than NCM, it is perfectly suited to certain applications, such as small and midsize cars. Less expensive, it is an important part of the economic equation for affordable electric vehicles and their democratization in Europe.

The first models will be equipped with LFP Technology from early 2026.