Luca De Meo, president of the car industry body and CEO of Renault, said during a news conference that only 5% of the raw materials needed for battery production would be sourced in Europe by 2030.

He added that this posed some risks as the costs of raw material were something the industry could not control.

(Reporting by Marine Strauss and Gilles Guillaume: Writing by Benoit Van Overstraeten; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)