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UK battery ‘gigafactory’ plans huge expansion as electric car demand soars
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The Chinese owner of the UK’s only large-scale battery factory has revealed plans for a massive expansion that will put the plant in Sunderland among the biggest electric vehicle facilities in Europe.
Envision said annual capacity at the plant would eventually rise to 38 gigawatt hours (GWh), an increase from a previous plan of 11GWh that was announced in July as part of a supply deal for Japanese carmaker Nissan’s Sunderland plant.
Battery companies are investing billions of pounds around the world in new facilities as they race to match the accelerating demand for electric vehicles.
Lei Zhang, the chief executive of Envision, said the Shanghai-based company was in talks with global carmakers about using the Sunderland plant, and another in
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